Used often as a groundcover or an edging plant, liriope is popular for good reason. It stays green year-round in many climates, produces pretty blue or white flowers, and is about as tough a plant as you’ll hope to meet. Its dense tufts of almost-evergreen, broadly grassy leaves are often striped. Stiff stems bear tight […]
Also called fan flower, the abundant blooms of Scaevola are borne along fleshy deep green stems. This Australian native is heat- and drought-tolerant so it’s a good plant to endure in the heat of the summer. The trailing and cascading habit makes them a natural choice for mixed containers and hanging baskets.
A garden favorite for their brightly-colored flowers, marigolds are also easy to grow and care for. These heat-loving annuals last the entire growing season, blooming away until frost. Along with their ornamental attributes, marigolds are also edible and can be used to make a natural dye.
Lobularia is a wonderful cool-season annual that has been a long-time favorite because of its dainty blossoms on tidy mounds of foliage. These plants make excellent landscape edging plants in the garden and even in containers. Plant them in masses to create an abundance of its light honey fragrance. Lobularia also will draw all sorts
Veronica graces the garden with spires of flowers that bloom spring through fall. Veronica come in beautiful shades of blue, pink, purple, and white. Veronica is a flower that does great in full sun and is low maintenance. Plant this anywhere you need a bunch of showy blooms for the growing season. Depending on the
These wonderful plants are blooming machines, which you can think of as essentially the tropical equivalent of the daylily. Agapanthus is a low-maintenance perennial that produces colorful clusters of blue or white trumpet-shape flowers in summer and fall. Agapanthus has strappy, green leaves add texture to beds, borders, and containers, too.
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A truly versatile perennial grass, bluenote grass has an eye-catching blue hue that lasts all year. With its clump-forming habit, bluenote grass forms uniform balls of foliage topped with feathery straw bloom stalks in the summer. It can be used as an accent plant, in mass plantings, containers, and crevices. Bluenote grass is also very
Strobilantes is one of the most beautiful foliage plants that you will ever see in a garden. From a distance, its leaves are a brilliant deep purple. The deep purple leaves are outlined with blue green edging and veinage. The entire topside of the leaves have an iridescent metallic-silver sheen and are highly-textured. The combination
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Caladiums combine colorful arrowhead-shape leaves with easy growing requirements to star in containers and shade gardens from early summer until frost. Plant them in part shade or where they will receive filtered sun; bright sun can scorch their leaves. Pair caladiums with ferns, hostas, and other shade perennials in the landscape. They thrive in containers
These long-blooming perennials have long been prized for their old-fashioned charm and versatility. Plant this beauty in the full sun and enjoy its beauty during the growing season. Their ability to bloom from spring until frost makes them a must in any garden. Because their overall habit is fairly short, Scabiosa flowers can work well