Bottlebrush

Full sun; a large, evergreen shrub with fragrant leaves. Blooms on new growth, with bright red, fine-textured puff flowers that bloom during warm weather.\n\nVarious species are available in the landscape […]

Flame Acanthus

Sun or partial shade. A deciduous woody perennial, with thin leaflets on rangy stems. The orange tubeflowers are made-to-order for hummingbirds, butterflies and bees; they festoon the branches like tiny […]

Firespike

Shade/part shade. Firespike is a dieback perennial, with big glossy foliage that freezes back to the ground every winter. (Some gardeners suggest digging them up and bringing them inside as […]

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 […]

Green Cenizo

Full sun (in shade, cenizo tends to grow leggy.) Evergreen, with smooth, dusty-green leaves that contrast with the typical silverleaf cenizo. Lavender-colored flowers appear sporadically during hot humid weather.\n\nGreen Cloud […]

Fragrant Cenizo

Sun. Evergreen, with striking moon-white foliage and deep purple flowers. A somewhat smaller, rangier, more delicate xeric relative of our native cenizo; it makes a nice (and extremely fragrant) accent […]

Cenizo

Full sun (any shade makes it grow leggy.) Cenizo is evergreen, with silvery foliage covered with tiny dusty hairs. Sweet-scented pink flowers appear briefly after rain events in summer and […]

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 […]