(Garden Catmint)

The floriferous catmint 'Dropmore' is a super tough ornamental for full sun. It has a more upright habit than others, greener foliage and a more compact habit.

Catmint is an aromatic hardy perennial that is a hybrid cross between Nepeta nepetella and N. racemosa. In spring 'Dropmore' produces a neat bushy mound of small, soft green, scalloped leaves that are slightly hairy. By late spring it offers many loose spikes of lavender-blue flowers. These are highly attractive to bees...

(Garden Catmint)

This is a top notch tough perennial for full sun. Catmint is pretty for most of the summer and there are lots of super cultivars that mingle well with other colorful sunny ornamentals.

This aromatic hardy perennial is a hybrid cross between Nepeta nepetella and N. racemosa. In spring it produces a bushy mound of small, gray-green, scalloped leaves that are slightly hairy. By late spring it offers loose spikes of lavender-blue or violet-blue flowers. These are highly...

(Garden Catmint, Walkers Low Catmint)

The compact catmint, 'Walker's Low', is a super tough summer perennial for full sun. This aromatic, blue-flowered beauty is a hybrid cross between Nepeta nepetella and N. racemosa. In spring, it produces a neat bushy mound of small, gray-green, scalloped leaves that are slightly hairy. By early summer, it offers many loose, upright spikes of violet-blue flowers. These are highly attractive to bees and will reliably re-bloom if spent flower stems are pinched off.

The toughness...

(Southern Swordfern)

This is one of the few ferns that thrives in warm climates, where it provides distinctive foliage for landscaping. It is native to the tropics around the world and has proven itself over time as an exceptionally vigorous tall ground cover. It resembles the more delicate Boston fern, forming a mound of arching and upright fronds. The lime-green leaves rise out of traveling underground stems that spread so quickly they border on invasive.

Its value lies in its elegant fronds that are long and narrow,...

(Cape Lily, Guernsey Lily)

Lilies are a rare sight in the fall landscape, which makes the pink-flowered Guernsey lily an especially welcome garden flower. This late season bloomer offers tall, leafless stems topped with a whorl of delicate, fragrant, ruffled lilies of white or pink. It is native to South Africa and borne from a tender bulb that may become dormant when summer conditions turn hot and dry.

In late fall or early winter, the Guernsey lily produces clumps of broad, strappy leaves of medium green. In its...

(Oleander)

Oleander is a tough Mediterranean shrub that thrives where summers are dry and hot. It is a large, evergreen shrub with bushy, rounded to vase-shaped habit. Leathery, linear, lance-shaped leaves line the branches throughout the year and emit white latex when broken. The colorful flowers appear all year around but bloom most heavily from late winter to early summer. They are borne in loose clusters at the ends of the branches and are funnel-shaped at the base with five prominent radial petals that...

(Calypso Oleander, Oleander)

The red-flowered ‘Calypso’ is a large shrub with medium green foliage and greater cold tolerance than most oleanders.

Oleander is a tough Mediterranean shrub that thrives where summers are dry and hot. It is a large, evergreen shrub with bushy, rounded to vase-shaped habit. Leathery, linear, lance-shaped leaves line the branches throughout the year and emit white latex when broken. The colorful flowers appear all year around but bloom most heavily from late winter to early summer. They are borne...

(Cherry Ripe Oleander, Oleander)

True to its name, the cultivar 'Cherry Ripe' bears bright scarlet-red, single flowers that are softly scented and appear with profusion.

Oleander is a tough Mediterranean shrub that thrives where summers are dry and hot. It is a large, evergreen shrub with bushy, rounded to vase-shaped habit. Leathery, linear, lance-shaped leaves line the branches throughout the year and emit white latex when broken. The colorful flowers appear all year around but bloom most heavily from late winter to early...

(Hardy Pink Oleander, Oleander)

The pretty ‘Hardy Pink’ is vigorous, withstands temperature extremes better than other oleanders and is prized for the abundant, long-lasting blooms.

Oleander is a tough Mediterranean shrub that thrives where summers are dry and hot. It is a large, evergreen shrub with bushy, rounded to vase-shaped habit. Leathery, linear, lance-shaped leaves line the branches throughout the year and emit white latex when broken. The colorful flowers appear all year around but bloom most heavily from late winter...

(Hardy Red Oleander, Oleander)

The cultivar ‘Hardy Red’ is vigorous, withstands temperature extremes better than other oleanders and is prized for the abundant, long-lasting blooms.

Oleander is a tough Mediterranean shrub that thrives where summers are dry and hot. It is a large, evergreen shrub with bushy, rounded to vase-shaped habit. Leathery, linear, lance-shaped leaves line the branches throughout the year and emit white latex when broken. The colorful flowers appear all year around but bloom most heavily from late winter...