Boldly striped green and creamy yellow sword-like leaves are topped by tall, showy spikes of fragrant, ivory white blooms in spring. Forms dramatic clumps with age. Use to create contrasting textures as a garden accent or container plant. Evergreen.
USDA Zone: 4 – 9
Light Needs: Full sun
Water Needs: Once established, water occasionally; more in extreme heat or containers.
Masses of pink, yellow and magenta flowers! Beautiful spreading habit, useful in natural form to brighten flower beds, mass as a ground cover, or use as a low hedge. Topiary forms are perfect for accenting borders or displaying in containers. Tolerates heat and drought, when established in the landscape. Evergreen in frost-free areas.
USDA Zone: 9 – 11
Light Needs: Full sun
Water Needs: Once established, water occasionally; more in extreme heat or containers.
Spectacular perennial with spikes of true blue flowers. Ideal for rock gardens, containers and naturalized areas. Vibrant blue flowers are excellent in combination with golden flowered annuals and perennials in the mixed border. Herbaceous perennial.
USDA Zone: 4 – 9
Light Needs: Full sun
Water Needs: Once established, needs only occasional watering.
Stunning, large, lipstick pink blooms have a small red eye, exotic darker venation, and pale pink stamens with yellow anthers. An upright, rounded form with soft green, purple-tinted foliage that provides an attractive backdrop to the showy blooms. A perfect addition to sunny beds and borders. An herbaceous perennial.
USDA Zone: 4 – 10
Light Needs: Full sun
Water Needs: Water regularly to maintain evenly moist soil – weekly, or more often.
A hybrid between Asiatic Lilies and the classic Easter Lilies. Large, pure white flowers on strong, sturdy stems rise above dark green foliage. An excellent cut flower, bred for longer vase life. Good in containers, perennial beds, or borders.
USDA Zone: 3 – 9
Light Needs: Full sun
Water Needs: Water regularly to keep soil semi-moist, but never soggy.
A delightful woody vine valued for its drooping clusters of fragrant, violet-blue, pea-like flowers that bloom in spring. The flowers are followed by green compound foliage on the twining stems. Perfect for covering patios, arbors, or fences. Works well trained into a small tree as the thick, woody, trunk-like stems develop. Deciduous.
USDA Zone: 5 – 8
Light Needs: Full sun, Partial sun
Water Needs: Water regularly – weekly, or more often in extreme heat.
Spectacular summer color from lightly fragrant, dark violet-purple flower spikes. A fast growing shrub that works well as a foundation shrub, an accent plant or as a background in borders. Slightly hardier than other varieties, but may die to ground in cold winter areas, emerging vigorously in spring. Deciduous.
USDA Zone: 5 – 9
Light Needs: Full sun, Partial sun
Water Needs: Water regularly – weekly, or more often in extreme heat or containers.
A beautiful, low, mounded, spreading form with a profusion of raspberry-pink blossom-like bracts and contrasting variegated foliage. Perfect for hanging baskets, or as a colorful shrub or groundcover in small sunny spaces. One of the hardiest varieties! Evergreen in frost-free climates; provides superb warm season color in colder winter areas.
USDA Zone: 10 – 11
Light Needs: Full sun
Water Needs: Once established, water occasionally; more in extreme heat or containers.
This magnificent Southwestern native produces five-foot-tall wands of bright yellow, waxy, inch-long trumpet flowers in early spring. Blooms tower above the mound of thick, sword-shaped, gray-green, succulent foliage, and persist until fall. A must have for sunny xeric and water-wise gardens, as a specimen or in a showy mass planting. Evergreen.
USDA Zone: 5 – 11
Light Needs: Full sun
Water Needs: Once established, water occasionally; more in extreme heat or containers.
A Mediterranean beauty with arching stems that spill freely over a rock wall or container edge. Delightful lavender-blue flowers appear in spring. The aromatic, needle-like evergreen foliage is valued as a culinary herb or in potpourri. This rugged, deer resistant, evergreen shrub tolerates poor soils, drought, and salt spray.
USDA Zone: 8 – 10
Light Needs: Full sun
Water Needs: Once established, water occasionally; more in extreme heat or containers.
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