(Asian White Birch)

Manchurian white birch is a medium-sized, conical, deciduous tree native to northeast Asia. In addition to its creamy-white bark, which provides year-round display, it features pale green leaves from late spring through summer, golden fall color, and tan catkins in early spring. Several cultivars of Manchurian birch are available. All favor full sun or light shade and reasonably fertile, well-drained soil. It works well as a specimen plant or in small groupings. It is resistant to the birch...

(Himalayan Birch)

Himalayan birch is a pyramidal, deciduous tree native from the Himalayas into southern China. A variable plant in height, habit, and bark color, it is best known for its variable white-barked selections, which provide year-round interest with their attractive, chalk-white bark. Throughout summer it has crisp, dark green leaves that turn yellow in fall. Himalayan birch prefers full sun or light shade and reasonably fertile, well-drained soil. In the landscape, it is best enjoyed as a specimen tree....

(Whitebarked Himalayan Birch)

White-barked Himalayan birch is a pyramidal, deciduous tree native from the Himalayas into southern China. Best known for its striking chalk-white bark, which provides year-round interest, it also features dark green leaves which turn yellow in fall. Several cultivars are available to include 'Grayswood Ghost', which has superior clean white bark and yellow fall color. Himalayan birch prefers full sun or light shade and reasonably fertile, well-drained soil. It works well as a specimen plant or in...

(Beggarticks, Bidens, Marietta Gold Spark)

This bidens, ‘Sundens,’ is a compact, long-blooming selection of Bidens ferulifolia, native to the southwestern U.S and contiguous regions of Mexico. Bred in Japan, 'Sundens' is a compact, upright, branching, short-lived perennial that covers itself with yellow daisy-like flowers from late spring through autumn until frost. It tolerates heat and has little appeal for deer and rabbits. In warm climates it is a perennial. In cold climates it is grown as an annual.

Plant ‘Sundens’ in full...

(Apache Beggarticks)

A short-lived, spreading perennial, often grown as an annual, Apache beggarsticks has a low, spreading habit and airy, rich green foliage. This native of the southern United States and Mexico is heat-loving and showy in bloom, when it produce many open, broad petaled golden yellow flowers at the ends of slender stems from summer to fall. The flowers are attractive to bees and butterflies and require little deadheading.

A plant for sunny sites, Apache beggarsticks grows best in rich to average...

(Apache Beggarticks, Solaire® Yellow Beggarticks)

The perfect-size plant for small patio containers or the front of the flower bed, Solaire® Yellow beggarticks produces bright yellow, five-petaled flowers. While this species is usually a short-lived, spreading perennial, often grown as an annual, Solaire® Yellow always tends to die-out after about a year even if ideal growing conditions prevail. Each plants is a mound of fine-textured, deep green leaves. From early summer to fall's first frost, yellow flowers (perhaps with a deeper hint of gold)...

(Apache Beggarticks, Mexican Gold™ Apache Beggarticks)

A short-lived perennial, often grown as an annual, Mexican Gold™ Apache beggarticks is a upright-growing variety that has a more spreading to semi-trailing habit. It is early flowering and holds the flower clusters on fairly sturdy stems above the foliage. This plant species originates from the southern United States and Mexico, but 'Fisbimex' was selected as a result of a controlled breeding program in Germany in 2004. Apache beggarticks is heat-loving and has fern-like, rich green foliage. From...

(Apache Beggarticks, Bidens, Gold Marie Bidens)

A short-lived perennial, often grown as an annual, ‘Gold Marie’ beggarsticks is a vigorous selection with a bushy, spreading habit and fine, rich green foliage. This native of the southern United States and Mexico is heat-loving and becomes adorned with a showy display of many clear golden yellow daisies from summer to fall. These are attractive to bees and butterflies and require little deadheading.

A tough plant for sunny sites, Apache beggarsticks grows best in rich to average soil with good...

(Apache Beggarticks, Bidens, Golden Star Bidens)

A short-lived perennial, often grown as an annual, ‘Golden Star’ beggarsticks is a vigorous selection distinguished by its compact, yet upright and bushy habit and early bloom time. It originates from the southern United States and Mexico, is heat-loving and has ferny, rich green foliage. From early summer to fall it becomes adorned with a showy display of many bright yellow daisies. These are attractive to bees and butterflies and require little deadheading.

A tough plant for sunny sites, Apache...

(Apache Beggarticks)

Here's an exceptionally low-spreading or cascading Apache beggarticks cultivar that's perfect for hanging baskets, groundcover or to spill over the edge of a large patio container. A short-lived perennial, often grown as an annual, 'Peters Goldteppich' was discovered growing in Peter Wicki-Freidl's Swiss garden in 1996. The plant species is from the southwestern United States and Mexico but prized as an ornamental in gardens worldwide. Peter's Gold Carpet (the literal translation of the cultivar...