(Bush Dawn Kangaroo Paws, Kangaroo Paws)

The Bush Dawn kangaroo paw is a long-blooming hybrid perennial with eye-catching flowers for warm climates or containers. From late-spring into fall, even year-round in favorable conditions, it blooms on upright, fuzzy stems above its base of evergreen strap-like leaves. Appearing in fan-like clusters, the flowers are slightly curved tubes colored yellow

Descended from parents native to extreme southwestern Western Australia, 'Bush Dawn' should be planted in a moist but well-drained soil that...

(Bush Pearl Kangaroo Paws, Kangaroo Paws)

The Bush Pearl kangaroo paw is a long-blooming hybrid perennial with eye-catching flowers for warm climates or containers. From late-spring into fall, even year-round in favorable conditions, it blooms on upright, fuzzy stems above its base of evergreen strap-like leaves. Appearing in fan-like clusters, the flowers are slightly curved tubes colored a sweet pink with occasional highlights of a deeper violet-pink.

Descended from parents native to extreme southwestern Western Australia, 'Bush Pearl'...

(Kangaroo Paws)

The hybrid perennials in the Bush Series are profusely flowering evergreens from Australian parents, Anigozanthos humilis and A. flavidus. In late spring and summer, tall, stems, branched near the top, arise with curiously interesting flowers. Tube-shaped and slghtly fuzzy, their colors range across the warm hues. Flowering can continue from spring into fall, or year round in ideal conditions.

Kangaroo paws should be planted in a moist but well-drained soil that is kept drier...

(Mangles' Kangaroo Paw, Red and Green Kangaroo Paw)

This dainty strap-leaf perennial from the Australian bush offers a truly exotic flower for small gardens. The red and green kangaroo paw is the floral emblem of Western Australia where it grows on the floor of eucalyptus forests. Demanding extremely well-drained, moist sandy soils, it may be grown at slightly elevated locations with heavier soils. Do not group it with desert plants as it cannot withstand extreme low desert heat.

The long, grayish green, iris-like leaves produce clumps that...

(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...

(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...

(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....