ABUTILON megapotamicum
(a-BEW-ti-lon) (meg-a-pot-AM-ih-kum) | ABUTME3 |
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| Common Name: Trailing Abutilon |
| Description: Small to medium, woody shrub with fine textured, leafy, pendulous branches. Attractive and colorful hanging flowers with yellow petals surrounded by red calyces all season. Good in hanging baskets and combos. |
| Zone: 9 |
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ABUTILON pictum 'Thompsonii'
(a-BEW-ti-lon) (PIK-tum) | ABUTTH3 |
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| Description: Light orange flowers; large, maple-shaped leaves speckled with yellow. Great patio plants; fine indoors with good light. |
| Zone: 8 |
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ACALYPHA repens
(ak-ah-LY-fah) (RE-penz) | ACALRE4 |
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| Common Name: Trailing Chenille Plant, Strawberry Firetails |
| Description: Bright red, fuzzy, dangling, 2-4" catkins adorn this unique trailer. |
| Zone: 11 |
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ACALYPHA wilkesiana
(ak-ah-LY-fah) (wilks-ee-AY-na) | ACALWI4 |
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| Common Name: Copperleaf |
| Description: Glossy, bronzy-green leaves mottled with shades of red, crimson, and/or purple. Shrub. |
| Zone: 10 |
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ACALYPHA wilkesiana 'Ceylon'
(ak-ah-LY-fah) (wilks-ee-AY-na) | ACALCE4 |
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| Description: Distinctly curled and twisted, glossy, coppery leaves edged in pink. A choice selection with favorable conditions. |
| Zone: 10 |
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ACALYPHA wilkesiana 'Kona Gold'
(ak-ah-LY-fah) (wilks-ee-AY-na) | ACALKG4 |
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| Description: Leaves splashed with bright gold make this an exciting selection for containers. Shrub. |
| Zone: 10 |
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AEONIUM arboreum atropurpureum
(ay-OH-nee-um) (ar-BOR-ee-um) | AEONAA4 |
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| Description: Dense, flat rosettes of reddish-bronze leaves on tall stems. Excellent xeric succulent for troughs, rock garden, or containers either indoors or out. |
| Zone: 9 |
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AEONIUM haworthii
(ay-OH-nee-um) (ha-WORTH-ee-eye) | AEONHA4 |
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| Common Name: Pinwheel |
| Description: In spring, creamy-yellow flower spikes emerge from the center of the bright green rosettes. |
| Zone: 9 |
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AEONIUM 'Kiwi'
(ay-OH-nee-um) | AEONKI3 |
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| Description: 'Kiwi' dazzles the garden with a kaleidoscope of pinks, oranges, and greens. Pale yellow flowers appear in summer. |
| Zone: 9 |
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AGAPANTHUS 'Headborne Hybrids'
(ag-a-PAN-thus) | AGAPHH3 |
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| Description: Hybridizing advances have produced a sequence of dense, glittering blue flower clusters to 10" across on tall stems. Blooms mid-summer through fall. |
| Zone: 7 |
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ALPINIA zerumbet 'Variegata'
(al-PIN-ee-a) (ZER-um-bet) | ALPIVA5 |
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| Common Name: Variegated Ginger |
| Description: Striking yellow stripes on dark green leaves. Fragrant, white flowers tinged purple-pink with crinkled, yellow lip with red and brown stripes. |
| Zone: 8 |
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ALTERNANTHERA bettzickiana 'Red Calico Plant'
(all-ter-NAN-ther-ah) (bet-zik-ee-AH-na) | ALTERC3 |
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| Common Name: Joseph's Coat |
| Description: Tender border plant with twisted, narrow leaves blotched cream-yellow to salmon-red. Good for edging, letters, accents, and carpet-bedding. |
| Zone: 10 |
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ALTERNANTHERA bettzickiana 'Yellow Calico Plant'
(all-ter-NAN-ther-ah) (bet-zik-ee-AH-na) | ALTEYC3 |
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| Common Name: Joseph's Coat |
| Description: Small, variegated, pale yellow and fresh green leaves for carpet-bedding. May be sheared. |
| Zone: 10 |
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ALTERNANTHERA ficoidea 'Red Threads'
(all-ter-NAN-ther-ah) (fih-KOY-dee-ah) | ALTERT3 |
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| Common Name: Joseph's Coat |
| Description: Deep burgundy, slender foliage provides excellent color contrast in the garden border or combination planters. |
| Zone: 10 |
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ALTERNANTHERA 'Party Time' PP# 14,789
(all-ter-NAN-ther-ah) | ALTEPT3 |
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| Description: Striking foliage plant with bold leaf coloration in fuchsia, cream, and parrot green. Excellent in containers or beds. |
| Zone: 10 |
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ALTERNANTHERA 'Purple Knight'
(all-ter-NAN-ther-ah) | ALTEPK3 |
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| Common Name: Joseph's Coat |
