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Ipomoea alba - Moonflower, Moon Vine, Giant White Moonflower

Helianthus annuus 'Italian White' - Sunflower

Santolina chamaecyparissus - Cotton Lavender (946 readers)

Contributed by amazon 09.07 2007 on 10:10:12 Topic: Plants / Perennials Match on Article's text

Lavender Cotton or Gray Santolina Santolina chamaecyparissus tomentosa Family: Asteraceae Softer yellow colored flowers and shorter than the normal species. With silver-gray colored, compact foliage. Very drought tolerant, grow in full sun in well draining soils, in zone 9 will take some shade. Evergreen shrubby plants with balls of yellow flowers, growing 8 inches tall. An attractive formal looking plant. Space 12 inches apart. Use as a permanent contrast in mixed borders, or edging in herb gar ...

Perovskia atriplicifolia 'Little Spire' - Russian Sage (4450 readers)

Contributed by amazon 09.11 2007 on 09:13:32 Topic: Plants / Perennials Match on Article's text

An airy, upward sweeping, deep-violet haze is combined with the herbal aroma of the finely dissected gray-green foliage. The slender, light-seeking panicles remain in flower for up to 15 weeks. PPA Perennial Plant of the Year 1995. ...

Festuca glauca - Blue Fescue Grass (2413 readers)

Contributed by amazon 04.06 2007 on 09:20:44 Topic: Plants / Grass, Grasses Match on Article's text

Fescue develops deeper foliage color when grown in full sun, but it can tolerate partial shade, and should be grown in part shade in areas with hot summers It is drought tolerant, and grows best in poor, sandy, well drained soils. It cannot tolerate heavy, wet soils or constant high humidity. Blue fescue usually is grown as a border or edging plant. Its fine texture and neat, compact shape make it well suited to line a path or mark the front of a perennial border. ...

Quercus agrifolia - Coast Live Oak (708 readers)

Contributed by amazon 17.05 2007 on 22:01:09 Topic: Plants / Deciduous Trees Match on Article's text

Beautiful boldly spreading branches form an attractive rounded head with holly like dark green leaves. Interesting rough, dark gray bark. An excellent selection for a shade tree. Evergreen. Full sun. Moderate grower to 50 to 70 feet tall with wider spread. ...

Viburnum acerifolium - Maple-Leaf Viburnum, Possumhaw, Dockmackie (813 readers)

Contributed by amazon 30.05 2007 on 09:24:37 Topic: Plants / Deciduous Shrubs Match on Article's text

This shrub attracts cardinals, crested fly-catchers, robins, gray-cheeked thrushes, cedar waxwings and more with red fruits that ripen to purple. Cream-colored lace-like bloom clusters appear in summer. Distinctive leaves turn red in fall. Great as a hedge or screen Grows 4-6 tall with a similar spread. Potted plant. Zones 3-8. ...

Ginkgo biloba - Maidenhair Tree (2080 readers)

Contributed by amazon 28.05 2007 on 09:53:25 Topic: Plants / Conifers Match on Article's text

Unusually shaped foliage accents gray-brown bark. Grows slowly to a mature height of 40-70 ft. with massive branches and a 25-40 ft. spread. Ginkgo Biloba withstands city pollution and is rarely bothered by pests or disease. ...

Picea pungens - Colorado Blue Spruce (1678 readers)

Contributed by amazon 28.05 2007 on 10:27:45 Topic: Plants / Conifers Match on Article's text

One of the advantages of the Colorado Blue Spruce is its large hardiness area. This coniferous tree, which is characterized by its gray-blue needle-like leaves, will thrive in every part of the contiguous United States. And it makes an excellent landscape accent, as it is a very full tree and can block unpleasant sights like road traffic. ...

Dryopteris marginalis - Leather Wood Fern (500 readers)

Contributed by amazon 12.02 2008 on 10:45:30 Topic: Plants / Ferns Match on Article's text

Marginal shield fern is an evergreen fern, which grows as a non-spreading, vase-shaped clump with handsome gray-green, leathery fronds. The evergreen fronds provide good interest in the winter landscape Shade in consistantly moist soil. For the border or woodland garden. ...

