(Thornless Honeylocust)

Honeylocust is a spiny, lacy-leaved, medium to large deciduous tree native to the central and eastern United States and southern Ontario. The cultivar 'Shademaster' grows rapidly into a thornless, strong-trunked tree with ascending branches, a symmetrical rounded crown, and dark green foliage that drops relatively late in fall.

Like most honeylocusts, 'Shademaster' has pinnately compound leaves that cast filtered shade. They emerge relatively late in spring and turn dull yellow before dropping...

(Thornless Honeylocust)

Honeylocust is a spiny, lacy-leaved, medium to large deciduous tree native to the central and eastern United States and southern Ontario. Introduced in 1957 by Cole Nursery of Painesville, Ohio, the honeylocust cultivar Skyline® forms a thornless, strong-trunked, symmetrical tree with a conical crown that becomes dome-shaped with age.

Like other honeylocusts, Skyline® has pinnately compound leaves that emerge relatively late in spring and cast filtered shade. This cultivar's leaves are bronze-tinged...

(Thornless Honeylocust)

Honeylocust is a spiny, lacy-leaved, medium to large deciduous tree native to the central and eastern United States and southern Ontario. The thornless cultivar Spectrum™ has golden-yellow spring foliage that stays yellower than that of Gleditsia triacanthos Sunburst®.

Like other honeylocusts, Spectrum™ has pinnately compound leaves that emerge relatively late in spring and cast filtered shade. This cultivar's leaves flush bright golden yellow in spring, fade to greenish yellow in summer,...

(Climbing Lily, Flame Lily, Gloriosa Lily)

Scrambling through shrubs or climbing up a trellis, gloriosa lily is loved for its audacious flowers that are twisting and colored red, yellow and green. A cold-tender herbaceous perennial from tropical Africa and parts of southern India, it grows from tubers (fleshy swollen underground stems).

Bright green, oval to lance-shaped leaves line the thin clambering stems that emerge each spring. With the warmth of early summer, stem tips and side branches display light green flower buds that then...

(Climbing Lily, Flame Lily, Gloriosa Lily)

Scrambling through shrubs or climbing up a trellis, gloriosa lily is loved for its audacious flowers that are twisting and colored red, yellow and green. A cold-tender herbaceous perennial from tropical Africa and parts of southern India, it grows from tubers (fleshy swollen underground stems).

Bright green, oval to lance-shaped leaves line the thin clambering stems that emerge each spring. With the warmth of early summer, stem tips and side branches display light green flower buds that then...

(Flame Lily, Gloriosa Lily, Rothschild's Flame Lily)

This cultivar of a tender, perennial tuber from Africa and India is a highly distinctive member of the lily family. The bulb produces lax slender stems that climb readily on shrubs or with support, using the curling tips of their leaves. The stems bloom at their tips with exotic nodding flowers that have tepals (modified leaves) turned backward as if blown by a strong headwind and long stamens that curve forward. The tepals are partly folded on the center line and have wavy edges. They are bright...

(Manna Grass, Reed Sweetgrass)

The vigorous, densely foliage, spreading reed sweetgrass adds weeping foliage to shallow edges and waters of lakes, ponds and streambanks. A perennial aquatic that spreads by rhizomes (underground stems), it is native to a large area of temperate Europe and Asia, from Great Britain eastward to Japan. The leaves are strap-like and first emerge pink before deepening to a deep green and bend gracefully over as they lengthen. In mid and late summer, small spikelets of purple-green flowers form on slender...

(Manna Grass, Reed Sweetgrass, Variegated Manna Grass)

The vigorous, densely foliaged, spreading variegated reed sweet grass adds a soft, weeping foliage to shallow edges and waters of lakes, ponds and streambanks. A perennial aquatic that spreads by rhizomes (underground stems), it is native to a large area of temperate Europe and Asia, from Great Britain eastward to Japan. The leaves are strap-like and first emerge pink before maturing to a striped display of white, cream and deep green. The leaf blades bend gracefully over as they lengthen. In mid...

(River Star)

The fine, light silvery gray foliage of river star accentuates the small, dainty, fragrant white flowers in spring and summer. An evergreen shrub that attains an upright, V-shaped habit, it is native to southern Africa's moist or waterlogged soils around or in rivers.

The upright stems are silvery gray or pale green and thin, resembling fibers of a broom. The leaves are the same color, narrow and needle-like and line the stems that can slightly arch. From spring to fall, perhaps in hiatus only...

(Globe Amaranth, Globe Flower, Gomphrena)

Bearing masses of distinctive, brightly colored flower heads for many weeks, this bushy, medium-sized, tender herbaceous perennial is popular as an annual for bedding and mixed borders. It is native to rocky banks from northern Mexico to southern Texas and New Mexico.

Plants form neat clumps of stiff upright stems with simple, lance-shaped, slightly fuzzy leaves of medium green. From summer to fall, round, persistent, thimble-shaped heads of papery orange bracts appear. Cultivars with red...