Hello from Buckeye AZ.
I was raised in the valley but lived in WA for 25 years. When I came back I became very frustrated with gardening here after everything burned up during a vacation because of a watering malfunction. I started again last year slowly adding plants and gazebo's. I grow several cultivar of Iris and this spring I bought several daylily. I grow several salvia, gaillardia and am trying a couple of coneflowers and agastache. I also got a clematis to bloom...I just hope it does okay with this extreme heat we are having! I purchased some Dahlia tubers and found out that they are treated as annuals here...What is everyone growing in this area?