(Papyrus)

This bladeless dwarf papyrus provides a vertical accent to moist gardens and containers. Its slender stems are topped with spherical, grassy heads that look bold and interesting. This clump-forming evergreen sedge is a tender perennial that originates from southeastern Africa. Over time it spreads via brown rhizomes (underground stems).

The round or three-sided upright stems are green when young and mature to dark green. They are topped with a plume of grassy filaments that look appealing all...

(Miniature Papyrus)

African in origin, miniature papyrus is a super compact sedge adapted to moist ground and riversides. This evergreen tender perennial is best suited to containers and lowland gardens, and even though it's only hardy to zone 9 it can be grown as an annual in areas with cold winters.

This compact papyrus forms bunches of pinwheel-like floral heads and foliage. The arching stems are topped with fine green bracts. When weather is warm and accommodating, green and reddish brown spikelets of flowers...

(Black Titi, He Huckleberry, Leatherwood, Swamp Titi)

Fragrant white flowers and glossy green leaves make the swamp titi a worthwhile shrub for the garden, although rarely used. Native to the swamps of the southeastern United States, from Virginia to Florida, it suckers from its roots to form broad thickets. A plant looks sprawling and spreading, with an open habit with bent and contorted branches. In mild winter areas it is mostly evergreen, but is fully deciduous where the winters provide subfreezing temperatures.

The long, tongue-like leaves...

(Japanese Hollyfern, Japanese Netvein Hollyfern)

Japanese holly fern is an evergreen to deciduous fern with fronds that are glossy and dark green with toothed edges resembling holly. Large spore structures are visible on the undersides of fronds.

Grow in average to fertile, moist but well-drained soil with humus in shade or part shade. Make sure not to plant too deeply. Where evergreen, Japanese Holly fern makes a rich, green groundcover in winter and summer. Holly fern is also an interesting specimen plant and makes an excellent houseplant....

(Hollyfern, Japanese Netvein Hollyfern)

Japanese netvein holly fern is an evergreen to deciduous fern with fronds that are glossy and dark green with deeply cut edges resembling holly. 'Rochfordianum' leaflets have jagged leaf margins, giving it a fringed appearance. Large spore structures are visible on the undersides of fronds.

Grow in average to fertile, moist but well-drained soil with humus in shade or part shade. Where evergreen, Japanese Holly fern makes a rich, green groundcover in winter and summer. Holly fern is also an interesting...

(Asian Netvein Hollyfern, Fortune's Holly Fern)

Asian netvein hollyfern is an evergreen fern with fronds bearing pale, dull green and finely divided, sickle-shaped leaflets.

Grow this plant in average to fertile, moist but well-drained soil in shade or part shade. Incorporating compost or other humus is great for this plant's health and vigor. Asian netvein hollyfern makes a rich, green groundcover in winter and summer. It is also an interesting specimen plant and makes an excellent houseplant.

(Scotch Broom)

Bright yellow blooms cover this hybrid broom for a lovely display in spring and summer. It is a woody shrub, evergreen in mild climates, deciduous in cooler locations and somewhat short-lived. The gracefully arching, green branches bear small, simple leaves. The strongly fragrant flowers are typical of peas or beans; larger, rounded petals subtend smaller petals that form a lip or keeled beak. They are produced solitarily or in loose clusters on short stalks in the foliage. Long lasting blooms are...

(Allgold Scotch Broom, Scotch Broom)

Bright yellow blooms cover this hybrid broom for a lovely display in spring and summer. It is a woody shrub, evergreen in mild climates, deciduous in cooler locations and somewhat short-lived. The gracefully arching, green branches bear small, simple leaves. The strongly fragrant flowers are typical of peas or beans; larger, rounded petals subtend smaller petals that form a lip or keeled beak. They are produced solitarily or in loose clusters on short stalks in the foliage. The long lasting blooms...

(Holland Scotch Broom, Scotch Broom)

Bright blooms cover this hybrid broom for a lovely display in spring and summer. It is a woody shrub, evergreen in mild climates, deciduous in cooler locations and somewhat short-lived. The gracefully arching, green branches bear small, simple leaves. Broom ‘Hollandia’ produce flowers in shades of salmon-pink to rose tinted with yellow. The strongly fragrant blooms are typical of peas or beans; larger, rounded petals subtend smaller petals that form a lip or keeled beak. They are produced solitarily...

(Dahlia)

Nothing beats dahlias as everblooming warm season bedding plants and cut flowers.

Named for Swedish botanist and student of Linnaeus, Anders Dahl (1751 to 1789), this genus in the daisy family consists of over 30-species, many more subspecies and varieties and literally thousands of cultivated varieties. All are herbaceous tender perennials with bulbous underground tuberous roots, which are colloquially referred to as "tubers" even though the term is botanically incorrect.

Originating from...