Echeveria'Perle von Nürnberg'
For unusual muted shades, landscape designer Stephen Suzman likes to use Echeveria‘Afterglow’ (powdery pinkish lavender) and E.‘Perle von Nürnberg’, pictured (grayish brown with a pinkish mauve tinge)....
View ArticleSedum x rubrotinctum
Often called pork and beans or jellybean plant, Sedum x rubrotinctum is a 6- to 8-inch low-mounding groundcover with fat little leaves that go from bright green to red. Suzman calls it “very easy and...
View ArticleIris ensata'Ruffled Dimitry'
This new Japanese water iris has a poetic grace, with large flowers of lavender falls veined in violet and a dark-purple central clutch of “petaloids.” Adds a lovely accent to summer water gardens when...
View ArticleSpotted Dead Nettle 'Anne Greenaway'
A vibrant groundcover for the shade garden, Lamium maculatum‘Anne Greenaway’ forms a 6- to 8-inch-tall mass of scallop-edged variegated leaves that glitter with chartreuse, silver and mint green....
View ArticleSenecio mandraliscae
Landscape designer Stephen Suzman likes the groundcover speciesSenecio mandraliscaefor its fast growth and distinctive chalky-blue fleshy foliage. A native of South Africa, it grows 12 to 18 inches...
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Plant Lust: Magnolias
In the super-snowy days of January and February, we're featuring pages from the many catalogs that are arriving in our office daily. There's really nothing better than catalog reading—it's like window...
View ArticleAn Interview with Corpse Flower Lois
Not since the likes of Audrey II in Little Shop of Horrors has there been a diva like Lois the Corpse Flower, in Houston.read more
View ArticleWitch Hazel
Among the plant world's many miracles, witch hazel may be the most restorative. In colder parts of the country, it is one of the only big plants to bloom during the low-light days when gardeners feel...
View ArticleOrder Peonies Now!
Peonies are the grandes dames of the garden: stately, long lasting, and often copiously perfumed. They are great massed or in a mixed ornamental bed; and as cut flowers, lush single blooms, or full...
View ArticleA Passion for Pelargoniums
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View ArticleFine Vine: Purple Bell Vine
The Rhodochiton atrosanguineum, or Purple Bell vine, a native of southwestern Mexico, is hardy to zone 9 and offers much to covet. Fast-growing, its glossy, heart-shape leaves contrast with cheery...
View ArticleAgastache Anise Hyssop
With commentary by Oehme, van Sweden principal Eric Groft. A long bloomer, from midsummer through September, 2- to 3-foot Agastache‘Black Adder’ “has the always-pleasant lavender-purple color that goes...
View ArticlePennisetum alopecuroides Fountain Grass
With commentary by Oehme, van Sweden principal Eric Groft. Named for its graceful clumps of narrow foliage and nodding bottlebrush-like flowers, Pennisetum alopecuroides is “a true four-season grass...
View ArticleClematis terniflora Sweet Autumn Clematis
With commentary by Oehme, van Sweden principal Eric Groft. With its ample sprays of small, fragrant white blossoms and lustrous dark-green foliage, Clematis terniflora (also called virgin’s bower) is...
View ArticleSansevieria cylindrica
Making its common name particularly apropos, this snake plant has long, narrow, cylindrical leaves arranged in dramatic Mohawk fans. A collector’s form of an old-fashioned plant and a must-have for...
View ArticlePanicum virgatum Switchgrass
With commentary by Oehme, van Sweden principal Eric Groft.A cultivar of a native switchgrass that is perfect for wet conditions and full sun, Panicum virgatum‘Warrior’ has airy heads of reddish flowers...
View ArticlePlant Lust: Pig Butt Arum
This post might be better titled Plant Repulsion, rather than Plant Lust, but our featured plant is still pretty awesome.read more
View ArticleI Love This Plant: Sharkskin Agave
This sharkskin agave was photographed at the Ruth Bancroft Garden, a public garden in Walnut Creek, California, which has a diverse collection of agaves and other drought-tolerant plants. Photo: Barb...
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