Another plant that should earn a spot in every garden, Texas red yucca offers bright red flowers in summer that attract scores of hummingbirds. As you'd expect from a Southwestern native, it's reliable and heat and drought tolerant.
Name: Hesperaloe parviflora
Growing Conditions: Full sun and well-drained soil
Size: To 4 feet tall
Zones: 8-10
A first-rate plant for attracting hummingbirds, pineleaf penstemon offers beautiful fine-textured foliage and bright orange-red flowers over a 6-week period in summer.
Name: Penstemon pinifolius
Growing Conditions: Full sun and well-drained soil
Size: To 16 inches tall
Zones: 4-9
Spanish Bayonet
An evergreen with bold, blue-green foliage, Spanish bayonet is a year-round garden highlight. White bell-shaped flowers appear above the foliage in summer, making it even more lovely.
Name: Yucca harrimaniae
Growing Conditions: Part shade, dry soil
Size: To 4 feet tall
Zones: 5-8
A dwarf plant for the front of the border, tetranueris offers tidy mounds of blue-green foliage and beautiful daisy-shape golden-yellow flowers. It's a long bloomer, too, often flowering from spring until fall.
Name: Tetraneuris acaulis
Growing Conditions: Full sun and dry, well-drained soils
Size: To 6 inches tall
Zones: 4-8
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