We like everything with flowers. We grow shrubs and trees like crepe myrtles, vitex or chaste trees, and desert willows. We also grow a few roses but over past years have had to eliminate almost all due to rose rosette disease. The lantana grows like crazy here and will spread 8 feet and grow 6 foot tall and bloom until frost. We still have a couple of reblooming daylilies. Sage and salvia grow well and bloom all summer. Still we have a few thousand daylilies and a few hundered other plants.