(Angels' Trumpet, Variegated Angels' Trumpet)

Vigorous and lovely, 'Charles Grimaldi is best known for its huge dreamscicle orange flowers. This angel's trumpet is a highly attractive tropical evergreen shrub to small tree. Throughout the season it produces pendulous, creamy orange, trumpet-shaped blooms that have wide open mouths that curve back. These are particularly fragrant, attract moths and contrast nicely with its large medium green leaves.

Heat and sun-loving, angel’s trumpet grows best in rich soil with good drainage and requires...

(Paraguay Jasmine, Yesterday Today and Tomorrow)

The charming flowers of this broadleaf evergreen shrub provide color and fragrance over a long season. Native to southern Brazil, northern Argentina, and Paraguay, it bears violet-blue, white-eyed blossoms in few-flowered clusters from early spring into fall. The sweetly scented blooms last several days, fading to lavender and white as they age. Spherical, brownish-green, berry-like fruits sometimes follow the flowers. The lush, dark green, oval leaves are normally evergreen but may drop after frost....

(Large-flowered Yesterday Today and Tomorrow)

With a grandiose winter floral display of purple, lavender and white, the large-flowered yesterday-today-and-tomorrow becomes a large shrub in the subtropical and tropical garden. A rounded but spreading-canopied evergreen, it is from the eastern slopes of the Andes Mountains from Colombia to Bolivia. The dark green leaves are quite long and oval and will turn yellow in very alkaline soils. In the cool season, clusters of impatiens-like blossom are revealed on the branch twigs, particularly fragrant...

(Raintree, Yesterday Today and Tomorrow)

This shrub is commonly called yesterday-today-and-tomorrow because its blooms open purple, fade to lavender and finally to white with all three colors occurring on the shrub. Its flat, pansy-like flowers are borne in clusters from spring into fall.

Though it tolerates full sun, this plant is native to the woodlands of Brazil and does best with dappled shade. Raintree needs moist, humusy soils that are slightly acidic. In neutral to alkaline soils or if planted near concrete, nutrient deficiencies...

(Dwarf Yesterday Today and Tomorrow, Raintree, Yesterday Today and Tomorrow)

This shrub is commonly called yesterday-today-and-tomorrow because its blooms open purple, fade to lavender and finally to white with all three colors occurring on the shrub. 'Floribunda Compacta' is a freely blooming smaller shrub. Its flat, pansy-like flowers are borne in clusters from spring into fall.

Though it tolerates full sun, this plant is native to the woodlands of Brazil and does best with dappled shade. Raintree needs moist, humusy soils that are slightly acidic. In neutral to alkaline...

(Raintree, Today and Tomorrow, Yesterday)

This shrub is commonly called yesterday-today-and-tomorrow because its blooms open purple, fade to lavender and finally to white with all three colors occurring on the shrub. 'Floribunda' is a very free-flowering selection with a open growth habit. Its flat, pansy-like flowers are borne in clusters from spring into fall.

Though it tolerates full sun, this plant is native to the woodlands of Brazil and does best with dappled shade. Raintree needs moist, humusy soils that are slightly acidic. In...

(Butterflybush, Lo & Behold Butterflybush)

Grown for its compact, non-invasive habit and elongated clusters of blue flowers, the dwarf moderately-vigorous hybrid butterflybush ‘Blue Chip’ A.K.A. Lo & Behold™ is a tough shrub that is a cross between Buddleja davidii, B. lindleyana and B. globosa. It was developed at the J. C. Raulston Arboretum at North Carolina State University.

This butterflybush has silvery gray-green leaves on low spreading multi-branched plants. Lo & Behold™ produces...

(Butterflybush, Lochinch Butterflybush)

Grown for its elongated clusters of violet-blue flowers, the tall vigorous hybrid butterflybush ‘Lochinch ’ is a tough shrub that is a cross between Buddleja fallowiana and B. davidii. It was discovered in Wigtownshire, Scotland in the garden of the Earl of Stair at Lochinch.

This butterflybush has silvery gray-green leaves and produces clusters of numerous tiny tubular violet-blue flowers with orange eyes. These are fragrant and appear at the ends of the branches. They...

(Butterflybush, Miss Ruby Butterflybush)

Miss Ruby butterflybush produces the richest and boldest pink-red flowers, perhaps best described as fuchsia-magenta. This cultivar was a hybrid developed by Dennis Werner of the J.C. Raulston Arboretum at North Carolina State University. Reaching head high with a compact but rounded habit, dozens of branches ending in panicles (flower spikes) float above gray-green foliage. Butterflies, bumblebees and honeybees gather on these blossoms that appear across summer and into autumn.

Although slow...

(Butterflybush, Queens Robe Butterflybush)

This butterflybush, 'Queen's Robe,' is a long-blooming shrub with gracefully arching branches and magenta to royal-purple flowers. Reaching head high, dozens of branches ending in panicles (flower spikes) float above gray-green foliage. Butterflies, bumblebees and honeybees gather on these blossoms that appear across summer and into autumn.

Although slow to break dormancy in late spring, 'Queen's Robe' is among the best of selections for a perennial or mixed border. Plant in full sun and in any...