Southwest Gardener’s Desert Plant Library contains comprehensive articles covering a wide range of popular desert landscape plants.
The information presented in these plant overviews will help you learn how to take better care of the plants you have. You’ll learn exactly what they need to thrive — sun, temperature, and water requirements, best pruning and fertilizing practices, common pest problems, and more.
And by using this information before you add a new plant to your landscape, you can determine whether it’s the right plant for the place you have in mind before you buy.
The information you find here will ultimately save you time, money, and frustration.
You can browse by plant category or use the Plant Index, which has alphabetical lists of plants by common name.







Native Desert Plants
