Ternstroemia gymnantherea is a densely branched evergreen shrub with an upright habit. New foliage is bronzy-red, summer color is very dark green, winter may produce a rich reddish bronze hue. Branches have the leaves clustered at their ends, giving it […]

Bushy, evergreen shrub with leathery, blueish to dark green leaves. From winter to spring, red, pink, or yellowish white, single flowers bloom. Good shrub border plant in warm climates.

Oreades, also known as Gippsland or Victorian waratah, is a large, bushy shrub with lance-shaped to obobate, matte, dark green leaves. Produces flowerheads, each consisting of a ring of light green or pink bracts and tubular red flowers. In general, […]

This group of evergreen shrubs and small trees is native to the dry woodlands of Australia. Grown for their tubular flowers that are surrounded by overlapping, colored bracts, and followed by “boat-shaped” woody seed pods. For best results, grow this […]

Perky has smaller leaves than the species with greenish white calyces. In general, this rosette-forming perennial has late spring to midsummer red flowers and hairy, heart-shaped or triangular, 5 to 7 lobed leaves. Though this plant thrives in moist, humus-rich […]

Rhizomatous perennial with a woody base and trailing to upright habit. Leaves are oval, fleshy, and blueish green to green. Cymes of white flowers bloom in spring.

Var. violacea produces deep violet flowers. Cyanocrocus is a small, cormous perennial with semi-upright, narrowly lance-shaped, basal leaves. Produces 1 or 2 open funnel-shaped deep violet flowers. In general, this cormus perennial has narrow, lance-shaped leaves, and crocus-like flowers that […]

Cyanocrocus is a small, cormous perennial with semi-upright, narrowly lance-shaped, basal leaves. Produces 1 or 2 open funnel-shaped, intense gentian-blue flowers with white throats and faint white veins. In general, this cormus perennial has narrow, lance-shaped leaves, and brillant blue, […]

Speciosa is an evergreen twining climber with sparsely branced stems and branched leaves, each with 5 widely obovate, thick, lustrous, deep green leaflets. Produces light yellow-green flowers with downy lobes in dense racemes. In general, this tropical, evergreen flowering vine […]

This tropical, evergreen flowering vine climbs by twining and is grown primarily for its trumpet or funnel-shaped, 5 lobed flowers that hang in pendent racemes from bare branches. Leaves on younger plants are skimpy, but fill in with age. Leaves […]