(Australian Willow, Wilga)

Finely textured leaves and a slightly weeping habit make this an elegant tree for hot, dry climates. A small, slow-growing, broadleaf evergreen from eastern Australia, it has ascending, arching central branches and pendulous outer branches, the whole forming a rounded crown. Branching begins low on the trunk. The aromatic, willowy, narrowly lance shaped leaves dangle gracefully from the branches. They are shiny dark green in partially shaded sites, and somewhat paler in sunny locations. This tree...

(Swamp Jessamine)

Swamp jessamine is a rare, twining, evergreen vine native to the extreme southeastern United States. In late winter to mid-spring and again in the fall, clear, odorless, yellow trumpet-shaped flowers cover this plant. Its dark green, lance-shaped leaves with rounded bases cover red-brown, fissured to fluted stems. The leaves turn slightly yellow-green the fall. The fruit is a long, beaked capsule and appears in the summer.

Swamp jessamine should be placed in sun to part shade in slightly acid,...

(Carolina Jessamine)

The official flower of South Carolina, Carolina jessamine is a twining, evergreen vine that is native to the southeastern United States from Virginia to eastern Texas. Its yellow, sweetly fragrant, funnel-shaped blooms appear from very early to mid-spring and may bloom again sporadically in summer and fall. Its dense twining stems are lined with shiny dark green leaves that may turn bronze tones in winter. Several cultivars are available, including the double-flowered 'Pride of Augusta' and the large-flowered...

(Carolina Jessamine)

The official flower of South Carolina, Carolina jessamine is a twining, evergreen vine that is native to the southeastern United States from Virginia to eastern Texas. Its yellow, sweetly fragrant, funnel-shaped blooms appear from very early to mid-spring and may bloom again sporadically in summer and fall. Its dense twining stems are lined with shiny dark green leaves that may turn bronze tones in winter. Several cultivars are available, including the double-flowered 'Pride of Augusta' and the large-flowered...

(Carolina Jessamine)

The official flower of South Carolina, Carolina jessamine is a twining, evergreen vine that is native to the southeastern United States from Virginia to eastern Texas. Its yellow, sweetly fragrant, funnel-shaped blooms appear from very early to mid-spring and may bloom again sporadically in summer and fall. Its dense twining stems are lined with shiny dark green leaves that may turn bronze tones in winter. Several cultivars are available, including the double-flowered 'Pride of Augusta' and the large-flowered...

(Carolina Jessamine, Margarita Carolina Jessamine)

The official flower of South Carolina, Carolina jessamine is a twining, evergreen vine that is native to the southeastern United States from Virginia to eastern Texas. Its yellow, sweetly fragrant, funnel-shaped blooms appear from very early to mid-spring and may bloom again sporadically in summer and fall. Its dense twining stems are lined with shiny dark green leaves that may turn bronze tones in winter. Several cultivars are available, including the double-flowered 'Pride of Augusta' and the large-flowered...

(Carolina Jessamine)

Carolina jessamine is a twining evergreen vine that is native from the southeastern United States to Mexico, and Central America. The cultivar 'Pride of Augusta' blooms in late winter into early spring and again in the fall with double, funnel-shaped, yellow flowers. Its dense twining stems are lined with shiny dark green leaves that may turn yellow to purple in fall.

Carolina jessamine ‘Pride of Augusta’ is a low-maintenance plant and is happiest in full to partial sun and slightly acidic, organic-rich...

(Lydia Broom)

Lydia woadwaxen is a lovely small deciduous shrub from rocky slopes of southeastern Europe and western, northern, and southern Turkey. In gardens it is represented mostly by prostrate forms, but in the wild it is often upright in habit. A noninvasive cousin of the familiar tall brooms (Cytisus spp.), it bears stiff branches and smallish green leaves for a fine textured look. The stems spread around stones and cascade gracefully off ledges. Their green color is welcome in the winter garden....

(Sweet Broom)

This beautiful broom brightens the late winter garden and ushers in early spring with its branches of golden yellow flowers. Some believe that this semi-evergreen shrub is actually a naturally occurring hybrid between two Genista from the Canary Islands Genista stenopetalus and G. canariensis, but this is not confirmed.

It is a large attractive shrub with slender upright and arching branches lined with very small green leaves. These branches were once cut and bundled...

(Hybrid Cranesbill)

Ornately lobed leaves create a pretty backdrop for the magenta-violet flowers with blue-black centers of the Ann Folkard cranesbill. Blooming occurs from late spring to fall, this hybrid's scrambling stems on spreading to mounded perennial plants require little maintenance.

The stems and rounded, deeply dissected leaves of this geranium are light green to yellow-green and hairy. In late fall the leaves turn shades of yellow and red. Its delicate flowers first appear when temperatures heat up...