You may think that drought tolerant gardens are only dreary collections of rocks and cacti, but nothing could be further from the truth!        I LOVE flowers and I have spent years researching drought tolerant plants that also have beautiful flowers and foliage. We are so lucky to live in a mild winter climate in Southern California that allows us to have such an amazing variety of beautiful flowering plants from all of the Mediterranean climactic zones in the world. This includes plants from the Mediterranean regions of France and Italy, Africa, and Australia as well as Chile. With proper design, you can have flowers to cut and make bouquets of at all times of the year - even Winter. I want to share with you here some beautiful flowering plants that I use in my landscaping and bouquets of flowers that I have put together from my own garden to bring beauty into my house in Pasadena, CA.

best wishes and good gardening, Robert Cornell