(Great Masterwort, Primadonna Masterwort)

Masterwort is a clump-forming perennial with palmately lobed lower leaves and simple leaves on the stem. Native to Central and Eastern Europe, it blooms in late spring and throughout mid-summer. The floral umbel consists of a creamy-white, pink, green, or occasionally deep purple-red center surrounded by petal-like pinkish or greenish bracts.

Masterwort requires well-drained, consistently moist soil. This species and its cultivars will tolerate drier conditions and are most often used as...

(Great Masterwort)

Masterwort is a clump-forming perennial with palmately lobed lower leaves and simple leaves on the stem. Native to Central and Eastern Europe, it blooms in late spring and throughout mid-summer. The floral umbel consists of a creamy-white, pink, green, or occasionally deep purple-red center surrounded by petal-like pinkish or greenish bracts.

Masterwort requires well-drained, consistently moist soil. This species and its cultivars will tolerate drier conditions and are most often used as...

(Great Masterwort, Venice Masterwort)

Masterwort is a clump-forming perennial with palmately lobed lower leaves and simple leaves on the stem. Native to Central and Eastern Europe, it blooms in late spring and throughout mid-summer. The floral umbel consists of a creamy-white, pink, green, or occasionally deep purple-red center surrounded by petal-like pinkish or greenish bracts.

Masterwort requires well-drained, consistently moist soil. This species and its cultivars will tolerate drier conditions and are most often used as...

(Sand Dollar Cactus, Sea Urchin Cactus, Star Cactus, Star Peyote)

These tiny round hemispheres make exceptional windowsill cactus due to their unique markings and spinelessness. The species is native to thorn shrub vegetation of southern Texas and northern Mexico. It is often found in the filtered shade beneath shrubs, which act as nurse plants for protection from the brutally hot sun. This proves a tolerance for indoor conditions. Sadly, unscrupulous collectors have gathered so many old wild specimens that it is now listed as endangered in the U.S. Endangered...

(Bishop's Cap, Star Cactus)

Bishop’s cap is an ideal windowsill cactus because it is thankfully spineless or nearly so. This tiny, rock hard gem of a plant does not demand high intensity light and will thrive in any south facing exposure as a house plant. It is native to the Chihuahuan Desert of central Mexico, but has been in cultivation so long there are numerous horticultural varieties. What makes it so unique is that each plant is a perfect five pointed star divided into as many identical segments. Bishop’s cap protects...

(Monk's Hood, Star Cactus)

Monk’s hood is a beautiful windowsill cactus with unique coloring and strong geometric form. This cactus does not demand high intensity light and will thrive in any south facing exposure as a house plant. It is native to the deserts of central Mexico in gravelly dry washes or nooks and crannies in cliff faces. Each plant is technically a stem divided into an average of 8 segments that may twist somewhat as plants age. Widely spaced tubercles line the segment ridges, each one producing several short,...

(Ganges Primrose)

Successful in many warm soils, the spreading foliage of Ganges primrose is a lovely backdrop for the white or yellow blossoms that flush purple with maturity. An exact nativity is uncertain, but believed to hail from eastern Africa, and India eastward into Malaysia. This is a tender perennial or subshrub that sprawls out and is reminiscent of a large petunia plant. It is usually regarded as a pretty weed in the tropics (in lawns), often invasive along the beaches.

The medium green leaves are...

(Branford Beauty Ladyfern)

Beautiful and lacy best describes the light gray-green foliage with silvery hues on the Branford Beauty ladyfern. A hybrid of Japanese painted fern and ladyfern, it was developed in Branford, Connecticut by Nick Nicou.

The pointed, triangular fronds have a reddish stem and is ornately lined with small, feathery leaflets (pinnae). Each pinna is light green but heavily masked in gray and silver tones, or green with noticeable flecks of gray-silver. It becomes a clumping plant, with the fronds held...

(Ghost Ladyfern, Ladyfern)

Ghost ladyfern is a hybrid cross between the Japanese painted fern and American ladyfern. It forms upright to arching clumps of broad silvery-gray to frosted apple-green fronds with dark purple midribs. This vigorous, deciduous fern grows a little taller than both its parents.

Overall, it prefers partial to full shade, but a little sun will bring out its silver color. Like most ferns, it thrives in fertile, evenly moist soil but can tolerate moderately dry soil once established. Plant in woodland...

(Ladyfern)

Ladyfern is a deciduous, terrestrial fern occurring throughout temperate regions of the Northern Hemisphere. Vigorous, elegant and easy to grow, it was a great favorite in gardens of the Victorian era. Its tall, light green, upright to arching fronds are lined with narrow, pointed, finely divided leaflets which have a soft, airy appearance. The stems are typically green, but are sometimes tinted with red-brown. Numerous cultivars of this highly variable fern have been developed, including those...