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The Facts Height: 30′ Spread: 12′ Sun: Full Sun Water: Medium Soil: Well-Drained Growth Rate: Fast This native evergreen makes a dramatic focal point in any sunny location. Its intense powdery blue, scale-like needles that are soft to the touch and upright tight pyramidal form screams from far distances drawing the curious onlooker closer for a more detailed inspection. It produces chocolate brown globular cones. When mature, the exfoliating bark adds in

The Facts Height: 40′ – 50’ Spread: 20′ – 25’ Sun: Full Sun Water: Medium Soil: Well-Drained Growth Rate: Very Slow This highly coveted tree is truly one-of-a-kind. The Blue Atlas Cedar can be found in its natural habit in the Atlas Mountains in northwest Africa. The tree’s silvery blue to bluish-green needles, about 1 1/2” long, can be stiff and clustered. Once it’s started to hit its stride, the Blue Atlas produces barrel-shaped male cones that are about 2-3” long on the l

The Facts Height: 40′ – 60’ Spread: 20′ – 45’ Sun: Full Sun Water: Medium to Wet Soil: Well-Drained Growth Rate: Fast Bald cypress is a long-lived, pyramidal conifer. Although it looks like a needled evergreen (same family as redwoods) in summer, it is deciduous (“bald” as the common name suggests). It is native to southern swamps, bayous and rivers, primarily being found in coastal areas from Maryland to Texas and in the lower Mississippi River valley to a

The Facts Height: Variety Dependent Spread: Variety Dependent Sun: Full Sun Water: Medium Soil: Well Drained Growth Rate: Fast This perennial is tried and true in the hot Oklahoma summer sun. Verbena is a great source of vibrant color for hanging containers, windows boxes and garden beds alike. Reds, pinks, whites and purples pop in the landscape. Like Phlox, Verbena comes in tall and creeping. The majority of the time, though, creeping Verbena is what is found in t

The Facts Height: Variety Dependent Spread: Variety Dependent Sun: Full Sun Water: Medium Soil: Well Drained Growth Rate: Fast Sedum are one of the most diverse and versatile perennial on the market. This plant can either serve as a tall backdrop, “spiller filler” or groundcover depending on the variety. Because of its diversity, it has a range of colors to its foliage and blooms. The tall sedum blooms either in the spring or fall; with a few varieties blooming in th

The Facts Height: Variety Dependent Spread: Variety Dependent Sun: Full Sun Water: Medium Soil: Well Drained Growth Rate: Fast Sedum are one of the most diverse and versatile perennial on the market. This plant can either serve as a tall backdrop, “spiller filler” or groundcover depending on the variety. Because of its diversity, it has a range of colors to its foliage and blooms. The tall sedum blooms either in the spring or fall; with a few varieties blooming in t

The Facts Height: 1′ – 2′ Spread: 1′ – 2′ Sun: Full Sun Water: Medium Soil: Well-Drained Growth Rate: Fast Salvia, sometimes sage or meadow sage, is a very well-known and popular plant. Hues of purple, blue, red and white can be seen blanketing garden beds throughout Oklahoma. The most popular of these are the May Night and Gregii varieties (purple and red, respectively). Saliva apiana is a white salvia that is sacred to and used in some Native American ceremonies. Because

The Facts Height: 1.5′ – 9′ Spread: 0.5′ – 1′ Sun: Full Sun Water: Medium Soil: Any Growth Rate: Fast This particular member of the sunflower family, Rudbeckia (Black-Eyed Susan), is a true North American native. The Native American tribes used it as a cure for colds, the flu and many other things. Large yellow flower heads with brown or black centers protrude on tall, fuzzy stems with their foliage staying lower to the ground. Though yellow is the predominant hue of R

The Facts Height: Variety Dependent Spread: Variety Dependent Sun: Full Sun Water: Medium Soil: Well Drained Growth Rate: Fast Whether it’s crawling the ground or reaching to the sky, Phlox is always a brilliant addition of color to the garden. Phlox can be broken down into two separate categories, Creeping Phlox and Garden (Tall) Phlox. Creeping Phlox is an early to mid-spring bloomer. Once the temperatures rise the blooming subsides. Garden Phlox tends to be the