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,…
There are many good reasons why it is becoming increasingly difficult to encounter a landscape in Tucson that doesn’t include at least one of these lush, tropical shrubs. Mainly popular for its display of lovely, bright-white color from spring through fall, White Bougainvillea makes a terrific backdrop when trellised against a wall or fence, performs…
Trumpet Creeper is an extremely cold hardy vine that will quickly cover any structure. Cluster of six to twelve hot colored red-orange flowers cover lustrous green foliage for most of the year. Hummingbirds and orioles are particularly fond of the nectar and will travel from miles away for a drink. Strategic planting is necessary, because…
Finding an evergreen vine that will take our summer heat is hard enough, but finding one that also produces bunches of colorful, fragrant flowers is quite a find! Thankfully, we have this American native to furnish our arbors and trellises with year-round lustrous green color that is accented by purple hues in winter and clusters…
Once you smell the incredible fragrance of a star jasmine in bloom, you’re sure to want at least one growing near your patio! This woody, vining shrub is an absolute delight in late spring and early summer when clusters of sweet-smelling, snow white, star shaped flowers appear amongst its glossy, dark green foliage. It can…
This bean-relative has foliage similar to that of peas and beans, but a far more interesting and unusual blossom. Snail Vine’s flower has curled keel petals, not unlike a snail shell. Young blossoms start out a bright white, eventually darkening to a lilac shade of purple. Flowers are followed by a pea-like pod. Thin, delicate…
There are many good reasons why it is becoming increasingly difficult to encounter a landscape in Tucson that doesn’t include at least one bougainvillea. These lush, tropical shrubs are vibrantly colorful and exceptionally easy to grow. Mainly popular for its display of intense, apricot-peachy-orange color from spring through fall, ‘rainbow gold’ bougainvillea makes a terrific…
Queen’s wreath is a fast-growing, self-climbing vine with bright green, heart-shaped foliage. Light pink to hot pink blossoms appear amongst foliage in chain-like clusters throughout spring, summer, and fall; birds are especially attracted to them. Queen’s Wreath loves hot spots in the garden, including hot walls with reflected sun. This deciduous vine will happily grow…