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Drought Smart Plants..for Smart Gardeners

Are you dreading trying to have a beautiful garden with the predicted water restrictions this long hot summer? Garden smarter and let Drought Smart Plants help you find plants that revel in drought and challenging conditions.

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Luckily, there are many colourful, hardy plant species that are easy to combine in containers, beds and borders and in interesting and different accent pieces for your garden.

Happy Sempervivum in Satellite Dish Planters
Try growing some of the extremely beautiful varieties of Sempervivum – did you know that there are over six hundred named varieties and many more species? I challenge anyone to find duplicates among the red, burgundy, mauve, taupe, smooth and fuzzy rose like foliaged plants that are not only gorgeous, but thrive in hot, dry neglected sites, with little to no additional water than what nature provides.

Sedum on green roofs are becoming a much talked about addition on everything from skyscrapers to chicken coops to dog houses.


Try planting Sedum on your barnboard nest boxes and give the birds something to chatter about.

Containers spilling over with healthy and happy succulent plants on your deck or sun drenched patio no longer means watering twice or three times a day – you won’t be a slave to these drought smart plants!

Many xeric plants are not only drought smart and water wise, they have many other unique strategies to help them thrive in less than ideal conditions. Investigate the potential, and find out some incredible facts about these wonderful plants.

Sedum and Sempervivum in a Rustic Kettle

Here you'll find the information you need to plan, design and nurture your perfect ecological niche. You may also get inspiration for beautifying your garden with rustic garden crafts, unique and clever ideas for displaying succulents as well as ideas for using many drought smart plants in your garden.

Browsing through the plants on this website will give you a wealth of beautiful plants to choose from to create your special habitat. Wildlife, birds, butterflies and other insects will visit to feed and raise their families in the beautiful garden you’ve fashioned.

Many gardeners sense a mysterious attraction to drought smart plants. You may feel the pull of their symmetry and simplicity like many others before you, and admire their toughness and resilience in conditions of poor soil, infrequent watering and neglect. Your garden can still look lush and inviting, even when you don’t have time to water and cater to the whims of more fussy plants.

In the Victorian age, many of these gorgeous succulent plants were collected by their avid fans, and then sadly forgotten; now they’ve been re-discovered in this age of dry garden exploration. Begin your exciting journey into the world of xeric gardening.

Important Note:

Due to import and export regulations, I am unable to ship the plants listed on this site to any countries other than Canada, but please enjoy the information about the many Drought Smart Plants and interesting ways to use them that you'll find here.

  • Sedum

    There are many beautiful varieties to accent your xeric garden. Use them on your green roof to create a haven for butterflies, bees and birds right in your own backyard. They’ll hold your precious soil in place with their tenacious but well behaved growth, and add texture and colour to rockeries, walls, borders and planters.

  • Sempervivum

    The vast array of textures and colours will astound you. Use them to make your very own living patchwork quilt - you’ll be constantly amazed as the hues change with the seasons.

  • Jovibarba

    These rare and unusual rosette forming plants will satisfy the collector as well as the novice, and add a whole new dimension to your xeric garden.

  • Thyme

    The most romantic and free-flowering ground covers to soften your world.

  • Echeveria

    An incredible array of blue to grey, pink to mahogany, crinkled, warty, and soft, rubbery textures to delight and fascinate you.

  • Haworthia

    Jewel-like textural, spiky, striped leaves, some with windows built into them, some with corky lines as an added attraction.

  • Aloe

    Irresistible hummingbird magnets beloved for their spiky but soft leaves with spots, stripes, textured lines and not least for their spires of bell like blooms to attract those tiniest of birds.

  • Aeonium

    These rare, unusual, precious gems of darkest purple, palest lime green and every colour in between.

  • Tender Succulent Plants

    to enhance your collection, some rare, some old fashioned but new again.

If you're interested in rustic crafts or making a succulent wreath or a barnboard potting bench you'll find ideas, inspiration and information on techniques for many such crafts using salvaged and found materials.

I’m Jacki Cammidge, Certified Horticulturist, avid xeric gardener and wildcrafting artisan. Join me on the adventure of a lifetime in the hunt for exotic, unusual, intriguing and fascinating Drought Smart Plants.

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Drought Smart Plants Blog
Drought Smart Plants Blog keeps you in the loop with all the latest xeric garden and succulent plant information.

Drought Smart Plants Site Map
Drought Smart Plants Site Map

Drought Tolerant Plants - water wise & low maintenance yet beautiful
The use of drought tolerant plants is one of the basic tenets in xeric design.

Sedum - the best Sedum to plant - choose your favorite kinds
Deciding which Sedum to plant can be a daunting prospect - if you aren't sure what you want. Choose from this list the perfect Sedum for your project.

Sedum for Borders - robust and hardy, yet majestic - tall Sedum varieties
The best Sedum for borders are the taller types such as Sedum spectabile and Sedum telephium varieties. They add height and structure to mixed plantings.

