07-05-2007, 05:48 PM
good choices given already ...
Plumeria loves the heat and drought.
one I'n not sure if it would make it withoug water is the brugmansia / angel's trumpet. The broadleafed trees wilt quickly if exposed to wind. Tough plant though.
Bougainvillea needs to be trimmed or it will grow in very untidy runners equipped with sharp thorns. I'm not sure I'd put it in and then let it do its thing, but it does survive well without much water. Did I mention the stickers? My son calls it poor man's barbed wire ... good on perimeters.
Aloe vera, puakenikeni tree, Mexican clumping bamboo (otatea azuminata), crown of thorns, lantana, pineapples, allamanda, agapanthus (lily of the nile), spider lilies, oha'i ali'i (dwarf poinciana), penthas ...
Palms, dracaena, crotons, ti, bougainvillea, spider lilies, hibiscus (not so much the new hybrids, but the common tough ones), these are workhorses of Hawai'i dryside gardens, for borders and boundary lines. Other plants in the list make good specimens.
I'm ambivalent about mango trees because they get to 60 feet and dominate the landscape, cutting off other people's views. I like them but kept under control.
Plumeria loves the heat and drought.
one I'n not sure if it would make it withoug water is the brugmansia / angel's trumpet. The broadleafed trees wilt quickly if exposed to wind. Tough plant though.
Bougainvillea needs to be trimmed or it will grow in very untidy runners equipped with sharp thorns. I'm not sure I'd put it in and then let it do its thing, but it does survive well without much water. Did I mention the stickers? My son calls it poor man's barbed wire ... good on perimeters.
Aloe vera, puakenikeni tree, Mexican clumping bamboo (otatea azuminata), crown of thorns, lantana, pineapples, allamanda, agapanthus (lily of the nile), spider lilies, oha'i ali'i (dwarf poinciana), penthas ...
Palms, dracaena, crotons, ti, bougainvillea, spider lilies, hibiscus (not so much the new hybrids, but the common tough ones), these are workhorses of Hawai'i dryside gardens, for borders and boundary lines. Other plants in the list make good specimens.
I'm ambivalent about mango trees because they get to 60 feet and dominate the landscape, cutting off other people's views. I like them but kept under control.