This beautiful hybrid Skullcap has intensely violet colored blossoms which will color up the landscape from early summer on into the fall. It thrives in the hot arid conditions of our Southwest gardens and will form a neat and tidy mound. Adding to its appeal is the fact that it is not on the menu…
Height: 2 – 3 feet Width: 2 – 3 feet Bloom color: Yellow Flowering season: Spring, Summer USDA minimum zone: 5 Cold hardiness: -20° F
The very upright, columnar tree known as the Yew Pine has lustrous green foliage, reminiscent of pine or true yew trees. It tends to be slow growing, which makes it a great choice for easy hedging or pruning into round and square shapes. Feeding young trees with a balanced fertilizer can help to encourage faster…
Height: 4 – 5 feet Width: 3 – 5 feet Bloom color: Copper Brown to Tan Flowering season: Late Summer, Fall USDA minimum zone: 5 Cold hardiness: -10° F
Height: to 40 feet (with support) Width: to 40 feet (with support) Bloom color: Yellow Flowering season: Summer, Fall USDA minimum zone: 4 Cold hardiness: -20° F
This stately beauty lends a distinctly romantic, old-world charm to gardens wherever it is planted, perhaps because it has been in cultivation for almost 200 years! Lady Banks rose can be grown as a ground cover or kept pruned as a hedge, but we think that it looks best when given some support and trained…
The Yellow Orchid Vine is a superb garden and landscape performer. It offers a bright-yellow, unusually shaped, orchid-like flower sporadically throughout the warm season, but heaviest in the spring and fall. Unique flowers then morph into oddly shaped seedpods, which bear an uncanny resemblance to a butterfly. With support such as a trellis or fence,…
Yellow bird of paradise is a somewhat confusing common name for this plant because its flowers are actually yellow with prominent, bright red stamens emerging from their centers. The nectar produced by these distinctive flowers is a hummingbird and butterfly favorite, so you can expect a long season of happy activity because blooms appear from…
Height: 2 – 3 feet Width: 4 – 5 feet Bloom color: Yellow Flowering season: Summer USDA minimum zone: 8 Cold hardiness: 15° F