(Blue Mist Shrub, Blue Spirea, Bluebeard, Kew Blue Bluebeard)

Prized for its prolific late-summer display of blue flowers, Caryopteris × clandonensis is a small deciduous shrub originating from a cross between C. incana and C. mongholica. The rich blue flowers of 'Kew Blue' are darker than those of many other bluebeard cultivars. It originated in 1945 as a seedling of the original C. × clandonensis cultivar, 'Arthur Simmonds'.

This rounded, knee- to waist-high shrub is densely cloaked...

(Bluebeard, Hint of Gold Bluebeard)

The heavenly bluebeard 'Lisaura' offers deep violet-blue flowers in fall. This vigorous small flowering shrub is as tough and drought tolerant as it is pretty. The hybrid is usually sold under the trade name Hint of Gold and originates from a cross between the two Asian species Caryopteris incana and C. mongholica.

The deciduous shrub has a mounding, rounded habit and becomes covered with many small, toothed leaves that emerge green but quickly change to golden yellow. They...

(Blue Mist Shrub, Blue Spirea, Bluebeard, Longwood Blue Bluebeard)

The popular bluebeard 'Longwood Blue' offers lovely soft violet-blue flowers in late summer to fall. This vigorous small flowering shrub is as tough and drought tolerant as it is pretty. The hybrid originates from a cross between the two Asian species Caryopteris incana and C. mongholica and was bred at the famed Longwood Gardens in Kennett Square, Pennsylvania.

The deciduous shrub has a uniform mounding, rounded habit and becomes covered with many small silvery gray toothed...

(Blue Mist Shrub, Blue Spirea, Bluebeard, Summer Sorbet Bluebeard)

The terrific variegated bluebeard 'Summer Sorbet' offers light blue flowers in late summer to fall. This vigorous small flowering shrub is as tough and drought tolerant as it is pretty. The hybrid originates from a cross between the two Asian species Caryopteris incana and C. mongholica and was derived from a mutation of the popular cultivar ‘Kew Blue.’

The deciduous shrub has a mounding, rounded habit and becomes covered with many small green leaves edged in yellow, which...

(Bluebeard, White Surprise Bluebeard)

The heavenly bluebeard 'White Surprise' offers soft blue flowers in fall. This vigorous small flowering shrub is as tough and drought tolerant as it is pretty. It was discovered as a sport of 'Heavenly Blue', a hybrid which originates from a cross between the two Asian species Caryopteris incana and C. mongholica.

The deciduous shrub has a mounding, rounded habit and becomes covered with many small, toothed green leaves each with an irregular white border. The foliage has...

(Blue Mist Shrub, Blue Spirea, Bluebeard, Worchester Gold Bluebeard)

The popular golden-leaved bluebeard 'Worcester Gold' offers lovely soft violet-blue flowers in late summer to fall. This vigorous small flowering shrub is as tough and drought tolerant as it is pretty. The hybrid originates from a cross between the two Asian species Caryopteris incana and C. mongholica.

The deciduous shrub has a uniform mounding, rounded habit and becomes covered with many small golden to chartreuse toothed leaves that have a minty scent if crushed. In the...

(Giant Fishtail Palm)

Named for the unusual shape of its leaf segments, this towering, single-trunked palm from upland rain forests of Southeast Asia is one of the largest and most spectacular plants for tropical gardens. A monocarpic palm, it dies after it flowers and fruits.

Borne on massive leaf stems ("petioles"), the enormous, upright or inclined, evergreen fronds can be as long as a small bus. Each frond comprises numerous broad, somewhat triangular, bright green leaflets, borne in two ranks along a midrib...

(Fishtail Wine Palm, Solitary Fishtail Palm, Toddy Palm)

Named for the unusual shape of its leaf segments, this large, single-trunked palm from India and Southeast Asia is one of the most spectacular foliage plants for tropical gardens. A monocarpic palm, it dies after it flowers and fruits.

Borne on massive leaf stems ("petioles"), the enormous, arching, evergreen fronds are arranged spirally on the upper reaches of the stout trunk. Each frond comprises numerous long, triangular, bright green leaflets, borne in two ranks along a midrib (or "rachis")....

(White Sapote)

The tasty tropical fruit, white sapote, is a relatively obscure but close cousin of citrus. In addition to its fine fruit, it has a pretty form and multicolored bark. Native to the middle highland elevations of southern Mexico and Central America, this broadly branched tree is usually evergreen but frost and drought can cause leaf drop, so it is better listed as semi-evergreen. When mature, it attains a somewhat weeping form and curvaceous trunk and branches. Its bark is warty, thick and gray with...

(American Chestnut)

A massive deciduous tree, the American chestnut has bristled leaves and sweet edible nuts. Native to the interior eastern United States, it is a slow-growing, broad and round-canopied tree that has gray to grayish-brown bark. It also occurs in Canada's southern Ontario, making it the nation's only native chestnut. Since the 1930s, this species has been devastated by chestnut blight (Cryphonectria parasitica), so severely that remaining plants resprout from their trunks to merely form large...