Perovskia atriplicifolia - Russian Sage (914 readers)

Contributed by amazon 08.06 2007 on 06:45:25 Topic: Plants / Perennials Match on Article's text

Russian Sage, actually a native of Pakistan,is one of the great garden plants of all time. This semiwoody perennial carries a cloud of small blue flowers on widely arching stems that grow 3-4ft tall and as wide. The effect is a charming, airy haze of soft blue against silvery gray, pungently aromatic foliage. ...

Geranium cinereum 'Ballerina' - Hardy Geranium (1096 readers)

Contributed by amazon 27.03 2008 on 17:31:50 Topic: Plants / Perennials Match on Article's text

Hardy Geranium cinereum Ballerina Family: Geraniaceae Origin: The species is native to the central Pyrenees. Award-winning compact variety with slightly ruffled, cupped flowers. The iced-pink, heart-shaped petals are intricately patterned with very dark-maroon veining which converges into an eye. Small gray-green foliage is full and deeply-lobed, curling a little. ...

Hebes (1031 readers)

Contributed by amazon 02.04 2007 on 10:44:14 Topic: Other / Books Match on Article's text

A Guide to Species, Hybrids and Allied Genera | The genus Hebe is a treasure trove of more than 100 species and subspecies of medium-sized to dwarf evergreen shrubs with outstanding ornamental features, both of flower and leaf. Native to New Zealand, these plants are grown in Australia, the western United States, the United Kingdom, and continental Europe. ...

Ficus carica 'Italian Honey' - Fig (2269 readers)

Contributed by amazon 06.06 2007 on 08:36:53 Topic: Plants / Evergreen Shrubs Match on Article's text

The fig is a picturesque tropical-looking tree or shrub with a dramatic spreading habit. The breadth is often wider than the height of 15-30. The bark is smooth and silvery gray and the deciduous leaves are 3 or 5-lobed and 4-10 long. There are many cultivars available for the home landscape. ...

Clematis paniculata - Clematis Sweet Autumn (818 readers)

Contributed by amazon 08.07 2007 on 10:18:30 Topic: Plants / Climber Plants Match on Article's text

The beautiful sweet autumn clematis is a vigorous semievergreen (or deciduous) vine than can climb up to 30 feet. The compound leaves are glossy and deep green. The star shaped white flowers are about an inch and a quarter across and sweetly fragrant. They are borne in numerous branching panicles from late summer through autumn. Vines can be so laden with billowy masses of white flowers that they look like theyre covered with snow! The seed heads are pretty, too, with their silvery-gray featherl ...

Laurus nobilis - Sweet Bay Laurel (1298 readers)

Contributed by amazon 30.06 2007 on 10:33:57 Topic: Plants / Evergreen Shrubs Match on Article's text

Bay laurel is a pyramid-shaped tree or large shrub with aromatic, evergreen leaves and shiny gray bark. It can reach 60 in height in its native range, but generally is much smaller (3-10 tall) in culture. The leaves are elliptic, 3-4 long, rather thick and leathery, and shiny dark green. Clusters of small yellow flowers are produced in spring, followed, on the female plants, by shiny black or purple berries about 1/2 long. ...

Jubaea chilensis - Chilean Wine Palm (955 readers)

Contributed by amazon 14.08 2007 on 08:11:19 Topic: Plants / Other Match on Article's text

Jubaea chilensis; Family: Palmae/Arecaceae (palm family); Common Names: Chilean wine palm, coquito palm, honey palm. This Incredible Hulk of the palm world, Jubaea chilensis, dominates the landscape with his thick muscular trunk. The straight gray trunks can grow to over 3 ft (0.9 m) in diameter and soar to heights of 80 ft (24.4 m). In older specimens, the trunk typically constricts near the top to form the brutes shoulders upon which rest a proportionally small head that is composed of densely ...

Caryopteris x clandonensis 'Longwood Blue' - Blue Spirea (1073 readers)

Contributed by amazon 06.06 2007 on 08:57:17 Topic: Plants / Perennials Match on Article's text

Blue Mist Caryopteris (also commonly called blue spirea or bluebeard) is a low-mounded, deciduous shrub that is valued for its aromatic foliage and late summer flowers which are said to resemble clouds of blue smoke or mist. The plants typically produce about 18-30 inches of growth per year, so total shrub height (usually from 2-3) depends in large part upon the extent of winter dieback and/or the annual spring pruning. Longwood blue is a taller cultivar which may reach a height of 4. It feature ...