Sedum for Containers - tried and tested - my favorite Sedum for containers
Sedum makes an ideal plant in containers and troughs due to its ability to resist drought and heat, in fact preferring those conditions.

Sedum for Groundcovers - drought tolerant & tough,textured & colourful
Sedum is the very best drought tolerant plant for groundcovers - textural, colourful and hardy, Sedum makes a tapestry carpet of succulent foliage, with the added bonus of bright blooms in waves.

Sedum List Text Only
Sedum List Text Only

New Sedum - tentative new additions to the Sedum line
New Sedum for 2011

Sempervivum - hardy and beautiful - bejewel and bedazzle your Xeric Garden
Sempervivum have been known for centuries as hens and chicks, and houseleeks.

Jovibarba - amazingly hardy and beautiful gems for your xeric garden
Jovibarba, the other hens and chicks.

Green Roofs - roof meadow, savanna or Sedum roof - many choices to make
The low down on green roofs - are you ready for yours?

Green Roof Sedum - best choices for green roofs - tough, hardy & colourful
Green roof plantings have historically been of Sedum, with other plants less commonly planted. Sedum is the perfect green roof plant.

Green Roof Plants - best plants for green roofs - hardy and drought tolerant
Of course, I am partial to Sedum to plant on green roofs, along with many green roof professionals, but there are many other green roof plants that are now more commonly planted.

Succulent Plants - Drought Smart Plants with attitude
Succulent plants have certain characteristics - in their case, ways of surviving dry conditions. They come from many different genera, or groups of plants which explains why they look so different.

Succulent Crafts - fun, textural, & unique low maintenance garden accents
I have always had so much fun making succulent crafts, using many of my collection of tender succulent plants, Echeveria and others to make succulent mosaics, topiaries, address signs and wreaths

Succulent Plants Miscellaneous - varied, short, tall, warty, waxy, fuzzy & tough
Can you stop at just one more gorgeous succulent plant from many different genera?

New Miscellaneous Succulents
New Miscellaneous Succulents for 2010

Aeonium - rare, special & beautiful succulent plants for the connoisseur
Aeonium are without a doubt, one of the most beautiful and sought after additions to succulent collections.

New Aeonium
New Aeonium for 2010

Aloe - strappy mottled spotted speckled leaves - hummingbird magnet flowers
Aloe are spiky and fleshy leaved, grown mainly for the foliage effects, but they'll surprise you with their flowers which form on an excessively long stalk.

New Aloe
New Aloe for 2010

New Crassula
New Crassula for 2010

Haworthia
Haworthia are known as the jewels of the succulent world; bright green translucent leaves or spectacular markings are their hallmark.

New Haworthia
New Haworthia for 2010

Lithops - pebble plant or living stone - fascinating masters of mimicry
Lithops are an amazing plant - yes, I said plant. I know, they don't look like one!

Succulent Plant List Text Only
A list of succulent plants without graphics

Succulent Plant Identification - find out what you have and solve the mystery
There are many box stores and chain stores that carry unidentified succulent plants which just seem to leap into your shopping cart and beg for a new home. I can't resist them!

Succulent Plant Propagation - make more Drought Smart Plants - learn how here
Succulent plants are easy to propagate; many can be rooted from a leaf alone, others will root quickly from a stem cutting. Learning about propagation techniques is fascinating, and fun.

Succulent Swap - trade, barter & exchange - my succulents cuttings for yours
Swap succulent plants or cuttings from your collection in exchange for ones from mine!

Echeveria - add these gorgeous drought smart plants to your containers this year
Echeveria are some of my favorite succulent plants. I grow them because they are so varied in colours and textures.

How to Grow Echeveria - a few simple rules for the most gorgeous Echeveria ever
Here are a few tips on how to grow Echeveria successfully. In many places in Canada, it is too cold for the winter months to keep Echeveria outside, as they originate in Mexico.

Echeveria List A-L
List of the Echeveria in my collection from A-L

Echeveria List M-Z
Echeveria in my collection from M to Z

Echeveria Identification - upload pictures of your mystery Echeveria here
Echeveria identification got you puzzled? Send pictures here...

New Echeveria
Here are some new Echeveria coming up for 2011

It's About Thyme! - and there's never enough thyme - great inspiration
...and thyme is of the essence. Here are some ideas for growing thyme in your garden.

Thyme List - make your choice from these varieties for your xeric garden project
Choose from this list of many different types of thyme for your project.

Thyme List Text Only
A list of Thyme without graphics

How To Grow Thyme - the best tips for happy, healthy thyme plants
Instructions and tips on how to grow Thyme in your garden.

Signs of the Thymes - funny puns about thyme; paint them on your rustic signs
I love to paint funny thyme sayings on rustic weathered barn boards or driftwood signs to accent my xeric garden.

Rustic Crafts - using found and salvaged things to build your rustic crafts
You can use many natural things from your xeric garden to make neat and unique rustic crafts. Embellish other found and salvaged items to display or even better, to use in your garden.

