(Powder Puff Tree, Stickpea)

Powderpuff tree puts on its show in fall and winter, blooming with distinctive magenta-red flowers. A native of Bolivia, this evergreen, large shrub or small tree is fast growing, attaining a rounded to sprawling habit with long, arching branches.

The fine-textured leaves are compound, made up of five to ten pairs of small oval leaflets that are coppery pink when young and mature to green. This plant can flower anytime year round, but blooms most when days are short, from fall to spring. The buds...

(Dwarf Powder Puff, Dwarf Red Powder Puff, Dwarf Stickpea)

The cute, mounding dwarf powderpuff puts on its show in fall and winter, blooming with distinctive magenta-red flowers. A native of Bolivia, this evergreen shrub is fast growing, attaining a rounded to sprawling habit with long, arching branches.

The fine-textured leaves are compound, made up of five to ten pairs of small oval leaflets that are coppery pink when young and mature to green. This plant can flower anytime year round, but blooms most when days are short, from fall to spring. The buds...

(American Beautyberry)

The arching branches and unusual violet purple berries of American beautyberry are the main selling points of this hardy deciduous shrub. Native to southeastern America from Texas across to Maryland, this interesting wild shrub is similar to Asian beautyberry species but has a rougher, more informal look. Mature specimens are large, bushy and develop either a horizontal or upright habit. Native populations exist in open woods and thickets.

American beautyberry has long arching stems lined with...

(American Beautyberry)

This is the naturally occurring white berried form of the normally violet purple berried American beautyberry. Native to southeastern America from Texas across to Maryland, this interesting wild shrub is similar to Asian beautyberry species but has a rougher, more informal look. Mature specimens are large, bushy and develop either a horizontal or upright habit. Native populations exist in open woods and thickets.

White American beautyberry has long arching stems lined with soft pale green leaves...

(Wine Cups)

A drought-tolerant powerhouse, wine cups is so delicate and colorful you will find it hard to believe it is tough. This native of the central and eastern United States is a low-growing, herbaceous perennial that produces many large, vivid magenta, cupped flowers in the heat of summer. These appear above deeply lobed, palm-shaped leaves of medium green.

Once established, wine cups will thrive in full sun and average to poor soil. It will not tolerate "wet feet", so be sure you plant them in well...

(Mexican Wine Cups, Poppy Mallow, Wine Cups)

A drought-tolerant powerhouse, wine cups is so delicate and colorful you will find it hard to believe it is tough. This native of the central and eastern United States is a low-growing, herbaceous perennial that produces many large, vivid magenta, cupped flowers in the heat of summer. These appear above deeply lobed, palm-shaped leaves of medium green.

Once established, wine cups will thrive in full sun and average to poor soil. It will not tolerate "wet feet", so be sure you plant them in well...

(Basket Plant, Chain Plant, Inchplant)

Thin, fleshy leaves that are light green and purple line the sprawling, octopus-like stems of chain plant and small fragrant white flowers appear in late winter. A succulent tender perennial from Mexico, it can become a large mounded mass of foliage outdoors or a lovely hanging basket specimen as a houseplant.

The long, lance-shaped leaves are a bright green with edges thinly or messily lined in dark purple. The leaf undersides are usually this same deep purple hue. These leaves are spiraled...

(Crimson Bottlebrush)

Named and grown for its fuzzy spikes of bright red flowers, crimson bottlebrush is a large, spreading, evergreen shrub or small tree native to eastern Australia. It has stiff, flat, narrow, lance-shaped, green leaves which are coppery colored when young and which emit a lemony aroma when crushed. The flowers appear in heaviest abundance in spring and summer, attracting hummingbirds. The fruits are cup-shaped, small and woody and release hundreds of tiny seeds. The bark is gray to grayish brown in...

Named and grown for its fuzzy spikes of bright red flowers, crimson bottlebrush is a large, spreading, evergreen shrub or small tree native to eastern Australia. It has stiff, flat, narrow, lance-shaped, green leaves which are coppery colored when young and which emit a lemony aroma when crushed. The flowers appear in heaviest abundance in spring and summer, attracting hummingbirds. The fruits are cup-shaped, small and woody and release hundreds of tiny seeds. The bark is gray to grayish brown in...

(Compact Crimson Bottlebrush, Crimson Bottlebrush)

Named and grown for its fuzzy spikes of bright red flowers, crimson bottlebrush is a large, spreading, evergreen shrub or small tree native to eastern Australia. It has stiff, flat, narrow, lance-shaped, green leaves which are coppery colored when young and which emit a lemony aroma when crushed. The flowers appear in heaviest abundance in spring and summer, attracting hummingbirds. The fruits are cup-shaped, small and woody and release hundreds of tiny seeds. The bark is gray to grayish brown in...