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 ArticleViola Angel Amber Kiss
A bit quirky but totally cute, the ruffled, often semidouble flowers of Viola Angel Amber Kiss are very un-viola-like. Ruddy orange with a yellow center and rose-colored reverse on the wings. Each...
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 ArticleKale 'Crane Red'
One of the most-striking and long-lasting cut flowers isn’t even a flower. The foliage of ‘Crane Red’ ornamental kale forms a tight cluster, rose veined with a rosy-purple center, at the end of a long,...
View ArticleOsmocote® Presents: Rudbeckia'Radiance'
A black-eyed Susan amped to the max. Heads of narrow, quilled golden petals look like a cheerleader’s pom-pom. Blooms summer through fall, 18 inches tall. Hardy to Zone 5a.read more
View ArticleViola Sorbet Marina Babyface
Lilac blue with a cream face, deep-purple blotch and clutch of whiskers, Viola Sorbet Marina Babyface is sweet beyond belief, and fragrant too. Forms a mound 6 inches high and up to 10 inches across;...
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 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 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 ArticleRose-Scented Geraniums
Gallery Page Layout: Gallery A The rose-scented geranium is lovely smelling plant and we talk about how to grow it in the winter and in the summer (indoors and out), how to propagate cuttings into new...
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 ArticleOsmocote® Presents: Capsicum annuum'Medusa'
Hot plus cool equals a jazzy ornamental pepper that’s not pungent, so it’s safe to grow around kids. Indoors it makes a wild “hairdo,” spring through Christmas, of twisty narrow peppers in ivory,...
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
Gallery Page Layout: Gallery A In Magazine Issue: March 2012
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...
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