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Amaryllis: Amaryllis add a tropical look to your home and provide some much needed winter color besides gray and dirty snow white.
Angel Trumpets: For the night garden, Daturas and Brugmansias are a necessity. These beautiful fragrant plants, commonly known as Angel's Trumpet open up after dark and remain open until the sunlight hits them the next morning.
Bat Flower: Tacca chantrieri, or Bat Flower, is a dramatic and exotic plant native to the jungle regions of Southeast Asia. When growing the Bat Flower it is important to keep in mind that you’re trying to recreate the jungle‐like environment in which it thrives.
Begonias: The begonia group is one of the great groups of cultivated ornamental plants. Very many species have been introduced, and there are numberless hybrids and variations. Because of the great numbers of interesting forms, begonias have appealed strongly to collectors.
Bleeding Hearts: Native to Japan, Bleeding Hearts are excellent perennial for the shade garden and they are very attractive with their light transparent green colour, deeply divided and fern like foliage and blooms are borne on arching flower stems above the foliage.
Brunnera: This shade‐loving perennial ground cover blooms in early spring as its leaves emerge. The sky‐blue blooms appear in a ground‐hugging spray and resemble forget‐me‐nots. After bloom, the roughly textured, dark‐green leaves grow larger, providing bold texture in the shade garden.
Butterfly Bush: Butterfly bush, Buddleia davidii, attracts clouds of butterflies but is also just a great garden plant. They are known for their long arching spikes of summer blooming fragrant flowers in white, pink, lavender and purple.
Caladiums: Some people know Caladiums as a Houseplant. Others recognize Caladiums as a colorful, leafy plant that brightens up the shady areas of their yard. However you recognize them, these plants are popular among home gardeners indoors or out.
Calandiva: Kalanchoe blossfeldiana has been a standard indoor flowering potted plant in the United States for many years. Unlike the poinsettia, orchid and chrysanthemum, kalanchoe has not achieved the same consumer popularity as these other indoor plants.
Canna: Home owners, who grow Canna plants, do so for two big reasons. First, these plants have bright and attractive foliage. Second, they have colorful gladiolus‐like flowers.
Clematis: Clematis like to be planted in fertile, cool, moist soil in full sun, spaced 24‐36" apart. Keep the soil light and evenly moist ‐ clematis prefer an even moisture level ‐ not too wet or too dry. It needs to have its roots shaded. Do this by planting annuals or shallow‐rooted perennials nearby.
Crocosmia: Crocosmia are a popular and attractive flowering bulb. Native to South Africa, Crocosmia are members of the Iris family. They are easy to grow. The plants grow two to four feet tall in a season.
Daffodils: Is a daffodil the same as a jonquil? It is if you live in the South. That’s the name southerners give to anything that grows in spring and has a trumpet of some sort. Others call that same type of flower a narcissus, no matter that it really is.
Dahlias: Dahlias are the unsurpassed darlings of the summer garden. Their spectacular color and exotic shapes make them stand out in a border or bed. Their hardiness and low maintenance make them a favorite with gardeners all over the country.
Daylilies: There are three types of Daylilies and they can have different zone requirement.
Egret Flower: Habenaria radiate, or egret flowers, are fussy, but well worth the trouble when you see these beautiful, birdlike flowers. This plant is indigenous to Japan where they grow in bogs.
Elephant Ears: Elephant Ear plants are a big, leafy member of the Caladium family. We're talkin’ big leaves, as big as an elephant's ear. And, the colorful leaves have a shape resembling an elephant's ear, too.
Metasequoia (Dinosaur Tree): Metasequoia glyptostroboides, also known as Dawn Redwood or Dinosaur Tree, is native to China. Paleobotanists (scientists who study ancient and extinct plantlife) believed this plant was extinct; the only evidence ever found of the plant were fossils from the time of the dinosaurs.