| Description: Stunning dark purple foliage on this superb introduction. These beauties are a knockout! |
| Zone: 10 |
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ALTERNANTHERA reineckii
(all-ter-NAN-ther-ah) (ri-NEK-ee-eye) | ALTERE3 |
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| Common Name: Joseph's Coat, Copperleaf |
| Description: Striking, narrow, coppery-maroon leaves form a mat with white flowers. Great contrast plant. Tolerates a wet site or shallow water. |
| Zone: 10 |
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ALYOGYNE huegelii
(al-ly-o-GY-nee) (hew-GEL-ee-eye) | ALYOHU4 |
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| Common Name: Blue Hibiscus |
| Description: Incredible, Australian shrub produces loads of large, 2", silky blue flowers all season in full sun. Gorgeous patio plant. |
| Zone: 9 |
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ANACAMPSEROS rufescens
(an-a-KAMP-se-ros) (roof-E-senz) | ANACRU3 |
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| Description: Large, delicious pink flowers and interesting reddish-dark green, succulent rosettes. A Portulaca cousin from the Drakenbergs for troughs, rock and dish gardens. |
| Zone: 9 |
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ANTHRISCUS sylvestris 'Ravenswing'
(an-THRISS-kuss) (sil-VES-tris) | ANTHRA3 |
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| Common Name: Black Chervil, Black Cow Parsley |
| Description: Stunning rosettes of deep purple, almost black, finely cut foliage the first year; this biennial explodes in a delicate nest of small, white flowers above the dark foliage the second year. Unusual, gourmet garnish; great ornamental. |
| Zone: 7 |
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APTENIA cordifolia variegata 'Crystal'
(ap-TEEN-ee-a) (kor-di-FO-lee-a) | APTECR3 |
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| Common Name: Variegated Ice Plant |
| Description: Attractive mesemb from South Africa's arid sub tropics. Creeping, hanging succulent; soft, fleshy, cream-edged leaves covered with shiny bubbles of watery fluid. Small, deep rose, Ice Plant flowers all season. For combos, troughs, rock gardens, or as skirt plant. |
| Zone: 10 |
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ARCTOTIS 'Flame'
(ark-TO-tis) | ARCTFL3 |
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| Common Name: African Daisy |
| Description: Spectacular selections that provide intense flower and foliage color all summer. Deep burnt orange flowers; silvery foliage. |
| Zone: 9 |
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ARCTOTIS 'Killerton Red'
(ark-TO-tis) | ARCTKR3 |
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| Common Name: African Daisy |
| Description: Spectacular selections that provide intense flower and foliage color all summer. Dark red flowers with black eye; silvery foliage. |
| Zone: 9 |
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ARCTOTIS x hybrida 'Wine'
(ark-TO-tis) (hy-BRID-ah) | ARCTWI3 |
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| Common Name: African Daisy |
| Description: Spectacular selections that provide intense flower and foliage color all summer. Wine-rose selection from Harlequin Hybrids. |
| Zone: 9 |
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ARISTOLOCHIA littoralis 'Elegans'
(a-ris-to-LOK-ee-a) (lit-or-AL-iss) | ARISEL5 |
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| Common Name: Dutchman's Pipe, Birthwort |
| Description: Choice selection with large, uniquely shaped, maroon flowers marbled with white. Twining climber. |
| Zone: 9 |
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ASCLEPIAS curassavica
(as-KLAY-pee-us) (kur-ah-SAV-ih-ka) | ASCLCU3 |
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| Common Name: Bloodflower |
| Description: Umbels of vivid orange-red flowers on tropical sub-shrub. Excellent cut. |
| Zone: 9 |
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ASCLEPIAS curassavica 'Silky Gold'
(as-KLAY-pee-s) (kur-ah-SAV-ih-ka) | ASCLSG3 |
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| Description: Soft golden-yellow umbels; strong-stemmed plants. Everblooming butterfly attraction. |
| Zone: 9 |
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ASPARAGUS densiflorus 'Myersii'
(ah-SPARE-ah-gus) (dens-ih-FLOOR-us) | ASPAMY3 |
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| Common Name: Foxtail Fern |
| Description: The choicest Asparagus Fern; strong, base branching, erect and arching, plumed fronds that are densely covered with clusters of needle-like, green foliage. |
| Zone: 9 |
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ASPARAGUS sprengeri
(ah-SPARE-ah-gus) (SPRENG-er-eye) | ASPASP3 |
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| Common Name: Emerald Fern |
| Description: Long stems of fine foliage; small, white-pinkish flowers in summer. Great companion plant for baskets and containers indoors and out. |
| Zone: 9 |
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BACOPA 'Goldsport'
(ba-KO-pa) | BACOGS3 |
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| Description: White flowers over golden foliage for ground cover, hanging baskets, and mixed containers. |
| Zone: 9 |
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