(China Pink, Rosemarie White)

Bred for their dwarf size and early flowering habit, Rosemarie Series hybrids are a dependable source of long-lasting color in the summer garden. Their large, single, fringed flowers appear in various solid and bicolor shades of white, pink and red. They are borne profusely atop compact domes of linear, pale green foliage, and bloom from spring throughout summer. This selection, ‘Rosemarie White,’ has ver large white flowers.

Derived from a short-lived perennial species native to China, Rosemarie...

(Twinspur)

Cordate twinspur is a low-growing perennial to tender perennial that is native to South Africa. Its blue-green, heart-shaped, small leaves often have a gray tint. This everblooming plant bears loose spiky clusters of dark pink flowers that have two spurs, thus the common name twinspur. These spurs contain oils that attract bees and butterflies.

A preferred location for cordate twinspur is a full to partial sun exposure in humus-rich, crumbly, well-draining soil. It performs best where summers...

(Silver Dichondra, Silver Ponysfoot)

Dichondra is a low-maintenance, creeping or trailing plant native to the southwestern United States. It is an evergreen perennial in warm climates but is often used as an annual in frost-prone climates. The flowers are small and insignificant. The leaves are heart-shaped to kidney-shaped and attached to long, trailing stems. This vigorously fast growing plant can grow very long in just one season.

Dichondra is very heat and drought tolerant and requires well-drained soil and full sun. Use it...

(Dichondra, Silver Falls Dichondra, Silver Ponysfoot)

Dichondra is a low-maintenance, creeping or trailing plant native to the southwestern United States. It is an evergreen perennial in warm climates but is often used as an annual in cooler, frost-prone climates. The flowers are small and insignificant. The leaves of 'Silver Falls' are heart-shaped, covered with soft, silver hairs and attached to long, trailing stems. This vigorously fast growing plant can grow very long in just one season.

Silver Falls dichondra is very heat and drought tolerant...

(Asian Ponysfoot, Dichondra, Kidneyweed)

With emerald green to grayish green leaves that look like tiny waterlily pads, Asian ponysfoot is a low spreading groundcover once heavily used as a substitute for turfgrass in warm climates. An herbaceous tender perennial from eastern Asia, it sprawls outward and sends out roots from the horizontal stems as it creeps.

The small leaves are lush green to slightly grayish green are are shaped like a kidney or more rounded and like a waterlily leaf. In summer and fall, tiny flowers appear, ranging...

(Blue Evergreen Hydrangea, Chinese Quinine, Fever Flower)

This less common member of the hydrangea family produces lovely clusters of pink or blue summer flowers followed by magnificent blue berries. As its name suggests, evergreen blue hydrangea is a fully evergreen shrub, though it has been known to get nipped back by light winter freezes. This tropical to subtropical plant hails from southern Asia, from China and India southward to Indonesia, where it naturally inhabits damp, shrubby areas and forest margins.

Its long, oval leaves are medium green...

(Soft Tree Fern, Tasmanian Tree Fern)

Tasmanian tree fern is a tree-like fern native to the forests of tropical and temperate regions of eastern Australia and Tasmania. In milder regions it is an evergreen. The upright, trunk-like rhizome is covered with a thick, red, fuzzy mat of roots. The numerous bold, long, arching, leathery fronds are light green when they first emerge and darken with age. The leaflets on each frond are quite finely cut.

Tasmanian tree fern should be grown in a humusy moist soil that is acidic. A partial to...

(Hurricane Palm, Princess Palm)

A healthy hurricane palm has a stately, slender gray trunk and a noble, elegant canopy of feathery fronds. This evergreen plant is native to the coastal forest of the Mascarene Islands, just to the east of Madagascar in the Indian Ocean. It is in danger of extinction there because of deforestation and over-harvest for eating as heart-of-palm.

The trunk is closely set with ring scars left from old leaf fronds. The trunk base often swells and flares out slightly. New fronds slowly unfurl from...

(Whiteshaft Hurricane Palm, Whiteshaft Princess Palm)

A healthy hurricane palm has a stately, slender gray trunk and a noble, elegant canopy of feathery fronds. Furfuraceum is among the most prized natural varieties for the garden because of its white crownshaft and blue-green leaves. This evergreen plant is native to the coastal forest of the Mascarene Islands, just to the east of Madagascar in the Indian Ocean. It is in danger of extinction there because of deforestation and over-harvest for eating as heart-of-palm.

The trunk is closely...

(Dumbcane)

Native to Brazil, this frost-sensitive tender perennial is commonly grown as a houseplant. Dumbcane's large, waxy, green leaves are mottled with blotches of white, cream or yellow. As its lower leaves are shed its stem becomes more evident. All parts of this plant are poisonous if eaten and its sap may cause skin irritation.

Dumbcane should be given bright indirect light or dappled sunlight and shade that occurs under teres. Direct sunlight is appropriate only in midwinter or when it occurs very...