(Apache Beggarticks, Bidens, Marietta™ Gold Spark Bidens)

By far one of the finest Bidens on the market for blooming performance and form, Marietta Gold Spark has a highly compact habit and flowers heavily and continuously all season. This cultivar originates from the southern United States and Mexico, is heat-loving and has dense, ferny, rich green foliage. From early summer to fall it becomes adorned with a colorful display of many golden yellow daisies. These are attractive to bees and butterflies and require little deadheading.

A tough plant for...

(Apache Beggarticks, Bidens, Yellow Breeze Bidens)

This bidens, ‘Yellow Breeze,’ is a long-blooming selection of Bidens ferulifolia, a native of the southwestern U.S and contiguous regions of Mexico. It is a sprawling, ferny-leaved, short-lived perennial that covers itself with light-yellow flowers from late spring through autumn until frost. The flowers are open with broad overlapping petals and a central disk. They face upward on short stems above the leaves. Like the parent species, ‘Yellow Breeze’ tolerates heat and has little appeal...

(Apache Beggarticks, Yellow Charm Apache Beggarticks)

A short-lived perennial, often grown as an annual, Yellow Charm Apache beggarticks is a mound-forming selection with eight-petaled flowers. The daisy-like flowers occur from early summer to mid- or late fall, showing off their yellow petals that blush deeper gold around the central disc. This plant species originates from the southern United States and Mexico. It is heat-loving and has fern-like, rich green foliage. The blossoms are attractive to bees and butterflies and require little deadheading....

A short-lived perennial, often grown as an annual, Yellow Crown Apache beggarticks is a mounded dome-forming selection with lemony-yellow flowers. The daisy-like flowers occur from early summer to mid- or late fall, attracting bees and butterflies. This plant species originates from the southern United States and Mexico. It is heat-loving and has fern-like, rich green foliage. Flowers also smell faintly of honey. Little deadheading - the cutting off of old flowers -- is required to keep this plant...

(Apache Beggarticks, Bidens, Goldilocks Rocks™ Bidens)

A short-lived perennial, often grown as an annual, Goldilocks Rocks™ Apache beggarticks is a upright-growing mounded variety. It is early flowering and holds the flower clusters on fairly sturdy stems above the foliage. This plant species originates from the southern United States and Mexico. Apache beggarticks is heat-loving and has fern-like, rich green foliage. From early summer to fall it becomes adorned with a showy display of many bright yellow daisies, perhaps with a hint of gold tones. These...

(Apache Beggarticks, Mexican Gold™ Compact Apache Beggarticks)

Lacy foliage and small, five-petaled yellow flowers always are a cheerful addition to a garden. A short-lived perennial, often grown as an annual, Mexican Gold™ Compact Apache beggarticks is a mounding variety that's perfect for mixed-composition patio containers or as border edging. It is early flowering and holds the flower clusters on wiry stems above the foliage. This plant species originates from the southern United States and Mexico. Apache beggarticks is heat-loving and has fern-like, rich...

(Solaire® Beggarticks)

The Solaire® Series of Apache beggarticks is a collection of the most compact varieties bred for container culture. While this species is usually a short-lived, spreading perennial, often grown as an annual, members in the Solaire® Series perform as annuals, dying out after about a year even if ideal growing conditions prevail. Plants are mounds of fine-textured, deep green leaves. From early summer to fall's first frost, yellow to gold flowers delicately float on stems above the foliage.

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(Golden Eye Beggarticks)

A large, shrubby perennial with ferny leaves along wiry stems and yellow daisy-like broad-petaled flowers in profusion in fall. It is native from Mexico to South America and close kin to coreopsis and cosmos. Beggar’s tick is a short, spreading tender evergreen that is native from Arizona to Guatemala. The leaves are narrow, ferny or fennel-like. The flowers appear on long, nodding, wiry stems, which makes bidens a good plant to be used as an annual in a hanging basket or a container. It will...

(Purple Trumpet Vine)

Purple trumpet vine is a fast growing broad-leafed evergreen vine that blooms spring through autumn. It is native to Argentina and Brazil. The somewhat fragrant flowers are lavender, violet, or pale purple with throats of yellow.

Purple trumpet vine climbs easily over trellises, fences and walls. Plant it in a moist, well drained soil in partial shade to nearly full sun. It looks its best if given a break from the hottest midday sunrays. Prune the plant back in late winter if it becomes entangled...

(Queen's Tears)

Queen's tears is a clump forming, epiphyte to semi-epiphyte with narrow, pendent, unusually colored flowers. The tubular blooms have reflexed green petals with narrow bands of purplish blue around their edges and are supported by showy reddish pink bracts. The plant resembles a fountain-shaped grass until the short red flower stalks and blooms appear. Native populations of this bromeliad exist from southern Brazil to Paraguay where they grow on both trees and the forest floor.

In warm climates,...