(Golden Fleece Wooly Yarrow, Wooly Yarrow)

This yarrow cultivar is a mat-forming, hardy, herbaceous perennial with distinctive toothy, hairy leaves that look as if a spider had covered them with silk. The tousled mat of leaves is very low and the flower stems rise only a little higher. The flower custers are tightly made of many gold-yellow flowers with blunt petals and a promiment gold center. Flowering is profuse from early summer to early fall. The parent is wooly yarrow, a species native to southern Europe and western Asia.

Wooly...

(Goldie Yarrow, Wooly Yarrow)

This Achillea species, also known as Wooly yarrow, is a small hardy perennial from southern Europe and western Asia with distinctive gray-green leaves that are lined with so many chubby leaflets that they look almost wooly. The leaves spread close to the ground in a thick, mussy mat from which flower stems rise, topped with a dense cluster of small yellow flowers. Bloom starts in early summer and continues to early fall.

Wooly yarrow has several uses:it can make a thick, flowering groundcover,...

(Carmichael's Monkshood)

Autumn flowered monkshood is a tuberous-rooted perennial originally from China and valued for its late season bloom. The leaves are produced in mounds and are delphinium-like, dark green, deeply dissected, toothed and have a leathery texture. Deep blue-violet flowers, each curiously shaped like a helmet or hood are produced atop leafy, tall, stately spikes in late summer and fall.

Plant monkshood in evenly moist but not wet soil. Full sun to partly shady locations are preferred. Monkshood grows...

(Carmichael's Monkshood)

Autumn flowered monkshood is a tuberous-rooted perennial originally from China and valued for its late season bloom. The Arendsii group hybrids are known for their compact, sturdy flower spikes, large leaves and azure-blue blooms. The leaves are produced in mounds and are delphinium-like, green, deeply dissected, toothed and have a leathery texture. Deep blue flowers, each curiously shaped like a helmet or hood are produced atop leafy, tall, stately spikes in late summer and fall.

Plant monkshood...

(Aechmea , Del Mar Aechmea, Del Mar Bromeliad)

Bromeliad ‘Del Mar’ is a tender tropical perennial grown primarily for its spectacular long-lasting blooms and compact habit. Resulting from a cross between Aechmea fendleri and A. dichlamydea var. trinitensis, it has a rosette of leathery, broadly lance-shaped, medium green leaves with small sharp spines on their edges. The arching leaves form a 30-cm (12-inch) tall, 60-cm (2-foot) wide clump, with a central tube-shaped "cup." A spike of showy flowers with purple...

(Basket Vine)

Aeschynanthus is a genus of approximately 140 species of evergreen tropical flowering plants native to the warm, moist regions of Asia and the Pacific Islands. These herbaceous gesneriads are often called lipstick plants due to their showy flowers that look like lipstick rising from a tube.

They may be shrubs or climbers and many are epiphytic (tree-dwelling) with pendent stems. The leaves are usually leathery or fleshy, opposite on the stem and come in pairs. The form and appearance...

(Zebra Basket Vine)

Imagine walking through the humid rainforests of Southeast Asia and encountering a plant with mottled, snake-like leaves dangling above your head in a tree. You eyes may fool you to think the sprawling, dangling stems are indeed a preying critter ready to attack. The zebra basket vine poses no such threat, but will intrigue you with its foliage and tubular flowers. This mounding to semi-trailing tender perennial subshrub is native to Myanmar, Thailand and Malaysia. It is epiphytic - growing on another...

(Hybrid Basket Vine)

Aeschynanthus is a genus of approximately 140 species of evergreen tropical flowering plants native to the warm, moist regions of Asia and the Pacific Islands. These herbaceous gesneriads are often called lipstick plants due to their showy flowers that look like lipstick rising from a tube.

They may be shrubs or climbers and many are epiphytic (tree-dwelling) with pendent stems. The leaves are usually leathery or fleshy, opposite on the stem and come in pairs. The form and appearance...

(African Lily, Blue Danube Lily-of-the-Nile, Lily-of-the-Nile)

The vigorous lily-of-the-Nile, 'Blue Danube', bears large rounded clusters of light violet-blue flowers on very tall stems. Often listed as a variant of the South African Agapanthus africanus, it is actually a hybrid. Where hardy, it is best grown in the landscape but in colder climates it may be maintained as a container specimen if provided a large spacious pot. Flowering is most profuse from late-spring through summer.

The long strap-like leaves of this tender perennial are medium...

(African Lily, Lily-of-the-Nile, Peter Pan White Lily-of-the-Nile)

The fresh white blooms of 'Peter Pan White' lily-of-the-Nile add a light splash to the flower border. This compact evergreen hybrid produces neat clumps of arching, glossy green, strap-like leaves. Flowering is most profuse from spring through summer.

Even dwarf Agapanthus form substantial clumps that arise from spreading, thick fleshy roots. Though technically evergreen, the foliage may die back until spring if plants are subjected to hard, but not killing, frost. Attractive rounded...