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Low
Water Use Plants
This
is a list of suggestions for plants that do not require
lots of water once established.
Groundcover
or Low Growing
- Acacia
redolens (prostrata)
- Arctotis
- Arctostaphylos
prostrata variety
- Arctotheca
calendula
- Asparagus
springeri
- Baccharis
pilularis
- Carissa ‘Green Carpet’ & prostrate
- Ceanothus
griseus horizontalis
- Ceratostigma
plumbagioides
- Convolvulus
mauritanicus
- Festuca
ovina glauca
- Fragaria
chiloensis
- Gazania
- Ice
Plant Varieties
- Juniper,
several low varieties
- Kalanchoe
puaila
- Lantana,
prostrate or spreading
- Lavendula
- Liriope
- Lonicera
- Myoporum
parvifolium
- Osteospermum
- Rhynchospermum
jasminoides asiaticum
- Rosmarinus
officinal prostrate
- Seedum
varieties
- Verbena
peruviana
Shrubs
- Acacia
varieties
- Agapanthus
- Agave
varieties
- Aloe
varieties
- Alyogyne
huegelii
- Asparagus
varieties
- Aspidistra
- Beaucarnia
recurvata
- Bouganvilla
- Callistemon
- Cassia
- Ceanothus
- Cistus
- Clivia
- Convolvulus
- Coprosma
- Echium
- Escallonia
- Euphorbia
varieties
- Feijoa
- Genista
- Grevillea
varieties
- Hemerocallis
- Ilex
- Juniper
- Lagerstromia
- Leptospermum
- Leucophyllum
texanum
- Ligustrum
texanum
- Morea
or Dietes
- Myrtus
- Nandina
- Nerinbergia
- Nerium ‘Oleander’
- Pittosporum
- Plumbego
capensis
- Photinia
- Prunus
caroliniana
- Pyaracantha
- Raphiolepis
indica
- Rosmarinus
officianlis
- Santolina
- Solanum
rantonetii
- Sollia
hetrophylla
- Statice
perizii/Limonium
- Stretlezia
- Tecomaria
capensis
- Yucca
Trees
- Acacia
- Albizzia
- Arbutus
unedo
- Brachychiton
- Callistemon
- Cedris
deodara
- Eucalyptus
- Fraxinus
- Geijera
parvifolia
- Grevilla
robusta
- Leptospermum
- Meleluca
- Myoporum
- Olea
- Pinus
- Pittosporum
- Podacarpus
- Populus
- Quercus
- Rhus
- Schinus
Vines
- Bignonia & relatives
- Bouganvilla
- Hardenbergia
- Lonicera
- Pyracantha
- Rose
- Wisteria
Palms
- Archontophoenix
- Chamerops
humilis
- Phoenix
varieties
- Trachycarpus
- Washingtonia
When
planning your yard for low water use, the following should
also be seriously considered. Use plenty of Soil Conditioner
and use about 3” Mulch. |
