Echo is a biennial, and a short-lived perrenial, depending on climate. Foliage is gray-green, mounding and sends up 18 to 24 inch stems with double tulip-shaped flowers, in rose, white or blue. Requires good garden soil, well drained, occasional fertilizing. […]

Yellow daisy-like flowers on a shrub with grey-green foliage. Can be grown from seed. Leaves are finely cut, almost feathery. Flowers are about one inch across. Some species are evergreen shrubs, some are smaller perennial plants.

Paul Mikkelsen is a popular Christmas plant, freely branching, becomes leggy with time. Small yellow flowers surrounded by large, showy, distinctive bracts. The plants can be kept alive year-round, but for the best show, discard and buy new ones every […]

Henreitte Ecke is a less well known variety. This variety is satisfactory only in the intense autumn light of Southern California. A popular Christmas plant, it becomes leggy with time. Small yellow flowers surrounded by large, showy, distinctive bracts. The […]

Popular Christmas plant, becomes leggy with time. Double Red has impressive double forming bracts, quite showy and full, with small yellow flowers in the center. The plants can be kept alive year-round, but for the best show, discard and buy […]

This fascinating genus includes a broad variety of very different plants, including the common Poinsettias seen in Mexico and at Christmas time. Also found in the genus Euphorbia are spurges, which have many stalks that have small, pointy leaves growing […]

Euonymus nanus var. turkestanis is a small erect shrub with slender branches. The leaves may be alternate, opposite or subopposite. In summer the foliage is an attractive blue-green, fall produces stunning brilliant tones. In May, tiny, purplish-brown flowers are borne […]

Manhattan is a semi-evergreen, depending on climate. It has an upright growth habit reaching 10 feet. In summer the foliage is glossy with good dark green color, but winter tends to fade and burn the leaves, resulting in a bedraggled […]

Silver Queen is an evergreen shrub, with an upright habit and an umbrella shaped top. It can accept pruning to keep it smaller, or trained as a tree with it’s attractive curving trunk. The leaves are oval-round, 1 to 2 […]

President Gauthier is an evergreen shrub with an upright habit and an umbrella shaped top. It can accept pruning to keep it smaller, or trained as a tree with it’s attractive curving trunk. The leaves are oval-round, 1 to 2 […]