(Trailing Gazania, Trailing Treasure Flower)

Trailing treasure flower is a low, evergreen flowering perennial that is grown as a bedding annual in temperate regions. Gazania rigens var. leucolaena is a species' variety that originates from southern Africa. It develops spreading clumps of green to silvery gray foliage that blanket the ground. Throughout the growing season many golden yellow daisies are produced just above the foliage. The blossoms close at night and on overcast days. Bees pollinate the blooms and heads of fuzzy...

(Australian Willow, Wilga)

Finely textured leaves and a slightly weeping habit make this an elegant tree for hot, dry climates. A small, slow-growing, broadleaf evergreen from eastern Australia, it has ascending, arching central branches and pendulous outer branches, the whole forming a rounded crown. Branching begins low on the trunk. The aromatic, willowy, narrowly lance shaped leaves dangle gracefully from the branches. They are shiny dark green in partially shaded sites, and somewhat paler in sunny locations. This tree...

(Carolina Jessamine)

Carolina jessamine is a twining evergreen vine that is native from the southeastern United States to Mexico, and Central America. The cultivar 'Pride of Augusta' blooms in late winter into early spring and again in the fall with double, funnel-shaped, yellow flowers. Its dense twining stems are lined with shiny dark green leaves that may turn yellow to purple in fall.

Carolina jessamine ‘Pride of Augusta’ is a low-maintenance plant and is happiest in full to partial sun and slightly acidic, organic-rich...

(Lydia Broom)

Lydia woadwaxen is a lovely small deciduous shrub from rocky slopes of southeastern Europe and western, northern, and southern Turkey. In gardens it is represented mostly by prostrate forms, but in the wild it is often upright in habit. A noninvasive cousin of the familiar tall brooms (Cytisus spp.), it bears stiff branches and smallish green leaves for a fine textured look. The stems spread around stones and cascade gracefully off ledges. Their green color is welcome in the winter garden....

(Sweet Broom)

Silky woadwaxen is a lovely prostrate deciduous shrub from mountains and heathlands of Europe. A noninvasive cousin of the familiar tall brooms (Cytisus spp.), it bears stiff branches and smallish green leaves for a fine textured look. The stems scramble around stones and cascade gracefully off ledges, eventually covering an area many times their height. Their gray-green color is welcome in the winter garden. Growth rate is moderate. In mid-spring plants engulf themselves in masses of intense...

(Sweet Broom, Vancouver Gold Sweet Broom)

Silky woadwaxen is a lovely prostrate deciduous shrub from mountains and heathlands of Europe. Selected in British Columbia, Canada, 'Vancouver Gold' is among its most widely grown cultivars. A noninvasive cousin of the familiar tall brooms (Cytisus spp.), it bears stiff branches and smallish green leaves for a fine textured look. The stems scramble around stones and cascade gracefully off ledges, eventually covering an area many times their height. Their gray-green color is welcome in the...

(Sweet Broom)

This beautiful broom brightens the late winter garden and ushers in early spring with its branches of golden yellow flowers. Some believe that this semi-evergreen shrub is actually a naturally occurring hybrid between two Genista from the Canary Islands Genista stenopetalus and G. canariensis, but this is not confirmed.

It is a large attractive shrub with slender upright and arching branches lined with very small green leaves. These branches were once cut and bundled...

(Hybrid Cranesbill)

The vigorous and beautiful hybrid cransebill ‘Blogold’ was a chance seedling found by Hans Kramer in The Netherlands and introduced as Blue Sunrise by Blooms of Bressingham. Its exact parentage is uncertain.

This exceptional Geranium is one of the best because of its larger blossoms. It maintains a mounded habit and has yellow-green, palmate leaves that are deeply divided, first chartreuse when young. From early summer to fall, it produces many large violet-blue flowers with plum veins...

(Hybrid Ashy Cranesbill)

This hardy Cranesbill is a low-growing perennial native to the Pyrenees Mountains, which divide Spain and France. It is a very pretty mound-forming perennial that offers five-petaled purple or lavender-pink flowers from late spring to early summer.

Hardy geraniums (not to be confused with greenhouse geraniums, which belong to the genus Pelargonium) are a diverse group of herbaceous perennials found throughout the temperate regions. The cultivar 'Carol' is a heavy-bloomer, bearing cup-shaped,...

(Hybrid Cranesbill)

The richly dark-foliaged ‘Cheryl's Shadow’ produces small light pink flowers in summertime. This chance seedling was discoverd in 1999 in Arroyo Grande, California and then selected and named by David Fross.

This exceptional Geranium is one of the best of all dark leaf cranesbills. It maintains a low, mounding habit and has dark purple to burgnudy-chocolate colored leaves that are round but edged ion wavy scallops. From late spring to fall, it produces lovely pale pink flowers low among...