(Narrowleaf Angelon, Serena™ Lavender Pink Angelonia, Serena™ Lavender Pink Summer Snapdragon, Summer Snapdragon)

Angelonia or summer snapdragon is a tender perennial native to Mexico and the West Indies which is often planted as an annual. The dark green leaves are lance-shaped and evergreen only in frost-free zones. Tall spikes of tubular, two-lipped, snapdragon-like flowers appear throughout the growing season. The cultivar ‘Serena Lavender Pink’ plants are compact, branch freely, and produce and abundance of sturdy flower spikes which rarely need staking. Flower color is rosy-lavender with a white and burgundy...

(Narrowleaf Angelon, Serena™ Lavender Angelonia, Summer Snapdragon)

Serena lavender summer snapdragon, is a vigorous, upright perennial to tender perennial that originates from Mexico and the islands of the West Indies. This super floriferous selection bears many loose spikes of showy, open, snapdragon-like flowers of lavender throughout the growing season. It is drought and heat tolerant and does best in sites with full sun and average, well drained soil. Enjoy this low maintenance plant in containers, or mixed beds and borders. The flowers of summer snapdragon...

(Narrowleaf Angelon, Serena™ Purple Angelonia, Summer Snapdragon)

Angelonia or summer snapdragon is a tender perennial native to Mexico and the West Indies which is often planted as an annual. The dark green leaves are lance-shaped and evergreen only in frost-free zones. Tall spikes of tubular, two-lipped, snapdragon-like flowers appear throughout the growing season. The cultivar ‘Serena Purple’ plants are compact, branch freely, and produce and abundance of sturdy flower spikes which rarely need staking. Flower color is purple with a white spotted and striped...

(Narrowleaf Angelon, Serena™ Angelonia, Summer Snapdragon)

Angelonia or summer snapdragon is a tender perennial native to Mexico and the West Indies which is often planted as an annual. The dark green leaves are lance-shaped and evergreen only in frost-free zones. Tall spikes of tubular, two-lipped, snapdragon-like flowers appear throughout the growing season. The ‘Serena’ series plants are compact, branch freely, and produce and abundance of sturdy flower spikes which rarely need staking. The colors available include ‘Serena White,’ ‘Serena Purple,’ ‘Serena...

(Angraecum Orchid, Orchid)

Intrigue, murder and thievery have followed the orchid; world explorations have been launched and fortunes won all in the pursuit of these exotic flowers. Since the 19th century, when tropical orchids were first introduced to Europe, orchids have inspired human desire and greed because of their rarity, collectability and indescribable beauty.

Measured in geologic time Orchidaceae was once thought to be a newer family but recent research has shown it is much older. One of the largest plant families,...

(Angraecum Orchid, Comet Orchid)

With fantastic drooping stems lined with apple green and white flowers, Angraecum eburneum is a large clump-forming orchid that bedazzles from mid-autumn through to winter. A tropical orchid native to the highly moist forests of eastern Madagascar and eastern coastal Africa, its long flower parts are pollinated by hawk moths at night. The starry flowers have long "tails" which is why its common name is the comet orchid.

This epiphyte is rarely found growing on moist rocks, making some...

(Kangaroo Paws)

Talk about fuzzy, funky flowers! Anigozanthos has 11 species that exist across the southwestern reaches of Australia in many habitats from sandy and dry to cool and wet. In recent years these have become horticultural superstars, grown as ornamental plants and cut flowers, so there are many new cultivars hitting the market each year.

These tender perennial herbs grow directly from iris-like thickened rhizomes (underground lateral stems). They spread slowly to form neat clumps. The...

(Bush Pearl Kangaroo Paws, Kangaroo Paws)

The Bush Pearl kangaroo paw is a long-blooming hybrid perennial with eye-catching flowers for warm climates or containers. From late-spring into fall, even year-round in favorable conditions, it blooms on upright, fuzzy stems above its base of evergreen strap-like leaves. Appearing in fan-like clusters, the flowers are slightly curved tubes colored a sweet pink with occasional highlights of a deeper violet-pink.

Descended from parents native to extreme southwestern Western Australia, 'Bush Pearl'...

(Mangles' Kangaroo Paw, Red and Green Kangaroo Paw)

This dainty strap-leaf perennial from the Australian bush offers a truly exotic flower for small gardens. The red and green kangaroo paw is the floral emblem of Western Australia where it grows on the floor of eucalyptus forests. Demanding extremely well-drained, moist sandy soils, it may be grown at slightly elevated locations with heavier soils. Do not group it with desert plants as it cannot withstand extreme low desert heat.

The long, grayish green, iris-like leaves produce clumps that...

(Hybrid Cape Mallow, Tara's Pink Hybrid Cape Mallow)

Overall, the hybrid Anisodontea ‘Tara’s Pink’ is larger and bushier than most, and its pink flowers are larger than those of the two most commonly cultivated species, Anisodontea capensis or Anisodontea x hypomadarum.

Cape mallow is an evergreen hybrid shrub with an informal habit. It bears a profusion of 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...