ZONE: 7b - 10

LIGHT: Shade

HEIGHT: 6-8 in.

SPREAD: 12 – 24 in.

SOIL: Well-drained

FLOWERS: White

LANDSCAPE VALUES:

This wild bulb from South Africa's Eastern Cape Province emerges in spring with fleshy green leaves covered with dark spots (maculata means "spotted"). A great ground cover for that shady area under a tree or in a container. Small white flowers top the beautiful foliage in spring.

ZONE: 4 - 9

LIGHT: Partial shade to shade

HEIGHT: 4 - 6 in

SPREAD: 9 - 18 in.

LANDSCAPE VALUES:

FEATHERED FRIENDS^™ ‘Noble Nightingale’ Ajuga is a striking small-leaved variety. The feather-like foliage of this evergreen ground cover is extremely glossy and is deep purple, almost black. It provides excellent texture to shady areas and is set off by cobalt blue blooms in spring. Best grown in part to full shade in moist, well-drained soil. Use as a border or ground cover plant in the shade garden. ‘Noble Nightingale’ compliments other shade plants

LIGHT: Bright - Indirect

HEIGHT: 8-10 ft

SOIL: Loose, Airy, Well Drained

LANDSCAPE VALUES:

The Ficus elastica ‘Ruby’ is an attractive, rose-tinted variety of the Ficus elastica. Just like the more common Ruby has glossy ovate leaves and a vertical growth habit with leaves are marked in red, dark pink, and cream. The vividness of the red varies between plants. The best way to keep your ruby Ficus looking its finest is by getting the lighting conditions right. While the ordinary Ficus elastica appreciates shaded spaces, you need to give ‘Ruby’ much more sun. Keep ‘Ruby’ outdoors in bright indirect light when temperatures are above 60^o and bring in when the temperatures drop. Ficus Ruby is considered toxic to humans, cats, and dogs. The sap that the Ficus secretes is irritating to the skin and can cause contact dermatitis. Wear gloves and wash hands after handling this plant.

LIGHT: Bright - Indirect

HEIGHT: 4-8 ft

SOIL: Loose, Airy, Well Drained

LANDSCAPE VALUES:

Hard to find Ficus triangularis features dramatic foliage with variegated green leaves with creamy white edges with a distinct triangular-shape. It needs a bright indirect light, and water whenever the top layer of soil feels dry. Frequent misting or humidity is recommended. It will enjoy being out on a covered bright light patio in the summer, but bring indoors when the temperatures drop below 65^o. Likes to live in the ideal spot and not be moved. Can be toxic if ingested.

ZONE: 8b - 11

LIGHT: Part shade/Filtered shade

SOIL: Well drained/ water generously

HEIGHT: to 15’

LANDSCAPE VALUES:

Angel's Trumpets are one of Mother Nature's most breathtaking plants. You can almost watch them grow as they rapidly form three-foot tall bushes. Then the real show begins. Each plant can have dozens, even hundreds, of blossoms at once. Best of all, they continue blooming all the way through frost! The Pink Angel Trumpet variety has extremely large single blossoms that measure up to twenty inches long. Extremely fragrant, especially in the evening. Angel's Trumpets are excellent container plants that make an impressive display for your deck or patio or in the Garden where they will die back to the ground in cold winters.

ZONE: 8-10

LIGHT: Sun/Part Sun

HEIGHT: 8 – 10 ft.

SOIL: Well-drained

FLOWERS: Golden-Orange

LANDSCAPE VALUES:

This pass-along angel trumpet hybrid still rates near the top of the list of great angel trumpets. Brugmansia 'Charles Grimaldi' is a vigorous deer-resistant grower reaching 8' tall by the end of each growing season. Starting in late summer and continuing into the fall, the plant is laden with up to 100 huge, 12" long, golden-orange pendent flowers. Did we mention the flowers are deliciously fragrant in the late afternoon and evening? Establish angel trumpet plants early in the season. All parts of the plant are toxic

ZONE: 8 – 10

LIGHT: Part Sun/Light Shade

HEIGHT: 4-6 ft.

SPREAD: 4 – 6 ft.

FLOWER: Red

LANDSCAPE VALUE:

A handsome, tropical looking perennial for shade gardens! Rich, glossy green leaves on a 4 ft.-6 ft. plant. Produces 8 -12 in. spikes of bright red flowers in the fall & will bloom all winter if in a protected area. Responds well to pruning. Needs some sun for best bloom/

ATTRACTS HUMMINGBIRDS AND BUTTERLIES

!FLOOD AND DROUGHT TOLERANT!

ZONE: 8 – 10

LIGHT: Part Sun/Light Shade

HEIGHT: 4-8 ft.

SPREAD: 4 – 6 ft.

FLOWER: Pink

LANDSCAPE VALUE:

Pink Firespike is a must have for southern butterfly and hummingbird gardens. This is an attractive, close and rarer relative of the red firespike, but produces long lasting spikes of pink flowers. It can grow from 5-6 feet tall. Its culture and landscape value is the same as red firespike in that it is a marvelous hummingbird attractor and a beautiful foliage plant when not in bloom. Blooms as the weather cools down in autumn and will bloom into spring unless a hard freeze knocks it down to the ground.

ATTRACTS HUMMINGBIRDS AND BUTTERLIES

!FLOOD AND DROUGHT TOLERANT!

EVERGREEN

TENDER

ZONE: 9b-11

LIGHT: FILTERED SHADE

SOIL: WELL DRAINED

DROUGHT TOLERANT

HEIGHT: 8 - 18 INCHES

SPACE: 12 INCHES

Landscape Values: Grown for its foliage indoors or outdoors in a protected spot. Easy to grow-thrives on neglect. Mildly toxic if injested to pets.

ZONE: 9 -

LIGHT: Part shade/Filtered shade SOIL: Well drained.

HEIGHT: 16 – 24 in.

SPREAD: 18 -24 in.

LANDSCAPE VALUES: One of the most cold hardy and easy to grow bromeliads! The Matchstick Plant produces dense spikes of purple tipped, pink "matchsticks" beginning in mid-winter on sturdy upright to arching spikes that emerge from the center of the medium green glossy rosettes of nearly spineless foliage. This easily enjoyed bromeliad readily produces pups or offsets and is typically grown in soil but can also be grown as a semi-epiphyte on a board as well.

ZONE: 8 - 10

LIGHT: Sun, part sun

HEIGHT: 6 - 24 in.

SPREAD: 6 - 24 in.

SOIL: Well Drained

LANDSCAPE VALUES: Tilo is a native of the tropical Americas and the Caribbean. This species is common in ornamental gardens in Cuba, Jamaica, Puerto Rico and the Virgin Islands. Across its range, it is used in folk medicine as a relaxant and general tonic. It is often used in the treatment of inflammation, influenza, infections as well as other disorders. It grows best in dry, rocky, sandy soil and attracts pollinators. The plant is also sweetly fragrant.

ZONE: 9 - 11

LIGHT: Sun to Part Shade

SOIL: Well drained/water generously

HEIGHT: 6 – 10 ft.

SPREAD: 6 - 10 ft.

LANDSCAPE VALUES:

Shameless is a true stunner!!! Tons of beautiful, 18 inches long and 9 inches wide blooms with a nice scent. A real heavy bloomer. Nice short and wide bush form-lots of horizontal branching, and lots of attractive foliage as well. Like many of our ornamental garden plants, all parts of plant are poisonous. If grown in a pot bring in during cold snaps – in the ground a heavy layer of mulch (pine needles) will protect the root and she will come up again once the weather warms. Fertilize regularly to get more blooms.