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Ely, Cambridgeshire, England

Rosemary is a beautiful Mediterranean native to choose for a drought tolerant garden. Choose upright hedge or sprawling ground cover types. For more information about growing rosemary visit GardenZeus.com.

Scenes from the Sherman Oaks Garden Tour 2018 -- For more photos and gardening content, visit A Gardener's Notebook with Douglas E. Welch

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Pink and green spikey flower of the Mulla Mulla plant from Australia

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Scenes from the Sherman Oaks Garden Tour 2018 -- For more photos and gardening content, visit A Gardener's Notebook with Douglas E. Welch

Mimulus aurantiacus; "Sticky Monkey Flower"

Brightly colored flowers in shades of red and orange adorn this and several related Mimulus species that are native to California's chaparral and coastal sage scrub habitats.

Balboa Park, San Diego, California.

March 26, 2010.

Alyogyne, a drought-tolerant member of the Hibiscus Family. Photo by Melanie Martinez

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Close up of a blossom. Lantana's leaves feel like sandpaper, but their blossoms are beautiful and the plant is drought tolerant when established and attracts lots of critters. It's frost tender but if the roots are not killed and if the plant is cut down to near the ground in late winter, it comes back in the spring with vigor.

Rosemary is a beautiful Mediterranean native to choose for a drought tolerant garden. Choose upright hedge or sprawling ground cover types. For more information about growing rosemary visit GardenZeus.com.

Scenes from the Sherman Oaks Garden Tour 2018 -- For more photos and gardening content, visit A Gardener's Notebook with Douglas E. Welch