Laurel Viburnum

Sun or shade. Evergreen, with ovate leaves and dense cymes of pink or white flowers in spring. \n\n’Spring Bouquet’ is a widely available cultivar. On its own it may grow […]

Wild Vervain

Prefers sunny spots with well-drained soil. Flowers are very tiny and this plant is easily overlooked if growing with other wildflowers. Tread lightly. Can be transplanted and grown in a […]

Mutabilis Rose

Sun; semi-evergreen. Mutabilis is a terrific landscape and shrub rose. Its vigorous habit and size can hide any other imperfections. Very simple \”butterfly\” flowers appear throughout the year in yellow, […]

Climbing Cecile Brunner Rose

Full sun. Evergreen. Called the Sweetheart Rose because of its small, picture-perfect flower buds. This climbing polyantha is a nearly thornless repeat bloomer.

Annual Phlox

Sun or partial shade. Sow seeds in late summer or fall. Phlox is a much-branched, sticky-glandular plant with bright red, pink, or white flowers in tight clusters at the ends […]

Crinum Lily

Bright light; for a better-looking plant, protect from western summer sun. Crinum is a tropical evergreen, with big, sloppy mounds of cascading succulent foliage and prominent red-white-and pink striped lily […]

Gray Leaf Cotoneaster

Full sun or partial shade. Dull, tiny evergreen leaves resembling cenizo; white flowers in spring; reddish autumn fruits which may be spread by birds.\n\nDurable and hardy, cotoneaster tolerates poor and […]

Comfrey

Partial sun. Long-lived and enduring. An herbaceous perennial with a tidy mound of foliage and big, feltlike borage leaves. Like few other garden plants, comfrey’s is considered nearly indestructible once […]

Chitalpa

Full sun. Deciduous, thornless and fast-growing, with a low, spreading canopy and pale pink trumpet flowers from spring through fall. It provides terrific shade for old-fashioned garden plants (and gardeners). […]

Chisme

Chisme (Spanish for gossip) spreads like gossip from seed, though easily removed. The low growing annual fills in nicely around other larger plants and displays attractive fuchsia flowers in the […]