Landscape Plants for the Arizona Desert
Shrubs
Shrubs are a versatile group of plants. Explore shrubs with a variety of flower colors and blooming periods to provide seasonal impact or use them as accents, borders or hedges, screening, or even in containers. As with trees, select shrubs according to their use and mature size, allowing enough space for their full-grown height and width. Most shrubs have attractive, natural shapes, so very little pruning or shearing is needed.
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Arizona Rosewood
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Arizona Yellow Bells
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Baja Fairy Duster
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Baja Ruellia
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Barberry
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Bee Brush
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Brittlebush
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Bush Dalea
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Cape Honeysuckle
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Chihuahuan Sage
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Chuparosa
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Creosote Bush
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Desert Hackberry
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Desert Lavender
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Desert Tea
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Firecracker Bush
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Flame Honeysuckle
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Flattop Buckwheat
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Fourwing Saltbush
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Golden Eye
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Gray Thorn
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Green Feathery Senna
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Guayacán
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Hop Bush
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Jojoba
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Langman's Sage
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Little Leaf Ash
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Little Leaf Cordia
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Mangle Dulce
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Natal Plum
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Oleander
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Orange Bells
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Pink Fairy Duster
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Pomegranate
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Red Bird of Paradise
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Red Eremophila
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Red Justicia
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San Marcos Hibiscus
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Shrubby Senna
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Sugar Bush
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Superstition Mallow
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Texas Olive
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Texas Sage
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Triangleleaf Bursage
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Turpentine Bush
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Violet Silverleaf
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Weeping Dalea
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White Plumbago
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Wolfberry
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Woolly Butterfly Bush
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