Growing Conditions

As the common name suggests, Hesperaloe parviflora is a yucca-like evergreen perennial succulent. It offers an exotic, desert look, evergreen leaves, pink-red or red flowers in the summer, and is a true hummingbird magnet. It is a deer and...

Long blooming perennial for dry soil. Regular clumps, hairy stems and daisy-like flowers with many petals and a sage-like scent. The flowers are ¾ to 1½ inches across and are bright yellow. Offers very good pollinator support and provides...

Heavy and long-blooming cultivar with a two-toned look due to the unique feature of non-dropping spent flowers. Pink flowers fade to deeper rose-red. Flowers from June till frost. Heucher villosa hybrid = increased heat and humidity tolerance, often...

Coral bell with unique shiny dark purple to almost black leaves and pink speckles that enlarge a bit with season and gain some pink-cream hue. Vigorous and healthy variety. It's recommended to divide every 3-4 years to encourage strong growth. Blooming...

Coral Bell with metalic-silver leaves that fade to greenish-silver during summer heat. Outstanding floral display of large cream-white flowers. 'Stailnless Steel' gained 3.6 points out of 5 in Mt. Cuba trials. 10" tall (32" with flowers) x 26" wide...

'Dale's Strain' is a seed strain selected for the lovely silver marbling pattern and reddish veins on the leaves. It's a surprisingly stable-colored cultivar. The flowers are small, whitish and insignificant, blooming in mid to late summer. The...

Oldie, but oldie cultivar ‘Palace Purple’ with purple-brown-red leaves and insignificant pale flowers. It scored quite well at Mt. Cuba Center’s Heuchera trial, gaining 3.6 starts out of 5!  It didn't place higher mostly only due...

Heuchera richardsonii is a very nice clump-forming coral bells with attractive leaves. Small greenish-white flowers rise above the green mounds of leaves in mid to late summer. This is a quite reliable perennial with a dense,...

How does one choose the right coral bells from the never-ending list of cultivars? It can be difficult, but some Heucheras are better than others, and this is an exceptional selection. ‘Bronze Wave’ did very well at Mt. Cuba Center’s...

This robust coral bells is an excellent groundcover, with light green leaves and whitish flowers. It forms clumps of larger, hairy, evergreen or partially evergreen, light green/chartreuse colored leaves, and flowers in late summer through early fall...

'Berry Awesome' offers large 7-8" dinner plate (flat) flowers and excellent growing habit = tidy and well-rounded shape with blooms from the top to the bottom part. Long blooming period. Attracts hummingbirds and some bees. Blooming Time: July to...

Break-through, herbaceous hibiscus hybrid with blue-ish 8" flowers with a red eye. Exotic perennial with compact growth, more narrow and dissected leaves, flowers stay in the upper part of the plant. First "blue" selection on the market - the lilac-blue...

Large 6-8" magenta red flowers are flat, with a small darker red halo, overlapping petals and deeply impressed veins. Foliage is dark olive green leaves with copper highlights, the newest leaves emerging coppery purple. Flowers are produced from the top...

'Spinderella' offers 8" white flowers, with medium pink accented edges and a dark red eye; and an excellent growing habit = tidy, dense, and well-rounded habit with blooms from the top to the bottom part. Long blooming period. Attracts hummingbirds and...

If you need a big plant for a moist or wet spot in full sun in the warm south, Scarlet Rose Mallow may be perfect for you. If you live in a colder area and have a garden pond, don’t worry - we were growing this beauty in our pond in the cold 5a...

A rare and endemic species of hibiscus, this Rosemallow is native to regularly-flooded lowland areas near the Neches, Angelina and Trinity rivers in eastern Texas. Endangered in nature and rare in cultivation, it's a true gem worth saving and...

Late blooming native perennial, with big pink or white flowers (usually 4” across). Three-lobed green are silver underneath. Bushy clumps look like little shrubs.Can be grown in average garden soil, if it doesn't tend to dry out too much. Attracts...

Native woodland perennial with many herbal properties. Smaller clumps, 0.75' tall x 0.75'-1' wide, leaves emerge from yellow tuber, single flower without petals sits right above each leaf. Flowers in April/May, followed by attractive red berries...