Drought Tolerant Plants

Lantana thrives in relentless heat, blooming in vivid multicolor clusters that butterflies adore - a drought-proof pollinator favorite.Lantana is nursery-grown by Wade Greens in Lineville, Alabama, cared for by hand and shipped healthy and ready to thrive. Offered in 4" and 6" pots, shipped...

Our lavender - aromatic, floral buds - are grown at our Lineville, Alabama farm.Lavender is a fragrant, sun-loving herb prized for its calming scent, silvery foliage, and pollinator-friendly purple spikes. It's beautiful fresh or dried and thrives in hot, well-drained spots. Sold fresh through...

Fine woody sprigs that smell like thyme and lemon peel at once, giving you citrus lift in a herb that actually survives long cooking.Unlike soft lemon herbs, lemon thyme holds its character through roasting and braising, which makes it far more useful in the...

Bright lemon-and-thyme perfume that seasons roast chicken, butter, and shortbread without any of the sourness of actual citrus.A low, woody, evergreen sub-shrub that holds its leaves through most Alabama winters and keeps cutting through the cold months. It resents wet feet far more than...

Liriope is the ultimate no-fuss border and groundcover - grassy evergreen clumps topped with purple flower spikes that thrive almost anywhere.Liriope Bare-Root Bundle is nursery-grown by Wade Greens in Lineville, Alabama, cared for by hand and shipped healthy and ready to thrive. Available in...

Agave form with spotted, softer leaves - full sun, sharp drainage, and no spines to catch a customer.Mangave is a cross between Agave and Manfreda that keeps the architectural rosette while picking up dramatic spotting and faster growth. The leaf tips are soft rather...

Our fresh oregano is bold, peppery, and Mediterranean, grown at our Lineville, Alabama farm and cut fresh.Fresh oregano is an aromatic culinary herb, far more flavorful picked fresh than dried from a jar. It's easy to grow on a sunny sill and snips as...

Fresh oregano is peppery and warm with a faint bitterness that holds up to long cooking better than almost any other soft herb.Refrigerate in a loose bag for up to a week, or hang a bunch to dry. Strip the leaves from the woody...

Ornamental grasses add graceful movement, texture, and four-season structure to the landscape with very little upkeep.Ornamental Grass is nursery-grown by Wade Greens in Lineville, Alabama, cared for by hand and shipped healthy and ready to thrive. Offered in 4" and 6" pots, shipped well-rooted...

Sky-blue phlox-like clusters on a loose shrub that flowers through the hottest stretch of the year.Plumbago auriculata, Cape leadwort, is one of the few true blues that holds up to Alabama heat. It grows as a sprawling, semi-woody shrub with slender arching stems that...

A succulent annual that flowers hardest in the spots that cook everything else.Portulaca, moss rose, is built for the places you cannot keep watered - a hot walk edge, a shallow container, the strip beside a driveway. Fleshy needle-like leaves store their own water...

Purple Coneflower is a native prairie perennial whose bold, long-lasting blooms feed pollinators and finches - tough, reliable, and beautiful.Purple Coneflower Bare-Root is nursery-grown by Wade Greens in Lineville, Alabama, cared for by hand and shipped healthy and ready to thrive. Available in Bare-Root...

Our fresh rosemary is piney and aromatic with a woodsy fragrance, grown at our Lineville, Alabama farm and cut fresh.Fresh rosemary is an aromatic culinary herb, far more flavorful picked fresh than dried from a jar. It's easy to grow on a sunny sill...

Cut rosemary is resinous and piney with a camphor lift, strong enough that a single sprig will carry a whole pan.Wrap loosely and refrigerate for two weeks or more - it is the longest-keeping cut herb on the bench. Strip the needles from the...

A fragrant, living mini Christmas tree - a holiday gift that keeps cooking long after December.A Rosemary topiary trimmed into a little Christmas tree - fragrant, festive, and edible. A top holiday gift and centerpiece. Grown grower-direct on our Alabama farm. Offered in 6"...

Rudbeckia lights up the garden with golden, dark-eyed daisies for weeks on end - a tough native beloved by pollinators.Rudbeckia bring vivid, long-lasting color to gardens and arrangements, grown with care at our Lineville, Alabama farm. They're pollinator-friendly and a cheerful addition to beds,...

Airy silver-blue spires that shrug off heat and drought - a pollinator favorite that blooms for months.Russian Sage (Perovskia) is a tough, aromatic perennial with clouds of lavender-blue bloom from summer into fall. Deer-proof and heat-loving. Nursery-grown by Wade Greens and sold grower-direct -...

Half-flowers in fan shapes on a trailer that genuinely does not wilt.Scaevola, fan flower, is the Australian native that solved the hanging basket problem - it takes full Alabama sun, tolerates a missed watering, and keeps flowering without a single deadhead. The flowers look...

Sedum is a hardworking, drought-proof perennial - from low creeping mats to upright fall bloomers that pollinators adore.Sedum (stonecrop) is a tough, drought-tolerant perennial succulent that thrives in poor soil and full sun. It's a pollinator magnet in late summer and a reliable, low-maintenance...

Tea olive scents an entire yard with apricot-sweet fragrance in fall and spring while working year-round as a dense evergreen screen.Tea olive, or sweet olive, is a broadleaf evergreen with small, inconspicuous cream flowers that carry an extraordinary fragrance across long distances. It grows...