Firecracker Plant

Full to morning sun or partial shade. A fine-textured, sagelike perennial with showy cascades of slender, bell-shaped red flowers. (Yellowish cultivars are available.) Blooms appear from spring through first frost.\n\nThe […]

Firebush

Sun or partial shade. A heat- and sun-loving rounded shrub that grows larger each summer, reaching up to five feet in diameter. Small, red tubular flowers attract hummingbirds.\n\nIn winter, firebush […]

Bougainvillea

Full sun. Deciduous. A large, thorny tropical vine with a shrub-like habit, admired for the spectacular red, purple, and fuchsia bracts around its white flowers. With its abundant thorns, it […]

Zinnia

Full hot sun; an annual with dahlia-like flowers in shades of yellow, orange, pink and white especially in early summer. Mildew affects many zinnias; ‘Dreamland’ is considered somewhat resistant, but […]

Fairy Duster

Full scorching summer sun; semi-evergreen in warm winters (below 20-25 degrees it will die back to the roots.) A dense, woody shrub with velvety fernlike leaves and profuse red puff […]

Esperanza

Full scorching summer sun (esperanza won’t bloom as well in shade). Few flowering shrubs can outperform esperanza; clusters of yellow, orange, or red trumpet flowers barrel all the way through […]

Eastern Gamagrass

Full sun/part shade; a large nearly evergreen bunchgrass with very ornamental purple and orange flower spikes. It provides exceptional browse for livestock but like other native bunchgrasses it can easily […]

Daylily

Partial sun; many varieties are evergreen, with long strap-like leaves. Flowers on bare scapes from spring to early summer, in a wide variety of intricate shapes and pastel colors resembling […]

Yarrow

Sun/partial shade; a perennial herb with fine, feathery, fern-like foliage. Flowers in late spring and early summer in a variety of colors. Each plant may spread up to 3 feet. […]

Vinca ‘Cora’

Full sun; annual, with prolific summer blooms in shades of pink, rose and white about the size of a quarter. Best planted in early summer so as not to prolong […]