(Croftway™ Snow Queen Yellow Trumpet Fuchsia, Yellow Trumpet Fuchsia)

Native to the Drakensburg mountains of South Africa, Phygelius aequalis is a tender shrubby perennial that produces spikes of beguiling dangling tubular flowers from late spring to early fall. Croftway™ Snow Queen bears soft white blooms on sturdy thigh-high stems. Pollinated by sunbirds in their native habitat, Phygelius flowers draw hummingbirds in North American gardens. This perennial can become semiwoody with time, producing strong upstanding basal branches that sucker and...

(Croftway™ Yellow Sovereign Yellow Trumpet Fuchsia, Yellow Trumpet Fuchsia)

Native to the Drakensburg mountains of South Africa, Phygelius aequalis is a tender shrubby perennial that produces spikes of beguiling dangling tubular flowers from late spring to early fall. Croftway™ Yellow Sovereign bears pale yellow blooms on sturdy thigh-high stems. Pollinated by sunbirds in their native habitat, Phygelius flowers draw hummingbirds in North American gardens. This perennial can become semiwoody with time, producing strong upstanding basal branches that sucker...

(Pink Trumpet Fuchsia)

Native to the Drakensburg mountains of South Africa, Phygelius aequalis is a tender shrubby perennial that produces spikes of beguiling dangling tubular flowers from late spring to early fall. The cultivar 'Trewidden Pink' bears soft pink flowers with yellow throats and lipstick-red lobes. Pollinated by sunbirds in their native habitat, Phygelius flowers draw hummingbirds in North American gardens. This perennial can become semiwoody with time, producing strong upstanding basal...

(Croftway™ Yellow Trumpet Fuchsia)

Native to the Drakensburg mountains of South Africa, Phygelius aequalis is a tender shrubby perennial that produces spires of beguiling dangling tubular flowers from late spring to early fall. Cultivars in the Croftway™ series bear especially dense spikes of flowers on sturdy thigh-high stems. Colors include violet, pale yellow, white, and salmon-pink. Pollinated by sunbirds in their native habitat, Phygelius flowers draw hummingbirds in North American gardens. This perennial can...

(Cape Fuchsia, Moonraker Cape Fuchsia)

A hybrid of the South African natives Phygelius capensis and P. aequalis, this spectacular perennial combines the jewel tones of the former with the more compact upright habit of the latter. Dense spikes of dangling, butter-yellow, tubular flowers appear from summer to early fall on sturdy sparsely leaved thigh-high stems. Visited by sunbirds in their native land, Phygelius blooms draw hummingbirds in North American gardens.

This fast-growing perennial can...

(Carpetgrass, Carpetweed, Fogfruit, Lippia)

Carpeting the ground around rocks in the sunshine, the lush green foliage of carpetgrass is accented in summer's warmth with flattened clusters of pale pink flowers that attract bees and butterflies. An evergreen, mat-forming perennial that can tolerate heat and humidity as well as chilly winters, it is native to the southwestern United States southward into South America as far as Chile and Argentina.

The sprawling stems have tufts of oval-shaped leaves that have tiny teeth on their edges. The...

(Lanceleaf Fogfruit, Lanceleaf Lippia, Northern Fogfruit)

Carpeting the ground, the lush light green foliage of northern fogfruit is accented in summer's warmth with tiny clusters of pale lavender-pink flowers that attract bees and butterflies. A semi-evergreen to deciduous, mat-forming perennial it can tolerate heat and humidity as well as chilly winters, it is native to southeastern Canada, most of the United States southward into Mexico.

The sprawling to upright, purplish stems have pairs of lance-shaped leaves that have tiny teeth on their edges....

(Fogfruit, Frogfruit, Lippia, Turkey Tangle Frogfruit)

Carpeting the ground around rocks in the sunshine, the lush green foliage of fogfruit is accented in summer's warmth with tiny clusters of pale pink flowers that attract bees and butterflies. An evergreen, mat-forming perennial that can tolerate heat and humidity as well as chilly winters, it is native to the southern half of the United States southward into South America.

The sprawling stems have tufts of lance-shaped leaves that have tiny teeth on their edges. Begin medium to light gray-green...

(Black Bamboo, Running Bamboo)

Black bamboo looks beautiful throughout the year. Its tall, attractive green and black stems (culms) are glossy and offer vertical architectural appeal. This species has been cultivated for centuries in its native China and few wild populations are known to exist. It was first introduced as an ornamental in the United States in the early nineteenth century and has become naturalized in several southeastern states, such as Georgia and South Carolina. There are many desirable cultivated varieties to...

(Cape Gooseberry, Peruvian Groundcherry)

Believed native to the coastal highlands of Peru and northern Chile, the cape gooseberry was widely grown in southern Africa and Australia in the 19th century as a fruit to make tasty deserts and jams. This tender perennial - often grown as a summer annual in temperate climates - becomes a bushy herb about waist high. Both winter frosts and extreme summertime droughts kill the plant. It now grows as a naturalized weed across Hawaii, southern Asia, central Africa and the Caribbean.

The haired,...