Twig Gazebo - add that rustic country charm to your xeric garden
Designing and building a twig gazebo is a challenging project. If, like me, rustic crafts fill your garden providing drama and delight, a twig gazebo could be next.

Xeric Gardens - dryland gardening & xeriscaping - more than just a fad
Xeric gardens, or water wise gardens, are not necessarily a dry desert looking place, with cactus and rocks, although rocks can certainly play a part...

Xeric Plants - find your favorite plants that can survive challenging conditions
Xeric plants; make your choice from the common, and not so common.

Sustainable Gardening - soil building, organic food production & much more
What is Sustainable Gardening? In an ideal world, all the inputs, or whatever you put into your garden would equal the outputs, or whatever it produces.

Composting - the alchemy of compost - turn kitchen scraps into black gold
I have been addicted to composting for as long as I can remember. My family always had a compost pile, and I was ignorant of many facts about them until I started gardening myself.

Lasagna Gardening - transform wasteland into garden the easy way
Lasagna gardening is similar to sheet composting, but you actually never turn this or dig it over. In fact, you never have to do anything to it again, except add more ingredients to your lasagna.

Compost Tea - miracle fertilizer? or simple ingredients to boost production
Compost tea takes a tiny amount of precious compost or animal manure and brews it into a miracle fertilizer.

Chickens - how to keep your backyard poultry flock happy and healthy
A small flock of chickens are worth their weight in gold in your garden. Not only are they pest catchers and egg producers, they are also wonderful at stirring up the compost.

Hedgerows - wildlife habitat, craft supplies, berries for jam & birds & more
In many places in the UK, and other parts of Europe, hedgerows historically were a familiar sight in the countryside.

Shelterbelts - wildlife habitat, soil conservation & microclimate control
Shelterbelts are hedgerows on a grand scale. Used extensively throughout areas of the prairies where there are scouring winds from a predominant direction

Windbreaks - minimize the wind, prevent soil erosion, enhance your microclimate
Windbreaks are similar in design to shelterbelts, but can also be made from other materials than plants. A good windbreak will only slow or re-direct the wind, not stop it entirely.

Wildlife Trees - old snags & stumps, dead & dying trees - great wildlife habitat
Wildlife trees are an integral part of the eco-system, creating bio-diversity and providing wildlife habitat.

Urban Farming - cities need micro-farms, too - grow food organically
Urban farming is a groundswell movement of growing food in cities and towns; in fact, anywhere other than a countryside setting.

Guerilla Gardening - stealth gardening in an urban setting
Guerilla gardening emerged on the urban scene several years ago, and has seen phenomenal growth as more and more city dwellers tire of seeing the urban jungle of concrete sap the human spirit.

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About Drought Smart Plants and me - the path less traveled
All about Drought Smart Plants and me or; My Life in a Nutshell.

Philosophy of a Xeric Gardener - taking the long way round
One Xeric Gardeners Philosophy.

Blue Fox Farm - micro farm, or wildlife habitat; you decide
Blue Fox Farm is my little nursery, nestled in a wooded canyon about 15 kilometers north of Grand Forks, British Columbia.

My Sedum and Succulent Nursery - not just mail order plants
I have always been fascinated by succulent plants, including Sedum, Sempervivum and tender succulents.

The Greenhouse - an integral part of the Nursery at Blue Fox Farm
Built in 2002, the greenhouse at Blue Fox Farm was designed to accommodate a much different crop at the start.

Your Community
Join the community and add your voice - what's happening where you are?

My SBI! Story - finding the knowledge, tools and support to be a Webmaster
My SBI! story began in 2009. I had a website that was way too far above me technologically, and quite frankly, it was intimidating to even consider doing anything with it.

Bear Smart Gardening - common sense bear deterring tactics - bear safe gardening
Bear smart gardening tips and information for bear and gardener safety

Liquid Organic Fertilizer - a miracle plant food produced by an amazing factory
Using one of the worlds best plant foods, Liquid Organic Fertilizer is produced by a most amazing factory - you.

Containers for Succulents - classic or rustic, Drought Smart Plants love pots
Containers for succulents can range from the unique to the common. No matter what you choose, your succulents will look fabulous on your deck or patio in groups as an accent or focal point.

Sempervivum Picture Gallery A-C species & varieties
Browse the Sempervivum Picture Gallery with photographs of over 100 species and varieties

Sempervivum Picture Gallery D-L species & varieties
Browse the Sempervivum Picture Gallery with photographs of over 100 species and varieties

Sempervivum Picture Gallery R-Z species & varieties
Browse the Sempervivum Picture Gallery with photographs of over 100 species and varieties

Sempervivum Picture Gallery M-P species & varieties
Browse the Sempervivum Picture Gallery with photographs of over 100 species and varieties

Rock Gardens
Rock gardens can also be a display garden not only for your collection of plants but for those fabulous rocks and driftwood that seem to leap into the back of the car whenever you stop at a beach.

Beneficial Insects - the secret army of friendly assassins
Beneficial insects in your xeric garden range from microscopic mites to gigantic dragonflies catching mosquitoes and other prey on the wing.


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