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Agastache rugosa
Green, licorice-scented leaves reach 5 feet tall and 2 feet wide. This perennial has purple-blue summer flowers that hummingbirds love.
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Echinocactus grusoni
A slow-growing native Mexican cactus covered in golden spines. This plants reaches 4 feet tall and 2.5 feet wide. Small yellow flowers top the plant in summer.
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Lavandula multifida
Soft silver foliage covers these shrubs as they reach 3 feet wide and 1.5 feet tall. Their thin stems have violet flowers that bloom from spring to fall.
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Lewisia cotyledon 'Sunset Strain'
With pink and orange blooms and evergreen foliage, the Sunset Strain reaches a foot high and 10 inches wide. This is a great plant to include in rock gardens, but needs excellent drainage.
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Nassella tenuissima
This grass has wispy green blades that form clumps reaching 2 feet tall and wide. In the summer, a yellow flower blooms.
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Salvia clevelandii
Purple-blue flower spikes grow from aromatic gray-green foliage in early summer. This sage grows 3 to 5 feet tall, and 5 to 8 feet wide.
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Sedum rupestre 'Angelina'
Short yellow leaves grow on stems up to 6 inches tall. This succulent spreads freely, making it a great groundcover or filler between other plant.
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Sedum spathulifolium ‘Cape Blanco’
This low groundcover has tiny blue-green leaves form tight rosettes on trailing stems.
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Sedum spurium 'Voodoo'
Small, rounded burgundy leaves cover this low-growing, quick-spreading succulent. Tiny red flowers bloom in summer.
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Sempervivum
With gray-green, pink-tipped rosettes from 2 to 5 inches across, this plant grows into clumps spanning 2 feet or more. Red flowers shoot from thin, 2-foot-tall stems.