(Autumn Purple® Ash, White Ash)

This beautiful ash is a seedless cultivar that produces beautiful purple-red fall color. The classic North American shade tree, white ash, is a large beautiful tree with a broad canopy, upright sturdy trunk and pretty foliage. It is hard-wooded but fast growing species that exists in hilly forests from Texas to the farthest northeastern reaches of Canada. It is valuable for lumber which is used to make furniture, baseball bats and flooring.

This upright tree develops an evenly-branched oval...

(White Ash)

White ash selection ‘Rosehill' has wide-angle branching, broadly oval crown and fine foliage that becomes multi-colored in autumn. This was a chance seedling first labelled as outstanding by E. Asjes, Jr., of Rosehill Gardens, Kansas City, Missouri in the mid-1960s. It is highly regarded for its tolerance to alkaline soils.

The classic North American shade tree, white ash, is a large beautiful tree with a broad oval canopy, straight sturdy trunk and pretty foliage. It is a hard-wooded but fast...

(White Ash)

White ash selection ‘Rosehill' has wide-angle branching, broadly oval crown and fine foliage that becomes multi-colored in autumn. This seedless selection was developed and introduced by American Garden Cole of Circleville, Ohio in the early 1980s.

The classic North American shade tree, white ash, is a large beautiful tree with a broad oval canopy, straight sturdy trunk and pretty foliage. It is a hard-wooded but fast growing species that naturally exists in hilly forests from Texas to the...

(California Ash, Foothill Ash, Two-petaled Ash)

Steadfast through the long western dry season, foothill ash is distributed from the Oregon border to Mexico where it’s most commonly found along the foothills of the Sierra Nevadas and coastal ranges. It is a deciduous shrub or small, multi-trunked tree that loses its leaves in summer when the heat and drought are most intense. Its bark is gray-brown and develops scaly fissures; young stems are four-sided and become rounded as they age.

New foliage emerges with the onset of rain in early winter....

(Arizona Ash, Velvet Ash)

Steadfast and reliable in extreme heat, the Arizona ash is a tall, deciduous shade tree that has a pyramidal shape when young and develops a spreading, rounded canopy when mature. Native to the southwestern United States and northern Mexico, it naturally inhabits stream sides or low pockets in canyons.

The compound leaves emerge light green and velvety and turn leathery and gray-green as they age. They have three to five leaflets with fuzzy gray-green undersides. In fall the foliage turns shades...

(Fan-Tex Arizona Ash, Velvet Ash)

This seedless Arizona ash was selected by Selected by Eddie Fanick of San Antonio, Texas and was first made available in 1962. It is valued for its attractive glossy foliage, rapid growth rate and uniformly symmetrical crown.

Steadfast and reliable in extreme heat, the Arizona ash is a tall, deciduous shade tree that has a pyramidal shape when young and develops a spreading, rounded canopy when mature. Native to the southwestern United States and northern Mexico, it naturally inhabits stream...

(Modesto Arizona Ash, Velvet Ash)

This old cultivar was developed at Stribling's Nursery in Merced, California, and was first made available in 1948. It is valued for its attractive glossy foliage, rapid growth rate and broad spreading crown. It is a male clone, so it is not fruit producing.

Steadfast and reliable in extreme heat, the Arizona ash is a tall, deciduous shade tree that has a pyramidal shape when young and develops a spreading, rounded canopy when mature. Native to the southwestern United States and northern Mexico,...

(California Flannelbush)

Golden yellow flowers and felted evergreen leaves make this California native shrub a winner for water-conservation landscapes. Fast-growing and resilient in arid landscapes, it naturally grows in desert scrub, chaparral and open pine forests. Mature plants develop an irregular, open crown and short trunk.

The thick, lobed leaves of flannelbush are rich green to gray-green and fully evergreen. When growing conditions are wetter the leaves grow larger, while arid conditions cause smaller foliage....

(Bijou Blanketflower, Blanketflower)

The carefree perennial blanketflower ‘Bijou’ is grown for its orange-red and yellow daisies that bloom all season. Its vibrant flowers first appear from compact clumps of gray-green, hairy, lance-shaped leaves in the late spring. Blooms draw butterflies in droves and will continue to appear into the fall if plants are regularly deadheaded.

Though blanketflowers tolerate average dry soil, they thrive in fertile soil with good drainage and even moisture. They also love the heat, so plant them in...

(Blanketflower, Dakota Reveille Blanketflower)

Grown for their spring-to-fall succession of large bright daisy-like blooms, blanket flowers are clump-forming, rangy, herbaceous perennials. The cultivar 'Dakota Reveille' bears "daisies" whose rays are double rather than single-petalled, giving a pompon effect. The yellow, burgundy-throated, trumpet-shaped rays are lime-green with red tips before opening. The solitary "daisies" perch on compact burgundy stems above hairy ovate grayish-green leaves.

Grow blanketflower in well-drained average...