(Barberton Daisy, Gerbera Daisy, Royal Yellow Gerbera Daisy, Transvaal Daisy)

A favorite for containers, mixed beds, and bouquets, Gerbera jamesonii is a tender perennial native to South Africa. The cultivar 'Royal Yellow' produces very large bright yellow daisies with darker yellow centers above evergreen mounds of large, shallowly lobed, dark green leaves. The flowers continue year-round where conditions are favorable (with blooming peaks in late spring and late fall).

Plants prefer cool weather, fertile well drained soil and full to part sun. Indoors they grow best...

(Barberton Daisy, Festival Mini Gerbera Daisy, Gerbera Daisy, Transvaal Daisy)

A favorite for containers, mixed beds, and bouquets, Gerbera jamesonii is a tender perennial native to South Africa. Gerberas in the Festival Mini Series are compact with smaller but more abundant flowers than those of other cultivars. The red, orange, yellow, or pink daisies with large contrasting eyes appear above evergreen mounds of large, shallowly lobed, dark green leaves. When growing conditions are favorable they bloom year-round (with peaks in late spring and late fall).

Plants prefers...

(Barberton Daisy, Festival Gerbera Daisy, Gerbera Daisy, Transvaal Daisy)

Gerbera daisies in the Festival series are compact tender perennials that are ideal for containers and mixed beds. They produce very large daisies year-round (with blooming peaks in late spring and late fall). These may be white, orange, yellow, red or pink and appear above evergreen mounds of large, shallowly lobed, dark green leaves. They also have very large centers in various contrasting colors. Spent flowers should be removed to encourage further flowering.

Plant these ornamentals in fertile,...

(Barberton Daisy, Gerbera Daisy, Lollipop Gerbera Daisy, Transvaal Daisy)

Gerbera daisy is a favorite cutflower and tender perennial for containers and mixed beds. It is a South African native, so it grows best in places where summers are cool.

When growing conditions are favorable, it bears large daisies year-round (with peaks in late spring and late fall). These may be red, orange, yellow, white or pink and appear above evergreen mounds of large, shallowly lobed, dark green leaves. Flowers have very large centers, often in contrasting colors, that may be red, yellow,...

(Barberton Daisy, Gerbera Daisy, Revolution Gerbera Daisy, Transvaal Daisy)

Gerbera daisies in the Revolution series are compact tender perennials that are ideal for containers and mixed beds. They produce very large, colorful daisies year-round (with blooming peaks in late spring and late fall). These may be white, orange, yellow, red or rose and appear above evergreen mounds of large, shallowly lobed, dark green leaves. They also have very large centers in various contrasting colors. Spent flowers should be removed to encourage further blooms.

These plants prefer cooler...

(Barberton Daisy, Gerbera Daisy, Royal Gerbera Daisy, Transvaal Daisy)

Gerbera daisies in the Royal series are more prostrate and heavily flowering tender perennials that are ideal for containers and mixed beds. This series of twenty varieties produces very large, colorful daisies year-round (with blooming peaks in late spring and late fall). These may be white, orange, yellow, red or rose and appear above evergreen mounds of large, shallowly lobed, dark green leaves. They also have very large centers in various contrasting colors. Spent flowers should be removed to...

(Tahitian Bridalveil)

Forming a cascading veil of purplish-green foliage and petite white flowers, this trailing herbaceous perennial from tropical America is perfect for containers and hanging baskets.

The fuzzy, lance-shaped leaves of this tender perennial are paired along lax, wiry, purple-tinged stems that root at the leaf nodes. The leaves usually have maroon undersides. Clusters of small, white, three-petaled flowers are held above the foliage on long stems, creating a wispy, veil-like effect. Flowering continues...

(Blue Thimble Flower, Field Gilia, Gillyflower)

When the meager wild grasses wither away on the dry, sunny soil in summer, the blue thimble flower is looking healthy and showing off its lavender-blue blossoms. A fast-growing annual wildflower, it's native to coastal western North America, from British Columbia to California. It will reseed itself annually, with new plants sprouting up each spring in a landscape.

Blue thimble flower grows erect with feathery green foliage. Each wispy leaf is double branched and comprises numerous short, thin...

(Tampa Mock Vervain)

Slowly sprawling into a wide, gently mounded mass, Tampa mock vervain's rosy pink flowers occur nearly year 'round but most prolificly in spring. A short-lived perennial that readily sows itself, it is an evergreen that may also be used as an annual in regions that have mild winters with only the lightest of frosts. It is native to (and endangered in) the moist sunny woodlands of coastal southern Florida in the United States.

The jagged-edged, oval leaves are dark green and slightly rough to...

(Mexican Lilac, Mother-of-coffee, Quickstick)

Filling the tropical countryside with pink-flowering branches that look like apple or cherry trees in springtime, quickstick's pink blossoms are a delightful sight. A fast growing, very briefly deciduous tree from tropical reaches of the New World, it has a orange-tan bark and its sapwood is heavy and strong. It will attain a rounded canopy, but often it is rather open and rangy in appearance.

Historically, this tree was grown over the cacao (chocolate tree) in fields by the Aztecs and more...