(Red Ivy)

The lustrous, purple and metallic silver foliage of this tropical plant is elegant. Red ivy is a low-growing, spreading tender perennial native to India and Indonesia. The puckered leaves are heart or oval-shaped, have scalloped, toothed edges and are silvery green on top and reddish-purple underneath. The prostrate stems sprawl along the ground, rooting when in contact with the soil. Interesting tiny, lobed, bell-shaped, white flowers are held in spikes on the stem tips. These appear in spring and...

(Purple Waffle Plant)

Purple waffle plant is a compact, prostrate, evergreen tropical perennial with small, dark green and burgundy leaves and tiny white flowers. The oval leaves are crinkled with curled edges and look rough and rigid but feel soft to the touch. They are dark green with purple tones above and burgundy red color underneath. In the warm months, small, white, flowers are produced in spikes at the ends of the stems and contrast nicely against the dark foliage.

Grow purple waffle plant in warm, tropical...

(Herniary Breastwort, Rupturewort, Smooth Rupturewort)

Consider this small green plant a semi-succulent, sun-loving version of the popular, tiny leaved groundcover, baby’s tears. European in origin, rupturewort is a beautiful ground hugger for containers and small gardens in frost free climates. Unlike baby’s tears, it produces a taproot which enables it to resist drought.

This evenly green plant has densely packed, tiny, oval leaves that create a blanket of green over time. It rarely flowers and when it does, the blooms are tiny and insignificant....

(Redflower False Yucca)

This is a tough succulent perennial that blooms over an incredibly long season once temperatures rise in the southwestern summers. It is native to the arid lands of Texas and Mexico, growing in well-drained soils with both grasses and agaves. It is strong enough to endure reflected pavement heat in the medians of low desert highways if provided irrigation. Narrow leaves give it a fine texture. Its neat clumps slowly spreading slowly if adequate water is provided.

Red-flowered false yucca...

(Redflower False Yucca, Yellow Sun False Yucca)

This is a tough succulent perennial that blooms over an incredibly long season once temperatures rise in the southwestern summers. It is native to the arid lands of Texas and Mexico, growing in well-drained soils with both grasses and agaves. It is strong enough to endure reflected pavement heat in the medians of low desert highways if provided irrigation. Narrow leaves give it a fine texture. Its neat clumps slowly spreading slowly if adequate water is provided.

Yellow-flowered false yucca...

(Spanish Shawl)

Sprawling, dark green foliage adorned with pretty, fuchsia-colored flowers, Spanish shawl is a tender, tropical perennial native to the montane regions of Central America. Considered a subshrub, it naturally will grow into a fleshy-stemmed, billowing mound but is most often seen in gardens growing as a low groundcover. The small, elongated heart-shaped or pointed oblong leaves are deep green in color with varying amounts of tiny hairs. In the warm months, the foliage will be covered in many, four-petaled...

(Cutleaf Hibbertia)

Shiny, narrowly oval evergreen leaves line the gray branches of cutleaf hibbertia. It bears showy yellow flowers in springtime, sometimes for an encore in autumn. An evergreen, upright, somewhat wispy shrub that is tolerant of wind, it is native to the coastal sands and moist loams of coastal southwestern Western Australia.

The small, elongated oval green leaves are glossy and often have teeth at the tips like a holly leaf. In springtime the upright, sometimes spreading branches are lined with...

(Hybrid Hardy Hibiscus)

Hibiscus is a large genus consisting of more than 200 species of herbaceous plants, trees, and shrubs, both evergreen and deciduous. Most are native to the warm areas of the world, including the tropics, subtropics and warm-temperate regions. Chinese hibiscus is arguably the most widely planted and beloved of all tropical flowering shrubs.

Usually woody and variable in form, Hibiscus have simple leaves that are arranged alternately on the stem. They are often lobed with toothed...

(Fireball Hibiscus, Hybrid Hardy Hibiscus)

Hardy and bushy, 'Fireball' is an excellent hibiscus that is the result of extensive hybridization. This upright, semi-woody perennial has deeply lobed green leaves, similar in shape to maple leaves, with purple overtones. This is a long-blooming plant that flowers from midsummer to frost. The exceptional flowers are rich red and plate-sized. Individual flowers last only one day, though several dozen can be on one plant at a time.

This hardy hibiscus needs full to partial sun and rich to...

(Hawaiian White Hibiscus, Koki'o ke'oke'o, O'ahu White Hibiscus)

Gracefully arching branches are kissed with large white, trumpet-like flowers with a sweet fragrance in the warm months. A large evergreen shrub to small tree from the moist forests of Hawaii (Oahu and Molokai), it has relatively smooth, drab tan bark. The foliage is long and oval, with or without some small teeth on the edges, and may also have red veins or leaf stems. The white, five-petaled flowers appear at the ends of branches, year 'round when warmth and soil moisture is plentiful. Each single-form...