(Dahlia, Pinnate Dahlia)

Pinnate dahlia's simple green leaves on tall herbaceous stems are accented by beautiful, circular and daisy-like flowers in summer and fall. From the mild mountainous regions of Mexico southward to Colombia, it is a tender perennial with bulbous underground tubers. The nearly evergreen foliage is described as single, oval and pointed green leaves. When the weather is warm it will produce rounded, daisy-like flowers that are red, orange, yellow or white in color. It is advantageous to remove the old...

(Dahlia, Dwarf Dahlia, Dwarf Pinnate Dahlia)

The cultivars in the Delicious Series are well-branching, upright to mounding, heavy-flowering types and come in an array of colors, and have names referring to sweet condiments. Their flowers are double to semi-double in form.

Pinnate dahlia's simple green leaves on tall herbaceous stems are accented by beautiful, circular and daisy-like flowers in summer and fall. Originally from the mild mountainous regions of Mexico southward to Colombia, it is a tender perennial with bulbous underground...

(Indian Rosewood, Sissoo)

Tall, stately and graceful, Indian rosewood is fast-growing and commercially useful. This deciduous tree is native to India, Pakistan and Nepal where it is widely planted for timber. It is also valuable as an ornamental due to its vase-shaped habit and drooping branches.

The leaves are arranged like a feather. Each leaftlet is round to oval-shaped with a pointed tip. Its spring flowers are fragrant and sweet pea-like flowers and come in shades of pale yellow, white or pink. The fruit is a light...

(Fragrant Daphne, Winter Daphne)

Winter daphne is an intensely perfumed plant that comes from China and Japan. Blooming in the winter with clusters of deep rose-pink flowers makes this plant a prize for the warm temperate garden. Flowers are followed by pretty red fruits that contrast against the glossed leathery dark green leaves.

Unfortunately, this shrub is short-lived and demanding in its culture. Winter daphne requires extremely well-drained but moist neutral soils, so careful watering and mulching is important. It also...

(Fragrant Daphne, White Fragrant Daphne)

Winter daphne is an intensely perfumed plant that comes from China and Japan. Blooming in the winter with clusters of deep rose-pink flowers makes this plant a prize for the warm temperate garden. Flowers are followed by pretty red fruits that contrast against the glossed leathery dark green leaves.

Unfortunately, this shrub is short-lived and demanding in its culture. Winter daphne requires extremely well-drained but moist neutral soils, so careful watering and mulching is important. It also...

(Fragrant Daphne, Variegated Winter Daphne, Winter Daphne)

Variegated winter daphne is an intensely perfumed plant that comes from China and Japan. 'Aureomarginata' ('Marginata') displays attractive glossy, leathery leaves with a variable-width edge of yellow. Blooming in the winter with clusters of red-purple flowers, they are followed by pretty red fruits.

Unfortunately, this shrub is short-lived and demanding in its culture. Winter daphne requires extremely well-drained but moist neutral soils, so careful watering and mulching is important. 'Aureomarginata'...

(Fragrant Daphne, Rebecca Daphne)

Winter daphne is an intensely perfumed plant that comes from China and Japan. Blooming in the winter with clusters of deep rose-pink flowers makes this plant a prize for the warm temperate garden. Flowers are followed by pretty red fruits that contrast against the glossed leathery dark green leaves.

Unfortunately, this shrub is short-lived and demanding in its culture. Winter daphne requires extremely well-drained but moist neutral soils, so careful watering and mulching is important. It also...

(Fragrant Daphne, Winter Daphne)

'Leucanthe' is a pleasant selection of winter daphne is an intensely perfumed shrub that comes from China and Japan. Blooming in the winter with clusters of creamy white flowers makes this plant a prize for the warm temperate garden. Flowers are followed by pretty red fruits that contrast against the glossed leathery dark green leaves.

Unfortunately, this shrub is short-lived and demanding in its culture. Winter daphne requires extremely well-drained but moist neutral soils, so careful watering...

(Desert Spoon)

This genus of 18 semi-succulent species is little known outside the desert Southwest. These truly striking plants are native to the southern United States and Mexico, closely resembling both yuccas and agaves. They are found in very arid lands, along dry washes and on rocky hillsides where soils are porous and extremely well drained. In their region of origin no rain may fall for ten months or more, and these plants have adapted to surviving such extended drought.

The plants of Dasylirion...

(Green Desert Spoon, Green Sotol)

This bold finely textured yucca-like plant is ideal for large, open gardens where it can achieve its full magnificent stature. Green sotal is native to arid central Mexico. It forms a large, rounded, dense rosette of pointy, narrow pale yellow-green leaves edged with small curved teeth. They are painful to the touch and effectively deter browsing wildlife. As it matures, the rosette develops a dense trunk-like base.

This is an annual bloomer that sends up a very tall spike of flowers from its...