(Baby's Breath)

Baby’s breath is the traditional florist’s favorite filler flower. Members of the Festival series have a pleasing compact, erect form and vigorous growth. These herbaceous perennial plants bear tall, airy panicles covered with hundreds of tiny double white flowers, often blushed with pink. Flowers appear from late spring to late summer, When in bloom the effect is cloud-like. Off-season plants maintain an inconspicuous existence as a dense rosette of lance-shaped, blue-green basal foliage.

Baby’s...

(Creeping Baby's Breath)

A low spreading perennial whose carpets of blue-green, grass-like foliage look wonderful cascading over walls, this European native bears masses of small white to lavender blooms from late spring into summer. Commonly available cultivars include 'Alba' and 'Rosea', with white and pink blooms.

Creeping baby’s breath likes sun and well-drained, alkaline soil, and tolerates heat. This little beauty is perfect for rock gardens and walls, border edges, and small-scale groundcovers.

(Creeping Baby's Breath, Filou Rose Baby's Breath)

A low spreading perennial whose carpets of blue-green, grass-like foliage look wonderful cascading over walls, this European native bears masses of small white to lavender blooms from late spring into summer. Commonly available cultivars include 'Alba' and 'Rosea', with white and pink blooms.

Creeping baby’s breath likes sun and well-drained, alkaline soil, and tolerates heat. This little beauty is perfect for rock gardens and walls, border edges, and small-scale groundcovers.

(Creeping Baby's Breath, Filou White Baby's Breath)

A low spreading perennial whose carpets of blue-green, grass-like foliage look wonderful cascading over walls, this European native bears masses of small white to lavender blooms from late spring into summer. Commonly available cultivars include 'Alba' and 'Rosea', with white and pink blooms.

Creeping baby’s breath likes sun and well-drained, alkaline soil, and tolerates heat. This little beauty is perfect for rock gardens and walls, border edges, and small-scale groundcovers.

(Creeping Baby's Breath, Rose Creeping Baby's Breath)

A mat-forming, semi-evergreen perennial that looks wonderful cascading over rocks, creeping baby's breath is native to southern and central Europe. The cultivar 'Rosea' bears masses of small pink blooms from late spring into summer above carpets of narrow gray-breen leaves.

This plant likes sun and well-drained, alkaline soil, and tolerates heat. It is perfect for rock gardens and walls, border edges, and small-scale groundcovers.

(Filou Baby's Breath)

A low spreading perennial whose carpets of blue-green, grass-like foliage look wonderful cascading over walls, this European native bears masses of small white to lavender blooms from late spring into summer. Commonly available cultivars include 'Alba' and 'Rosea', with white and pink blooms.

Creeping baby’s breath likes sun and well-drained, alkaline soil, and tolerates heat. This little beauty is perfect for rock gardens and walls, border edges, and small-scale groundcovers.

(Haberlea, Hardy African Violet, Resurrection Plant)

When someone refers to this plant as a hardy African violet, don't think he is referring to a species of Saintpaulia that you grow on a kitchen windowsill. It is, however, a closely related cousin but is tolerant of chilly temperatures outdoors in a rock or alpine garden. The hardy African violet, also called resurrection plant, is native to the mountains of southern and central Bulgaria and northeastern Greece. There it inhabits shaded rock nooks as a pretty groundcover.

This evergreen...

(Connie Davidson Hardy African Violet, Hardy African Violet)

Beautiful grape juice-purple flowers that blush to lavender-white sets 'Connie Davidson' apart from the usual hardy African violet species. When someone refers to this plant as a hardy African violet, don't think they are referring to a species of Saintpaulia that you grow on a kitchen windowsill. It is, however, a closely related cousin but is tolerant of chilly temperatures outdoors in a rock or alpine garden. The hardy African violet, also called resurrection plant, is native to the mountains...

(Hardy African Violet, Virginalis Hardy African Violet, White Hardy African Violet)

Don't think this is the same as the frost-sensitive African violet (Saintpaulia) that you grow on a kitchen windowsill. It is a closely related cousin but 'Virginalis' is tolerant of chilly temperatures outdoors in a rock or alpine garden. The hardy African violet, also called resurrection plant, is native to the mountains of southern and central Bulgaria and northeastern Greece. There it inhabits shaded rock nooks as a pretty groundcover.

This evergreen perennial develops into a clump...

(Hakone Grass)

Elegant arching blades, a tame and tidy habit and tolerance to shade make this lovely Japanese native an exceptional ornamental grass for the garden. Hakone grass is a slow-growing, clump-forming, herbaceous perennial that naturally resides in the forests of Japan. There are several variegated forms, which tend to be the most coveted by gardeners.

The broad, bright green blades of hakone grass arch gracefully and form spreading clumps over time. The blades can turn yellow, orange or pinkish...