(Common Smokebush, European Smokebush, Royal Purple Smokebush)

The fantastic 'Royal Purple' smokebush displays dark, dusty burgundy to purple leaves in spring and summer that turn crimson in autumn. These create the perfect background for its large puffs of burgundy purple smoke.

At its showiest, few shrubs are as pretty and effusive as the common smokebush. Its small flowers produce puffy ivory, pink or purple clouds of smoky fruits that persist for a couple of weeks before dissipating. It does not become too large and may be multi-trunked and shrubby or...

(Common Smokebush)

Velvet cloak smokebush is a medium-sized, deciduous shrub to small tree that is native to regions from southern Europe to eastern China. This striking accent or specimen shrub has deep purplish rounded leaves that change to orange and red colors in the fall. In summer, large panicles of inconspicuous flowers appear followed by long, curled, densely-packed, hair-like fruits that look like large puffs of smoke. These are highly ornamental and purplish-red in color. 'Velvet Cloak' retains this leaf...

(Common Smokebush, European Smokebush, Young Lady Smokebush)

Young lady smokebush is a medium-sized deciduous shrub that originates from regions in southern Europe to eastern Asia. This compact selection has a mounded habit and oval-shaped, medium green leaves that turn yellow, orange or red in the fall. In summer, it produces many large panicles of inconspicuous flowers followed by long, curled, densely-packed, hair-like fruits that look like large puffs of smoke. These are dusty purple-pink and highly ornamental.

Smokebush prefers sites with moderately...

(Clusterberry)

The glossy green foliage and clusters of bright red berries in fall and winter make clusterberry a beautiful shrub for well-drained soils. An evergreen native to the Yunnan Province of western China, it attains a rounded, mounding, yet spreading form with loose, reddish branches that arch. The leaves are exquisitely oval and deeply veined, ranging in color from light to dark-green above, with a yellowish-white, fuzzy underside. In late summer small white flowers are produced on small branched clusters,...

(Grey Cotoneaster)

Grey cotoneaster is a large, broadleaf, evergreen shrub native to the Yunnan province of China. It has gray-green leaves and pretty orange-red fruits in autumn. Although the leaves are glossy, they are covered in tiny hairs that give them a silver-gray or blue-green tint. Leaf undersides of this salt-tolerant shrub are usually colored a lighter green, powdery beige or silver. The clusters of white flowers appear in the heat of summer, and develop into showy bunches of orange-red berries that are...

(Colewort, Giant Sea Kale)

A massive mound of ornate leaves are attractive by themselves on the colewort, but the many-branched flower stems with wispy, baby's breath-like white flowers makes this herbaceous perennial a showstopper. Colewort, a relative of cabbage and broccoli, is native to western Asia's Caucasus Mountains.

In spring, a rosette of long-stemmed dark green leaves emerge from the ground. Each laef blade is kidney-shaped or oval with a puckering center and toothed, bristled edges. It creates an alluring...

(Sea Kale)

Delicious in taste and in visual texture, sea kale has ruffled grayish blue-green leaves and pretty white blossoms in very late spring. This herbaceous perennial can be evergreen in mild winter areas but often dies back with subfreezing temperatures. It is often grown as an annual vegetable, particularly in its native range of coastal northern and western Europe and around the Black Sea.

With spring coolness, the young leaves are purplish gray and eventually grow into a large blade that is floppy...

Valued for its handsome foliage and shade tolerance, this evergreen succulent subshrub is native to extreme southeastern Africa. Its oval, fleshy, glossy green leaves are paired along upright to sprawling stems that can reach knee height. The leaves bear small milky dots along their margins. Large frothy clusters of small yellowish white flowers appear at the branch tips in late fall and winter. The fragrant blooms attact hummingbirds.

Like most succulents, this plant prefers fast drainage, whether...

(Jade Plant)

Almost everyone knows the ever-popular jade plant. This South African succulent is a rubbery-stemmed evergreen shrub with fleshy bright green leaves that look outstanding year round. In late-winter or spring it produces a wealth of tiny, starry white or pinkish flowers borne in small clusters. It is best known as a popular house plant, which can reach substantial proportions over the years, but also makes an outstanding landscape specimen in arid regions where winters are very mild.

Jade plant...

(Jade Plant)

The starry pink flowers of 'Pink Beauty' usually peak in early to mid winter. The fragrant blooms are unusually profuse giving plants a frothy pink look. Its fleshy green leaves become red-edged when weather becomes chilly or excessively hot and dry.

Almost everyone knows the ever-popular jade plant. This South African succulent is a rubbery-stemmed evergreen shrub with fleshy bright green leaves that look outstanding year round. In late-winter or spring it produces a wealth of tiny, starry white...