(Flame Honeysuckle, Wright's Desert Honeysuckle)

Certain to attract hummingbirds, flame honeysuckle explodes with vibrant orange colored blossoms from midummer to fall. A deciduous shrub that attains an irregularly rounded shape with upright branches, it is native to the Edwards Plateau of Texas into northermost Mexico.

The dull light to medium green leaves are small and lance-like, sometimes having a hint of white or silver on them. Beginning as early as midsummer, peaking in early autumn and waning until late autumn, the branch tips are...

(Hybrid Cape Mallow, Slightly Strawberry™ Cape Mallow )

A hybrid developed as part of a breeding program in Cobbitty, New South Wales, Australia, in 2004, the Slightly Strawberry™ cape mallow freely produces bicolored lavender-pink and red blossoms. Its parentage stems from species native to South Africa. Cape mallow is an evergreen shrub or woody-stemmed perennial with an informal habit. It bears a profusion of pretty flowers from spring until frost or year round in warm climates. Deadheading isn't necessary and plants are drought-tolerant once established.

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(Cape African Queen, Cape Mallow)

Cape mallow is an evergreen hybrid shrub with an informal habit. It bears a profusion of small pretty flowers from spring until frost or all year round in warm climates.

Its stems are slender, upright, green or purple and covered with dense hairs. They support fuzzy leaves that are three-lobed, oblong and alternate on the stem. The flowers look a bit like Rose-of-Sharon blooms. They are five-petaled, funnel-shaped and medium to deep red with a dark eye and venation.

Plant Cape mallow in full...

(Sugar Apple)

This is a small, tropical semi-deciduous tree, named and grown for its unusual, delicious fruits called sugar apples, sweetsops or custard apples. They have a thick rind divided into knobby segments that separate when the fruit ripens to reveal conical, creamy-white segments of sweet, fragrant flesh, some containing a single seed. The flowers are fragrant and bloom on the branch tips singly or in clusters of two to four. Never fully open, they are yellow-green on the outside and pale yellow on the...

(African Ansellia, Leopard Orchid)

A magnificent large orchid with spotted flowers in late spring and summer, leopard orchid also has a white root mass that forms a bucket-like clump that naturally vegetates treetops. A cold-tender evergreen from the drier forests across all of tropical sub-Saharan Africa, from the coastal plains to interior highlands, it is varies widely in flower color.

The giant plant produces many cane-like noded pseudobulbs that carry six to seven strap-like green leaves. From late spring to summer, each...

(Alpine Marguerite, Marschall's Chamomile)

Bearing long-lasting, daisy-like flowers in summer, alpine marguerite is also notable for its aromatic gray leaves. Native to the Caucasus region and northern Turkey, it is a low, mounding plant with fernlike, deeply lobed, silvery to gray-green leaves. In late spring or early summer, small daisies, with yellow petals and a yellow central disc, are held above the foliage. Bees and butterflies visit the blooms.

Alpine marguerite must grow in soils with good drainage and full sun to partial shade....

(Chervil, French Chervil)

The lush, green, fern-like foliage of chervil has the flavor of parsley and anise and bears airy umbels of white flowers in summer. This fast growing annual forms a lush, mounded clump of upright, leafy stems when temperatures are cool and mild. It is native to Europe and western Asia where its greens are used to flavor many dishes. In fact, it is best known as a component of the classic French herb mixture, fines herbes, which also contains chives, parsley, tarragon and marjoram, among others.

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(Anthurium)

The Red Hot™ hybrid Anthurium produces loads of glossy red flowers through the year above uniform, upright plants with large, heart-shaped green leaves. It was developed by Oglesby Plants International, Inc. in Altha, Florida for the commercial houseplant, interiorscape and tropical landscape markets.

This clump-forming plant has large, spade-shaped leaves that are pleasingly glossy. Like most Anthurium, its leaves tend to shift to track the sun, which is an interesting feature....

(Anthurium)

The Pacora™ hybrid Anthurium has large, heart-shaped green leaves, a uniform, well-branched habit and produces loads of glossy red flowers through the year. It was developed by Oglesby Plants International, Inc. in Altha, Florida for the commercial houseplant, interiorscape and tropical landscape markets. It was bred as a cross between Anthurium 'Ruth Morat' and an unnamed Anthurium andreanum seedling.

This clump-forming plant has thick, heart-shaped leaves that are...

(Anthurium)

Anthurium is a large genus of more than 700 species and many more cultivated varieties. These are naturally distributed across the warm, humid, tropical regions of Mexico south to Brazil and Ecuador. Desirable species were brought to Hawaii late in the 1800’s where they are now a significant horticultural crop. Most varieties in commercial production are hybrids that are favored as houseplants, conservatory specimens and container or bedding plants where growing conditions are favorable....