Colleen, do you get any summer rain? If not, be careful with what you order from High Country Gardens. Their plants are wonderful, but the deserts of NM and AZ get summer monsoon rains. In order to survive in California's dry summers (which is the case in almost all of the state), they require at least some summer irrigation to simulate the monsoon moisture. Just another quirk of living in a Mediterranean climate… Nan ***************************************** Nan Sterman, Plant Soup, Inc TM Garden Journalist • Speaker Gardening Coach • Garden Designer • Horticulture Consultant Mail PO Box 231034, Encinitas, CA 92023 Web http://www.plantsoup.com/ Blog http://plantsoup.com/blog/ Video http://www.plantsoup.com/tv-radio.php Author California Gardener's Guide vol II and Waterwise Plants for the Southwest Articles in print San Diego Union Tribune, Los Angeles Times, Sunset Magazine, Organic Gardening, and more…. Board Member, Garden Writers Association, Region VI Founding member, Great Garden Speakers Founding Board Member, Association of Professional Landscape Designers (APLD), San Diego District Founding Chair Encinitas Garden Festival & Tour On Nov 26, 2012, at 6:06 AM, Shawn Pollard <pollards22@yahoo.com> wrote: > Colleen, > > High Country Gardens out of Santa Fe has a mail order catalog full of plants appropriate to your climate, and I'm sure the local native plant society can also give you some tips. Your climate is similar to that of northern New Mexico, Arizona around Prescott, and the "warmer" parts of the Colorado Plateau (think species tulips!). Having spent many years in southeastern Arizona and southwestern Texas, I have much experience with what we call "high desert," but even that isn't nearly as cold as your region. > > Shawn Pollard > Yuma, AZ > _______________________________________________ > pbs mailing list > pbs@lists.ibiblio.org > http://pacificbulbsociety.org/list.php > http://pacificbulbsociety.org/pbswiki/