(Large-flowered Calamint, Variegated Calamint)

Packing a punch in foliage aroma and floral display, large-flowered calamint is a spectacular perennial. Native to southern Europe eastward into the Crimea, Turkey and Iran, it is a bushy, rounded or mounded plant. Its leaves are medium-green above, gray-green below, and bear tiny hairs. The scent released from the leaves is a delicious blend of sweet fruit with lemon and mint. In midsummer this perennial displays hundreds of bright pink (with lavender hints), tubular flowers at the tops of the many...

(Calamint, Lesser Calamint)

Lesser calamint is an aromatic perennial native to northern temperate regions, primarily southern and central Europe, northwest Africa and the Crimea. It is slow growing with an upright habit and shallow-toothed, hairy green leaves. The flowers are light-mauve to almost white held in open sprays and are attractive to bees.

Lesser calamint prefers moist to dry, well-drained soil conditions. Full sun to partial shade is acceptable. It would be a nice perennial addition to a mixed border, rockery...

(Calamint)

Lesser calamint is an aromatic perennial native to northern temperate regions, primarily southern and central Europe, northwest Africa and the Crimea. It is slow growing with an upright habit and shallow-toothed, hairy green leaves. The flowers are light-mauve to almost white held in open sprays and are attractive to bees.

Lesser calamint prefers moist to dry, well-drained soil conditions. Full sun to partial shade is acceptable. It would be a nice perennial addition to a mixed border, rockery...

(Calamint, White-flowered Calamint)

A selection of lesser Calamint, ‘White Cloud,’ blooms with flowers that are closer to white than those of the parent species, an aromatic perennial native to northern temperate regions, primarily southern and central Europe, northwest Africa and the Crimea. It is slow growing with upright, closely-spaced, leafy stems that bear shallow-toothed, hairy, aromatic, green leaves. The flowers are trumpet-shaped, light-mauve to almost white, and held on tall, slender stems in open, branched sprays. They...

(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...

(Bolivian Inchplant, Creeping Inchplant, Turtle Vine)

Creeping inchplant is an evergreen perennial that grows in spreading mats. This native of Latin America, from southern Texas to Argentina, bears white flowers in fall.

Grow creeping inchplant primarily for its attractive, succulent bright green to gray green foliage. It does well in moist, well-drained soils in partial shade. Also a nice specimen for houseplant culture.

(Cushion Bush, Silver Sand Cushion Bush)

This is a selection, prized for its leaf colors, of a mounding, dry-climate perennial native to coastal bluffs of south and western Australia as well as Tasmania. There it encounters persistent winds and salt spray, a regimen that has made it a near perfect coastal plant for water conservation. The foliage of ‘Silver Sand’ is composed of scale-like leaves on finely divided branchlets. The leaves are a a more intense silvery hue than the parent species and the plant’s habit is a dense mound, hence...

(Cowslip, Golden Marsh Marigold, Kingcup)

Brightening the streambanks or bogs in midspring with showy yellow buttercup flowers, marsh marigold is a lovely woodland wildflower. A deciduous, mounding aquatic perennial, it is native to the northern half of North America from Alaska to Newfoundland south to Iowa and North Carolina.

The thick, spreading, hollow stems carry lush green heart-shaped leaves with dull jagged teeth. In mid- to late spring, the branching stems bear small loose clusters of bright yellow flowers that are waxy. Shaped...

(Berlandier's Sundrops)

Berlandier's sundrops is notable for its narrow, linear leaves with sparse, fine teeth on their edges, and months of evening primrose flowers. Normally an evergreen perennial that grows from woody stems near the ground, it is native to the south central and southwestern United States and northern Mexico in grasslands.

The wiry, thick stems of this perennial are orange-tan and lightly lined with long, linear leaves of a light to medium-green. The leaves form a whorled head at the stem tips, from...