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The Quail Campus Xeriscape Garden is located at the new Recreation Center at 310 Quail Road, Longmont, CO 80501. The garden is approximately 5,000 square feet and has the following four different, low-water grasses: Buffalograss/Blue Grama; Western Wheat; Tall Fescue; and Shortgrass Prairie with wild flowers. There are also 42 different varieties of trees, shrubs and plants. This design incorporates the creative use of rock walls throughout the garden.
List of xeriscape plants used is avialable on-line.
More pictures of the xeriscape demonstration garden at Quail Campus available on-line.
| Common Name | Botanical Name |
| Deciduous Trees | |
| Cockspur Hawthorn | Crataegus crus-galli var. inermis |
| Japanese Pagodatree | Sophora japonica |
| Evergreen Trees | |
| Austrian Pine | Pinus nigra |
| Bristlecone Pine | Pinus aristata |
| Pinyon Pine | Pinus edulis |
| Deciduous Shrubs | |
| American Plum | Prunus americana |
| Blue Mist Spirea | Caryopteris candonensis |
| Boulder Raspberry | Rubus deliciosus |
| Big Tooth Maple | Acer grandidentatum |
| Gro-Low Sumac | Rhus aromatica 'Gro-Low' |
| Leadplant | Amorpha fruiticosa 'angustifolia' |
| New Mexican Privet | Foresteria neomexicana |
| Rabbitbrush | Chrysothamnus nauseosus 'Naus.' |
| Russian Sage | Perovskia atripicifolia |
| Serviceberry | Amelanchier alnifolia |
| Snowberry | Symphoricarpos albus |
| Squaw Currant | Ribes cereum |
| Three Leaf Sumac | Rhus trilobata |
| Waxflower | Jamesia americana |
| Woods Rose | Rosa woodsi |
| Western Sandcherry | Prunus besseyi |
| Evergreen Shrubs | |
| Green Mound Juniper | Juniperus procumbens 'Green Mound' |
| Perennials | |
| Columbine | Aquilegia caerulea |
| Blanketflower | Gaillardia aristata |
| Fireweed | Chamerion angustifolium |
| Yellow Flax | Linum flavum 'compactum' |
| Gayfeather | Liatrus punctata |
| Lavender-Munstead | Lavendula angustifolia 'Munstead' |
| Moonbeam Coreopsis | Coreopsis verticellata 'Moonbeam' |
| Purple Coneflower | Ehinacea purpurea |
| Pineleaf Penstemon | Penstemon pinifolius |
| Red Rocks Penstemon | Penstemon |
| Rocky Mt. Penstemon | Penstemon strictus |
| Yarrow | Achillea filipenula 'Parker's var.' |
| Ground Covers | |
| Barran Strawberry | Waldsteinia ternata |
| Creeping Western Sandcherry | Prunus besseyi 'Pawnee Buttes' |
| Mahonia | Mahonia repens |
| Sedum | Sedum spurium 'Red Carpet' |
| Sweet Woodruff | Calium odoratum |
| Wintercreeper | Euonymus coloratus |
| Ornamental Grasses | |
| Bug Bluestem | Andropogon gerardii |
| Feather Reed Grass | Calamogrostis acutiflora 'K Foerster' |
| Indian Ricegrass | Orysopsis hymenoides |
| Turf | |
| Buffalograss/Blue Grama | |
| Western Wheat | |
| Tall Fescue | |
| Shortgrass Prairie | |
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