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Black Foot Daisy
This is a mounding perennial with white flowers that bloom all summer.
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Blue Stem Joint Fir
This is a mounding evergreen shrub with slender blue stems.
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Creamy Sulfur Flower
The Creamy Sulfur Flower is a low growing mat forming perennial with silvery leaves and cream to pink flowers.
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Desert Beardtongue
This is a tall beautiful perennial with blue green leaves and fuchsia colored flowers.
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Fendler's Sundrops
This is an awesome mounding perennial with large 2-inch square, yellow flowers.
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Fruity Germander
This is a drought tolerant plant, suitable for xeriscaping.
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Indian Rice Grass
This is a bunch grass with delicate lacy leaves.
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Kannah Creek
This is a fantastic low growing mat forming perennial with dark green pointed leaves and sulfur yellow flowers in spring.
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Mexican Hat
This is a clump forming perennial with finely cut leaves and red to yellow flowers.
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Mojave Sage
This plant has intensely aromatic foliage and makes roughly 2-foot by 3-foot bushes with rosy pink flowers during the summer.
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Prairie Zinnia
Prairie Zinnia is a mound-forming perennial with papery yellow flowers throughout the summer.
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Prickly Poppy
This perennial has blue green spiny leaves and large white flowers.
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Purple Prairie Clover
This is an upright clump forming perennial with finely cut leaves.
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Purple Verbena
This hardy plant is attractive to bees, butterflies and/or birds.
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Spice Lily
Spice Lily is a drought-tolerant plant suitable for xeriscaping with average water needs.
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Walking Stick Cholla
This is a heavily spined Cholla whose stems resemble a bottle brush.
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Parks & Recreation
Physical Address
1340 Gunnison Avenue
Grand Junction, CO 81501
Phone: 970-254-3866
Hours
Monday through Friday
8 am to 5 pm
Closed for Lunch
Noon to 1 pm