(Ageratum, Blue Mink, Cloud Nine™ Ageratum, Flossflower)

Fluffy, cool lavender to violet-blue or white flowers bedeck the plants in the Cloud Nine™ Series of flossflower when temperatures are not hot and growing conditions favorable. Though technically a tender perennial, flossflower is widely grown as an annual bedding plant. It is native to Mexico and Central America where it grows as an evergreen subshrub with a dense, bushy habit, but it has also become naturalized in tropical and subtropical countries across the globe. The Cloud Nine Series was developed...

(Willow Myrtle)

Beautiful and drought resistant, this small to medium-sized, semi-weeping evergreen tree from western Australia makes an excellent plant for gardens where winters and summers are mild. The long, lance shaped, bright green leaves dangle from weeping branchlets, giving the tree a willowy appearance. The leaves smell of peppermint. Masses of small white flowers crowd the branches in late spring and early summer. Plants eventually form a dense wide-spreading canopy and root system, making them unsuitable...

(Jervis Bay Afterdark Willow Myrtle, Willow Myrtle)

Beautiful and drought resistant, this small to medium-sized, semi-weeping evergreen tree from western Australia makes an excellent plant for gardens where winters and summers are mild. The long, lance shaped, bright green leaves dangle from weeping branchlets, giving the tree a willowy appearance. The leaves smell of peppermint. Masses of small white flowers crowd the branches in late spring and early summer. Plants eventually form a dense wide-spreading canopy and root system, making them unsuitable...

(Agrimony)

(Common Agrimony)

(Corn Cockle)

The delicate scalloped pink flowers of common corn cockle bloom bloom from early to late summer above slender stems lined with fine, pale green leaves. This southeastern European native self-sows prodigiously and has become naturalized across most of North America in all but a few western states and provinces. Here it is most commonly found growing on roadsides, cultivated fields and other disturbed sites.

The fuzzy stems of this summer annual are lined with slender, opposite leaves with bulbous...

(Coyore, Macaw Palm)

This small, graceful, but heavily armed palm tree is found in rain forests and seasonally dry woodlands of Puerto Rico, Hispaniola, and the Lesser Antilles.

Borne atop a single, slender, gray to tan trunk that brandishes numerous long black spines, the enormous, arching, ferny leaves have numerous narrowly lance-shaped leaflets. The leaflets arise from a long central axis known as a rachis. The rachis and the undersides of the leaves are also heavily armed, as is the long leaf stem ("petiole")....

(Creeping Pacific Chrysanthemum, Pacific Chrysanthemum)

Pacific chrysanthemum is a low spreading perennial with attractive deep green silver-edged foliage. It is native to Japan where it exists along the Honshu Island coastline and slopes. It spreads via rhizomes and can become quite aggressive if grown in good soil and provided regular water.

In the late fall Pacific chrysanthemum becomes covered with attractive clusters of bright yellow button-like flowers. Once spent, these can be cut back to make best of the pretty evergreen to semi-evergreen...

(Creeping Pacific Chrysanthemum, Pacific Chrysanthemum)

The pretty gold flowers of ‘Mimosa Gold’ Pacific chrysanthemum light up the late season garden. This compact cultivar has a uniform habit and is very easy to grow.

Pacific chrysanthemum is a spreading perennial with attractive deep green silver-edged foliage. It originates from Japan where it exists along exposed coastline and slopes. It spreads via rhizomes and can become quite aggressive if grown in good soil and provided regular water, though cultivars in the Mimosa Series spread more slowly....

(Creeping Pacific Chrysanthemum, Pacific Chrysanthemum)

The pretty pink flowers of ‘Mimosa Pink’ Pacific chrysanthemum are a welcome change from the standard yellow-flowered form. This compact cultivar has a uniform habit and is very easy to grow.

Pacific chrysanthemum is a spreading perennial with attractive deep green silver-edged foliage. It originates from Japan where it exists along exposed coastline and slopes. It spreads via rhizomes and can become quite aggressive if grown in good soil and provided regular water, though cultivars in the Mimosa...