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	<title>The Xeric Gardener &#187; David&#8217;s Favorite Plants</title>
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		<title>The Genus Penstemon; The Royalty of American Wildflowers  (Part 2)</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 26 Feb 2010 18:40:27 +0000</pubDate>
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Recommended Varieties
I have numerous favorites amongst the 300 or so species of Beardtongues. Admittedly, my favorites are well adapted to the high desert/intermountain region in which I garden. These plants all thrive in cold zone 6 winters, arid conditions and extremely intense sunlight. But they also thrive in other regions of the country where their [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Two Remarkable, Cold Hardy Agave Species from Northern Arizona</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 05 Feb 2010 22:25:39 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>David Salman</dc:creator>
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 Agave (century plants) are in the top tier of my favorite plants. I enjoy them for their incredible geometric symmetry, their ornamental yet fearsome spination and the remarkable impact their sculptural forms have on the landscape, especially the larger growing species.
The genus is native to North America with the bulk of its species to [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Growing Cacti and Succulents for Seed Production</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 05 Jan 2010 19:04:10 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>David Salman</dc:creator>
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I’m not one for making lots of New Year’s resolutions. But I did promise myself that I’d get my collection of cacti and succulents re-potted this winter. Because High Country Gardens is such a large grower of cold hardy cacti and South African succulents, we like to grow seed of my favorite plants. Often commercial [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Fall blooming bulbs; the stunning Sternbergia lutea!</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 02 Oct 2009 21:36:38 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>David Salman</dc:creator>
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This Mediterranean native bulb commonly known as Lily of the Field or Winter Daffodil provides a brief but fabulous bit of color in the fall xeriscape. The large, deep yellow, six petaled flowers appear suddenly in late September here in Santa Fe&#8217;s high elevation, short season Zone 6 climate. (They bloom later in warmer areas.) [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Pour on the Orange; Planting Zauschneria for Hummingbirds</title>
		<link>http://blog.highcountrygardens.com/archives/441</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 08 Sep 2009 07:47:26 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>David Salman</dc:creator>
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One of my favorite native genera is Zauschneria, also know by its common names such as Hummingbird Trumpet, Fire Chalice and California Fuchsia. (To botanists and botanically informed gardeners who read this blog, you&#8217;ll note that I have refused to lump them into the Fireweed genus Epilobium)
Their Native Range
Native from Arizona, Utah, Idaho and west [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Cold Hardy, Late Summer / Early Fall Blooming Sages</title>
		<link>http://blog.highcountrygardens.com/archives/394</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 28 Aug 2009 11:00:27 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>David Salman</dc:creator>
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Fall is in the Air
I look forward to my gardens this time of the year. Many of my favorite native plants and ornamental grasses come into flower as the summer transitions to fall. Living and gardening at an elevation of nearly 7, 000 ft. here in Santa Fe, you can already feel a hint of [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Agastache: &#8220;Super Stars&#8221; of the Perennial World &#8211; Part 2</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 19 Aug 2009 10:00:11 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>David Salman</dc:creator>
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It&#8217;s no surprise that gardeners across the country are bringing Agastache plants into their gardens. Some of these new hybrids are worthwhile while others appear to not be anything really exciting. Never-the-less, I&#8217;m excited that this genus is becoming more widely grown.I think that there has been some sales hype and mis-information about growing the [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Agastache; &#8220;Super Stars&#8221; of the Perennial World</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 14 Aug 2009 18:59:34 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>David Salman</dc:creator>
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Growing plants of the genus Agastache (A gas&#8217; ta kee or A gas tack&#8217; e), commonly known as hummingbird mint or hyssop, has been an obsession of mine for the last 15 years. They have everything I love in a perennial; aromatic flowers and foliage, stunning spikes of tubular flowers that attract hummingbirds, bees and [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Keeping Penstemon ‘Blue Lips&#8217; looking great all season long</title>
		<link>http://blog.highcountrygardens.com/archives/283</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 08 Jul 2009 17:43:30 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>David Salman</dc:creator>
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Penstemon ‘Blue Lips&#8217; is a High Country Gardens introduction (new plant to the gardening world) for 2009. While many gardeners judge a plant by only by its flowers, ‘Blue Lips&#8217; is an excellent example of a perennial that is both dazzling in flower and sublimely beautiful with just its foliage.
‘Blue Lips&#8217; is a hybrid plant [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Favorite Plants</title>
		<link>http://blog.highcountrygardens.com/archives/272</link>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 31 May 2009 22:09:14 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>David Salman</dc:creator>
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I spend a great deal of time evaluating and breeding new plants for High Country Gardens. But some of my favorite introductions have been by chance.
Penstemon barbatus &#8216;Schooley&#8217;s Coral&#8217;  originated as single plant I discovered at Santa Fe Greenhouses about 10 or so years ago. I believe it is the result of an unplanned [...]]]></description>
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