(Cape Jasmine, Gardenia, Variegated Gardenia)

The variegated gardenia has glossy white, creamy pale yellow and dark green leaves and double white blossoms. It is more slowly growing than the species. This medium to small shrub originates from China, Taiwan and Japan. From late spring to summer it produces waxy, ivory flowers exude oils with a lovely fragrance.

Acidic, evenly moist soils with good drainage are crucial for plant health and successful blooming. Common gardenia grows best in full to partial sun and should be provided with good...

(Everblooming Cape Jasmine, Gardenia)

Best known for its compact habit and vigorous flowering, Everblooming Cape Jasmine is a superb evergreen shrub for southern gardens.

This small shrub originates from China, Taiwan and Japan. Its neat, bushy habit and glossy, dark green leaves provide landscape interest all season. From summer to fall it produces many large, waxy, highly perfumed, ivory flowers. These are quite large and their sweet fragrance is so pungent it can be detected from afar.

Acidic, moist soils with good drainage...

(Cape Jasmine, Gardenia, White Gem Gardenia)

Best known for its lush foliage, dwarf stature and wonderfully ornamental fragrant flowers, ‘White Gem’ is a superb evergreen shrub for warm climates. From late spring to summer it produces many single, waxy, white flowers whose light fragrance permeates the garden. Flowers have six whorled petals that barely touch each other. Sporadic flowers may be seen in the cooler days of late summer and fall.

Acidic, evenly moist soil with good drainage is crucial for plant health and successful blooming....

(Tahitian Gardenia, Tiare )

The floral emblem of Tahiti, the large fragrant white blossoms of tiare beautifully dapple the glossy dark green foliage in the warm months of the year. A frost-tender, broadleaf evergreen shrub, it is native to extreme southeastern Asia. Archaeological evidence leads experts to believe it is native to New Guinea and the Solomon Islands and was spread eastward across the South Pacific by admiring native peoples, eventually reaching the Society Islands (Tahiti).

The broadly oval leaves are thing...

(Cow's Tongue Cactus, Gasteria, Kus Beestong)

Large rosettes with pointed, spotted leaves make this Gasteria species look like a coarse, multi-armed starfish. Gasteria acinacifolia is the largest species and is native to the dunes across the Eastern Cape province of South Africa. A single plant becomes a cluster of multiple rosettes over time. If any portion of a leaf is trampled or broken off, it will readily root in the soil to become a new plant.

The rosette's firm, succulent leaves are strap- or spear-shaped, often...

(Gasteria, Knoppies Beestong)

Knoppies beestong is a very pretty species of Gasteria with pink flowers and rotating fans of dark green leaves marked with attractive lighter green bands. This frost-tender, succulent perennial is native to northern South Africa and adjacent Namibia where it inhabits shaded river banks and rockeries across the interior highland savannahs. A single plant forms a cluster of multiple rosettes over time. If any portion of a leaf is trampled or broken off, it will readily root in the soil to...

(Gasteria, Lawyer's Tongue)

a mature clump of lawyer's tongue looks like a mass of rough-skinned tongues atop the soil. This frost-tender, succulent perennial is native to the Eastern Cape of South Africa. Over time, a single plant forms a cluster of multiple rosettes with spotted foliage. If any portion of a leaf is trampled or broken off, it readily roots in the soil to become a new plant.

The single-planed rosette's of lawyer's tongue are comprised of thick, plump, strap-like leaves with blunt, oval tips. Each leaf...

(Beestongopcell, Gasteria, Lawyer's Tongue)

This lawyer's tongue produces elongated, dark green leaves covered in lighter dots. This frost-tender, succulent perennial is native to southeastern South Africa. A single plant forms a cluster of multiple rosettes over time. If any portion of a leaf is trampled or broken off it readily roots in the soil to become a new plant. There is considerable variability in this species with some plants forming rounded rosettes and others fan-shaped rosettes. Typically those grown in cultivation have the latter...

(Dwarf Gasteria, Dwarf Lawyer's Tongue, Klein Beestongopcell)

Looking like a miniaturized stacked mass of rough-skinned tongues atop the soil, dwarf lawyer's tongue produces very short, tongue-like, dark green leaves mottled with light-colored dots. This frost-tender, succulent perennial is native to southeastern South Africa in an isolated area of the mountains near Grahamstown. A single plant becomes a cluster of multiple rosettes over time. If any portion of a leaf is trampled or broken off, it readily roots in the soil to become a new plant.

The one-planed...

(Gasteria)

Succulent lovers will prize the beautiful fan-shaped rosettes of spotted foliage and drooping coral and green flowers produced by this charming Gasteria. It is native to the western cape of South Africa where it naturally exists on cool rocky hillside slopes, often under the cover of scrub and open shrubs. Like most Gasteria, it is slow-growing and forms pleasing clumps of plantlets over time.

The fan-like rosettes of this pretty succulent are tongue-like and spotted with...