 The following is a production of New Mexico State University. Gardeners all over the southwest are selecting more and more ziric plants to create unique and water-wise landscapes. Today we're back in the Colorado Springs Zir Escape Demonstration Garden where Valerie Club Conservation Specialist will introduce us to a variety of beautiful ziric plants. Some will be more appropriate for high mountain areas and some for low-lying desert areas. Valerie gardeners here in the southwest have to realize how diverse, how varied and extreme this gardening climate is. We range from high mountain plants down to low desert plants. You've got a pretty good collection here. We do. We've got a lot that will go even higher up than what we are right now, such as the caragana, the pea shrub, which has a beautiful yellow bloom on it. The bur oak is a very sturdy tree. We've got the three-leaf sumac, which is a wonderful shrub. It comes down pretty far into lower elevations too. Yes, it does. Yes, it does. It's a wonderful fall color. And then we've got, as we come down the slope here, we see some of the wildflowers that we might see in the southwest, penstemons, the grasses. Yes, we've tried to incorporate a lot of different ornamental grasses because of their value in the winter. And Artemisia in one form of the sagebrush. Yeah, the blue color is wonderful. And as we come further down, we see some ground cover plants. Yeah, the soap ward of the saponaria. This is really our ground cover kind of demonstration area. We've got the soft landing time, which has been a wonderful time. And a couple of different kinds of Veronica that give us a lot of color. And really a striking show of penstemon in here. We also have, I don't know if you noticed, the dwarf rabbit brush, which is a little two feet, two foot tall one. So it's really appropriate for this area. And as you go further down into the low desert, rubber rabbit brush is one of the common plants. In fact, sometimes called chemisa. As we come down out of the mountains, then we leave the ponderosa forest behind on spruce or far above that. And we come into the pineon forest, the pineons and junipers. And the big western sage, you can see. And the lower Artemis is here. And don't forget the choyas. They're very popular, even as high up as we are. And when they bloom, they're beautiful. But when you step on them, they hurt. Yuccas, another one you want to watch. Lots of yuccas, yes. They're beautiful. They've bloomed a lot this year. They ran down into the rubber rabbit brush. Yes, lots of rabbit brush. And this is really a wonderful thing that we have in our garden here. In terms of the whole garden gold in the fall, doesn't it? Beautiful, just beautiful. And as you go further down, then you go into the low desert. And you've got some representatives of that here as well. The low desert is the realm of the cacti. You'll see some yucca and other things as well. But that's really where we think of the cacti. Absolutely, but we don't want to confuse the cactus and the rocks with zero skate. Right, this is still zero skate. Yes, it is. If you had only cactus and rocks, you might have a true zero skate. Zero skate, yes. But if you bring the native plants in, add to them some adapted plants. Absolutely. Some design and put together the principles of zero skate. You've got a zero skate. And the lowest water using zero skate. Yes. The lowest water-wise. We've got the holodiscous dimosus rock spray, which is very pretty with the little soft peach color flowers. Yes. The patchy plume is a beautiful plant all four seasons. Both of these are natives. Absolutely, yeah. And some ornamental grasses. The blue ravina is very pretty. You've got the woods rose, which is in the forest that comes down. Smaller elevations with very little water. And does very well wherever it goes. And then some non-native but adapted plants you can use. The lilac. The hawthorns. Yes. You've got the philodelfus. The mock oranges. Mock oranges are beautiful. They're in bloom right now. You've got the amorphous, the false indigos. So there's so many things you can bring in and design it properly. Absolutely. You'll have a landscape that looks good, uses relatively little water, but it's easy to take care of. True zero skate, yes.