Bambusa bambos ( Giant Thorny Bamboo )

This soft, thick-walled variety grows very fast and tall with edible shoots. Thorny lower branches are long and wiry. Clump bamboos have underground stems that sprout vertical shoots much closer to their parent plants, growing slowly outward. Clumpers tend to […]

Bambusa arnhemica ( Bamboo )

This variety comes from Northern Territory, Australia and grows along waterways. Its thick culms with short internodes grow in dense clumps with low branches. Clump bamboos have underground stems that sprout vertical shoots much closer to their parent plants, growing […]

Bacopa ( Water Hyssop )

The cultivar ‘Mauve Pink’ is a low-growing perennial which produces a profusion of tiny, mauve-pink flowers and is usually grown as an annual. Leaves are rounded and mid-green. Flowers are pink and star-shaped. Great in hanging baskets, or as a […]

Baccharis halimifolia ( Groundsel Bush )

The cultivar ‘Baccharis’ is a multi-stemmed deciduous shrub with gray-green to rich green leaves. The habit is very rounded, 5 to 12 feet tall and wide. In late summer and fall, fruit with fine white hairs covers the bush on […]

Axonopus affinis ( Carpet Grass )

This grass, known as carpet grass, has two to five ascending spiked seedheads from flattened, smooth stolons. Smooth leaf blades with rounded tips. Long hairs appear on leaf sheath margin and base margin. Seed and stolon reproduction. Prefers moist, low […]

Aurinia saxatilis ( Cloth of Gold )

The cultivar ‘Variegata” is a perennial with hairy, gray-green leaves to 3 inches long with irregular creamy-colored margins. Grows in mounded clusters. Flowers grow on stalks above foliage. Produces dense clusters of tiny golden yellow flowers in spring and early […]

Aucuba japonica ( Serrated Japanese Laurel )

The cultivar ‘Serratifolia’ is a dependable shrub with dense, glossy green foliage. Does excellent in shady areas. Responds very well to pruning. Well-used in potter tubs on a shady deck or as landscape. Once established, this plant is drought tolerant. […]

Aucuba japonica ( Japanese Aucuba )

Rounded, evergreen, shade-loving shrub with elliptic, glossy, leaves, often having yellow spots or variegations. In spring bears small purple-red flowers, female plants produce red berries. In cooler climates, this plant can take more sun, but really shines in deep shade […]

Aubrieta deltoidea ( Common Aubrieta )

The cultivar ‘Joy’ is a low-growing, mat-forming, spreading perennial with soft, medium green leaves. ‘Joy’ bears double, cross-shaped, short-stemmed, violet-mauve blooms held in sparsely-flowered racemes, which are profusely borne in spring. Grows to 2 inches tall and spreads to 24 […]