Starting Native Plant Garden (part-2): Where do you find plants for different garden spaces and wildlife.
How to select native plants for different garden designs and wildlife. Where to find native plants?
Episode # 20
Email me if you have questions on the topics covered on podcast or websiteWhere do you buy native plants in southwest USA. How do you select plants for your space, for different garden sizes and designs. Ideas for native plants in containers if you just have patio/balcony or or a rental home. I go through some examples of plants for different garden spaces and different wildlife benefits.
Relevant prior episodes
Ep # 4 _ Where to fin native plants. How to avoid confusion and invasive species
Ep # 7 : Sun Exposure an direction; Microclimate of Garden
2026 Spring Native plant sales mentioned in this episode
- UTEP, Flora Fest, El Paso, TX - April 11, 2026
- Alamogordo, NM ( Otero native plant society ) - April 11, 2026
- Borderland nursery and seeds - Patagonia AZ spring plant sale - April 25th Albuquerque and Santa Fe have plant sales in various locations in April and May
- Denver botanical garden annual spring sale - May
- Utah - May
- Southern California, Arizona an Nevada - Many sales were in February an March. A few may be in April. Please check your local area.
Some nurseries mentioned in this episode
Spadefoot Nursery, Tucson, AZ
https://www.spadefootnursery.com/
El Paso, TX
https://www.highdesertnativeplants.com/
Las Cruces, NM
La Union, NM (Near Las Cruces, NM & El Paso, TX)
https://www.sierravistagrowers.net/
Boulder Colorado
https://harlequinsgardens.com/
Plants mentioned in this episode :
Ground cover plants
Wine cups - Callirhe involucrata
Frog fruit - Phyla nodiflora
Silver pony foot - Dichondra argentea
Gray 5 eyes - Chamaesarcha chonioes
Windmill trailing vine -- Allionia incarnata
Flowering plants -
Salvias - multiple native species
Penstemons - multiple native species
Cherry Skullcap - Scutellaria sufretescens
Desert marigold - Baileya multiradiata
Blanket flower - Gaillardia (different native species)
Blackfoot daisy - Melampodium leucanthum
Chocolate daisy - Berandiera lyrata
damianita daisy - Chrysactinia mexicana
Shrubs and tress
Algeria - Mahonia trifoliata - (Berberis trifoliata)
Algeria - Mahonia hematocarpa - (red barberry -)
Wolfberry - Lycium Anderson (some other species of Lycium also native )
Little leaf Sumac - Rhus microphylla
Three leaf Sumac - Rhus trilobata
Manzanita - pointleaf Manzanita - Arctostaphylos pungent (and other native species )
Sage - Leucophyllum -
Desert Willow - Chilopsis liners
Mexican elder - Sambucus nigra ssp caerulea
Netleaf Hackberry - Celtis reticulata
Goldenball Lead tree - Leucaena retusa
Mexican red bird of paradise - Caesalpinia mexicana
Anisacanthus Quadrifidus var. wrightii
Grassess
Mexican feather grass - Nassella tennuissima
Grama grasses native to southwest
Buffalo grass - Bouteloua dactyloides
Muhly grasses - Muhlenbergia (several native southwest species)