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John Rickard
(Queen Victoria Agave, Queen Victoria Century Plant)
Considered the queen of agaves with its geometric leaves and rounded form, this small succulent evergreen rules tabletop container gardens and is a crowning glory for arid landscapes. Nearly extinct in the wild largely due to collecting, this Mexican native is protected by laws prohibiting possession of wild gathered plants. What makes this species so coveted is its exceptional geometric beauty, with symmetrical rosettes of distinctive triangular leaves of dull to deep green outlined and accentuated...
Jessie Keith
(Queen Victoria Agave, Variegated Queen Victoria Century Plant)
Considered the queen of agaves with its geometric leaves and rounded form, this small succulent evergreen rules tabletop container gardens and is a crowning glory for arid landscapes. Nearly extinct in the wild largely due to collecting, this Mexican native is protected by laws prohibiting possession of wild gathered plants. What makes this species so coveted is its exceptional geometric beauty, with symmetrical rosettes of distinctive triangular leaves of dull to deep green outlined and accentuated...
Maureen Gilmer
(Weber's Agave, Weber's Century Plant)
A huge silvery blue agave ideal for large, open gardens where it can achieve its magnificent stature, this succulent evergreen is naturalized in Mexico and Texas but is unknown in the wild. Like sisal (Agave sisalana), it may have originated in ancient Mexico as a cultivated hybrid grown for its fibers. Forming immense rosettes atop short trunks, the long, dagger-shaped, spine-tipped leaves vary in size as well as in the presence of minute marginal teeth. Blue coloring becomes more pronounced...
James H. Schutte
(Leopold's Hybrid Agave)
The genus Agave has more than 200 species of desert-loving perennials with dramatic, structurally interesting foliage. They are all from the warmer regions of the New World, mostly Mexico and Central and South America. They are beautiful ornamentals and important plants for food and utility.
Agave have fleshly leaves that form rosettes close to the ground or occasionally atop very short stout stems. The leaves may be thick and leathery, linear or sword-shaped, wide or narrow...
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(Willow Myrtle)
Beautiful and drought resistant, this small to medium-sized, semi-weeping evergreen tree from western Australia makes an excellent plant for gardens where winters and summers are mild. The long, lance shaped, bright green leaves dangle from weeping branchlets, giving the tree a willowy appearance. The leaves smell of peppermint. Masses of small white flowers crowd the branches in late spring and early summer. Plants eventually form a dense wide-spreading canopy and root system, making them unsuitable...
James Burghardt
(Coyore, Macaw Palm)
This small, graceful, but heavily armed palm tree is found in rain forests and seasonally dry woodlands of Puerto Rico, Hispaniola, and the Lesser Antilles.
Borne atop a single, slender, gray to tan trunk that brandishes numerous long black spines, the enormous, arching, ferny leaves have numerous narrowly lance-shaped leaflets. The leaflets arise from a long central axis known as a rachis. The rachis and the undersides of the leaves are also heavily armed, as is the long leaf stem ("petiole")....
James Burghardt
(Begonialeaf Alangium, Chinese Alangium)
Lovely green leaves with short pointed lobes adorn the zig-zagged branches of Chinese alangium. Blooming in early summer and again in mid-autumn, the small oval fruits turn dark blue in autumn, too. A large shrub to small tree that is evergreen in frost-free climates but deciduous elsewhere, it is native to a large expanse of southern Asia's Himalayas eastward into the highlands of southeast Asia. Natural variant forms can also be found in eastern Africa.
The leaves are rounded when young, having...
(Flame Silktree, Persian Silktree, Pink Siris, Silky Mimosa)
A favorite of hummingbirds, silk tree is a multi-stemmed, spreading deciduous tree native from Iran to Japan. Its cultivar 'Flame' bears fragrant, fluffy, rose-pink flowerheads in summer and tan seed pods in fall. The ferny light green leaves emerge in late spring, and fold at night.
Silk tree thrives in most well-drained soils and flowers best in full sun. Its dome-like canopy is good for shading patios. It often self-sows prolifically.
Gerald L. Klingaman
(Persian Silktree, Pink Siris, Silky Mimosa)
A favorite of hummingbirds, silk tree is a multi-stemmed, spreading deciduous tree native from Iran to Japan. Its natural form rosea bears fragrant, fluffy, rich rose-pink flowerheads in summer and tan seed pods in fall. The ferny light green leaves emerge in late spring, and fold up at night. It includes the cultivar 'Ernest Wilson', a hardy selection that succeeds into USDA zone 5.
Silk tree thrives in most well-drained soils and flowers best in full sun. It is tolerant of drought,...
James Burghardt
(Alcantarea)
No tropical garden is complete without a giant alcantarea! Larger than a bushel basket, the rosette of strappy light green leaves eventually forms a towering red flower stalk with curving yellow bracts and ivory flowers. This evergreen perennial bromeliad is a lithophyte (growing among and upon rocks) native to the montane cliffs in extreme southeastern Brazil.
Each leaf is light green, occasionally with speckles or a casting of gray, and strap-like. It tapers to a soft point while the base...
