(Desert Honeysuckle)

Certain to attract hummingbirds, desert honeysuckle explodes with orange-red colored blossoms from midsummer to fall. A deciduous shrub that attains an irregularly rounded shape with upright branches, it is native to the Edwards Plateau of Texas into northernmost Mexico.

The dull light to medium green leaves are small and lance-like, sometimes having a hint of white or silver on them. Beginning as early as midsummer, peaking in early autumn and waning until late autumn, the branch tips are lined...

(Flame Honeysuckle, Wright's Desert Honeysuckle)

Certain to attract hummingbirds, flame honeysuckle explodes with vibrant orange colored blossoms from midummer to fall. A deciduous shrub that attains an irregularly rounded shape with upright branches, it is native to the Edwards Plateau of Texas into northermost Mexico.

The dull light to medium green leaves are small and lance-like, sometimes having a hint of white or silver on them. Beginning as early as midsummer, peaking in early autumn and waning until late autumn, the branch tips are...

(Hybrid Cape Mallow, Slightly Strawberry™ Cape Mallow )

A hybrid developed as part of a breeding program in Cobbitty, New South Wales, Australia, in 2004, the Slightly Strawberry™ cape mallow freely produces bicolored lavender-pink and red blossoms. Its parentage stems from species native to South Africa. Cape mallow is an evergreen shrub or woody-stemmed perennial with an informal habit. It bears a profusion of pretty flowers from spring until frost or year round in warm climates. Deadheading isn't necessary and plants are drought-tolerant once established.

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(Hybrid Cape Mallow, Tara's Pink Hybrid Cape Mallow)

Overall, the hybrid Anisodontea ‘Tara’s Pink’ is larger and bushier than most, and its pink flowers are larger than those of the two most commonly cultivated species, Anisodontea capensis or Anisodontea x hypomadarum.

Cape mallow is an evergreen hybrid shrub with an informal habit. It bears a profusion of pretty flowers from spring until frost or all year round in warm climates.

Its stems are slender, upright, green or purple and covered with dense hairs. They...

(Cape African Queen, Cape Mallow)

Cape mallow is an evergreen hybrid shrub with an informal habit. It bears a profusion of small pretty flowers from spring until frost or all year round in warm climates.

Its stems are slender, upright, green or purple and covered with dense hairs. They support fuzzy leaves that are three-lobed, oblong and alternate on the stem. The flowers look a bit like Rose-of-Sharon blooms. They are five-petaled, funnel-shaped and medium to deep red with a dark eye and venation.

Plant Cape mallow in full...

(South African Mallow)

South African mallow is an evergreen hybrid shrub with an informal habit. It bears a profusion of pretty flowers from spring until frost or all year round in warm climates.

Its stems are slender, upright, green or purple and covered with dense hairs. They support fuzzy leaves that are three-lobed, oblong and alternate on the stem. The flowers look a bit like Rose-of-Sharon blooms. They are five-petaled, funnel-shaped and soft pink with purple veins.

Plant South African mallow in full sun...

(Sugar Apple)

This is a small, tropical semi-deciduous tree, named and grown for its unusual, delicious fruits called sugar apples, sweetsops or custard apples. They have a thick rind divided into knobby segments that separate when the fruit ripens to reveal conical, creamy-white segments of sweet, fragrant flesh, some containing a single seed. The flowers are fragrant and bloom on the branch tips singly or in clusters of two to four. Never fully open, they are yellow-green on the outside and pale yellow on the...

(Pink Pussytoes)

A mat-forming, semi-evergreen perennial from mountains and dry plains of western and northern North America, rosy pussytoes is grown for its fuzzy pink flowers and its downy gray foliage.

This hardy perennial spreads via underground rhizomes to form low carpets of small spoon-shaped leaves with silvery felt-like surfaces. Small disc-shaped heads of pink to white flowers appear atop short leafy stems in spring or early summer. Flowerheads of female plants have numerous soft bristles, giving...

(Corn Chamomile, Field Chamomile)

The beautifully feathery field chamomile is a Eurasian field weed that has invaded much of North America. From early to late summer, depending on the geographic location of the plant, pretty white daisies are produced. This sun lover is most commonly found in old-fields, disturbed lands and along roadsides.

Seedlings germinate in winter or early spring and ferny green to gray-green leaves cover the upright stems of growing plants. By summer loads of pretty white daisies with yellow centers...

(Alpine Marguerite, Marschall's Chamomile)

Bearing long-lasting, daisy-like flowers in summer, alpine marguerite is also notable for its aromatic gray leaves. Native to the Caucasus region and northern Turkey, it is a low, mounding plant with fernlike, deeply lobed, silvery to gray-green leaves. In late spring or early summer, small daisies, with yellow petals and a yellow central disc, are held above the foliage. Bees and butterflies visit the blooms.

Alpine marguerite must grow in soils with good drainage and full sun to partial shade....