(Compact Japanese Knotweed)

This relatively low-growing but vigorously spreading variety of Japanese knotweed bears showy clusters of pink flowers in late summer.

Native to East Asia and naturalized worldwide, Japanese knotweed is a rampant herbaceous perennial that is considered a noxious weed in many regions including the eastern United States. It is known by several other botanical names including Reynoutria japonica, Polygonum cuspidatum, and Polygonum japonicum.

The stout, red- or purple-tinged...

(Compact Japanese Knotweed, Variegated Japanese Knotweed)

Variegated Japanese knotweed ('Milk Boy' or 'Variegata') bears showy white-splashed foliage on tall, relatively slow-spreading plants.

Native to East Asia and naturalized worldwide, Japanese knotweed is a rampant herbaceous perennial that is considered a noxious weed in many regions including the eastern United States. It is known by several other botanical names including Reynoutria japonica, Polygonum cuspidatum, and Polygonum japonicum.

The stout, red- or purple-tinged...

(Fallugia)

(Apache Plume)

The rose-like blooms and ornamental seed heads make this one of the most interesting shrubs of the Southwest United States. Its twiggy, pale-barked stems and downy white branchlets form an upright to spreading shrub that retains a relatively low profile (head-high or less). Small lacy dark green leaves are rather widely spaced on the branches, giving the plant a somewhat scruffy look when it is not in flower or fruit. The leaves are deciduous in areas where cold or drought persist.

Small white...

(Leopard Plant, Ligularia)

The leopard plant is the royalty of the shade garden. It arguably has more magnificent foliage than any hosta or woodland wildflower, and also manages to produce a tall flower stalk that surprises you as being a member of the daisy family. This perennial is native to the forests and moist slopes across Japan and southern China. It develops rhizome roots and its foliage remains evergreen as long as winter temperatures do not drop below 20 F (-6 C). Leopard plant becomes a loosely clumping, mounded...

(Gold Spotted Japanese Farfugium)

The gold spotted leopard plant is among the prized shade garden foliage plants. It arguably has more magnificent foliage than any hosta or woodland wildflower, and also manages to produce a tall flower stalk that surprises you as being a member of the daisy family. This perennial is native to the forests and moist slopes across Japan and southern China. It develops rhizome roots and its foliage remains evergreen as long as winter temperatures do not drop below 20 F (-6 C). Gold spotted leopard plant...

(Parsley Leaf Ligularia, Pie Crust Leopard Plant, Wavy-leaved Japanese Farfugium)

Interesting common names such as pie crust ligularia or parsley farfugium reveal the ornate foliage of 'Crispatum'. It is among the prized shade garden foliage plants, with more magnificent foliage than any hosta or woodland wildflower. The Japanese farfugium manages to produce a tall flower stalk that surprises you as being a member of the daisy family. This perennial is native to the forests and moist slopes across Japan and southern China. It develops rhizome roots and its foliage remains evergreen...

(Giant Japanese Farfugium)

Huge, shiny green leaves the size of dinner plates occur on the giant Japanese farfugium, also called the giant leopard plant. It is among the prized shade garden foliage plants, with more resplendent foliage than any hosta or woodland wildflower. It manages to produce a tall flower stalk that surprises you as being a member of the daisy family. This perennial is native to the forests and moist slopes across Japan and southern China. It develops rhizome roots and its foliage remains evergreen as...

(Tall Fescue)

Fescue ‘Southern Gold’ is a tall fescue turfgrass seed blend developed with varieties to impart heat, drought, insect and brown patch disease resistance for the warmer areas of the transition zone. The tall fescue species are native to Europe. Tall fescue is very popular turf due to good color in the spring and fall and easy of establishment from seed. Though it is a cool-season turf, it is best used in the warmer areas of transition zones and is commonly used to over-seed warm season grasses in...

(Amethystina Fescue)

Tufted fescue is a perennial, ornamental grass with intense blue-green color. It is short, clumping and native to central and eastern Europe including the Alps. Leaves are very fine in texture, linear to thread shaped and furrowed at the base. The flowers are produced on flexible, zigzag branched spikelets and are purplish in color. The flower spikes are held well above the foliage and produced in summer.

Tufted fescue is a cool-season grass and can be short-lived. It prefers full sun to part sun...