(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, 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, Bidens, Smiley Bidens)

Apache beggarstick is a floriferous evergreen tender perennial with a short, spreading habit. It is native from Arizona to Guatemala and adapted to hot, arid climates.

The cultivar ‘Smiley’ bears clear golden yellow daisy-like flowers in great profusion from midsummer to early fall. These contrast nicely with its ferny rich green leaves.

Beggarsticks require full sun and average soil with perfect drainage. Once established, plants are surprisingly heat and drought tolerant. The flowers of...

(Apache Beggarticks, Bidens, Marietta™ Gold Spark Bidens)

By far one of the finest Bidens on the market for blooming performance and form, Marietta Gold Spark has a highly compact habit and flowers heavily and continuously all season. This cultivar originates from the southern United States and Mexico, is heat-loving and has dense, ferny, rich green foliage. From early summer to fall it becomes adorned with a colorful display of many golden yellow daisies. These are attractive to bees and butterflies and require little deadheading.

A tough plant for...

(Apache Beggarticks, Yellow Charm Apache Beggarticks)

A short-lived perennial, often grown as an annual, Yellow Charm Apache beggarticks is a mound-forming selection with eight-petaled flowers. The daisy-like flowers occur from early summer to mid- or late fall, showing off their yellow petals that blush deeper gold around the central disc. This plant species originates from the southern United States and Mexico. It is heat-loving and has fern-like, rich green foliage. The blossoms are attractive to bees and butterflies and require little deadheading....

(Beggarticks)

Almost every child, puppy and kitten has carried and dispersed the seeds of Bidens. Variously known as beggarsticks, sticktights, Spanish needles and bur marigolds these annoying seeds are the product of sweet, daisy-like flowers.

There are about 200 species of herbs, shrubs or vines which make up the genus Bidens. They are annuals or perennials and can be found growing throughout much of the world, most often in subtropical, tropical, and temperate North America and South...

(Golden Eye Beggarticks)

A large, shrubby perennial with ferny leaves along wiry stems and yellow daisy-like broad-petaled flowers in profusion in fall. It is native from Mexico to South America and close kin to coreopsis and cosmos. Beggar’s tick is a short, spreading tender evergreen that is native from Arizona to Guatemala. The leaves are narrow, ferny or fennel-like. The flowers appear on long, nodding, wiry stems, which makes bidens a good plant to be used as an annual in a hanging basket or a container. It will...

(Deer Fern)

Growing in clumping tufts of glossy green fronds, deer fern is short in stature but spreads vigorously with its hairy, dark, fleshy roots. This is an evergreen perennial fern, native to western North America, northern and eastern Asia and Europe.

The fronds emerge from the plant center as a reddish-brown stem that unrolls as the leaves appear. Each frond is long and narrow due to relatively short leaflets. Since ferns do not flower but reproduce by spores, the undersides of the fronds will become...

(Hardy Urn Orchid)

Hardy urn orchid is a terrestrial (ground dwelling) orchid native to China, Japan and Taiwan. It is grown for its lush foliage and petite, cattleya-like blooms. This orchid grows from short tuberous rhizomes (rooting, underground, lateral, swollen stems). A few upright, lance-shaped, dark to medium green leaves that are deeply pleated grow directly from the rhizomes forming clumps. Beautiful flowers appear on leafless stalks held above the foliage, opening from the bottom upward. Each typical orchid...