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 […]

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 […]

Species in the grass family (Poaceae)have narrow grasslike foliage, with leaf veins typically parallel to one another, and the leaf margins are most often smooth. With a few exceptions, such as bamboo, most grasses are herbaceous, meaning they do not […]

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 […]

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. […]

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 […]

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 […]

The cultivar ‘Argenteovariegata’ is a low- growing, mat-forming, spreading perennial with soft, medium-green leaves and silvery-white margins. It bears single, cross-shaped, pinkish-mauve blooms held in sparsely-flowered racemes, which are profusely borne in spring. Grows to 2 inches tall and spreads […]

This shade-loving ground cover has very thin segments that constitute the pinnae. Prefers full or filtered shade. Can handle some early morning sun. Enjoys consistently moist soil. Add organic matter to soil. Remove damaged fronds and foliage to ground to […]

A spherical cactus with 8 sharp ribs and 2 to 4 inch spines. It has yellow flowers, 3 inches across. Rounded habit in youth, developing into a columnar cactus with age. Requires sunny location, in winter temperatures around 50F. In […]