Plant Profile: Common Bermuda Grass (Cynodon dactylon)
Common Bermuda grass is a fine textured warm-season grass that can be a tough attractive turf or a wretched weed depending on where it is growing. It spreads quickly by…
Common Bermuda grass is a fine textured warm-season grass that can be a tough attractive turf or a wretched weed depending on where it is growing. It spreads quickly by…
Centipede grass is a light green warm-season grass with medium texture and can make a dense lawn. It spreads by stolons and has shallow roots so is not tolerant of…
Introduced in 1957, ‘Black Beauty’ was the first Orienpet hybrid, and continues to be popular today. Orienpet lilies are the result of interspecific crosses between Oriental Hybrid and Chinese Trumpet…
Sedums tend to be easy to grow, good looking plants that are attractive all season and ‘Thundercloud’ is no exception. It forms a compact mound of blue-green scalloped leaves early…
Popular in Britain but little known in the US, greater masterwort is a stoloniferous herbaceous perennial native to central and eastern Europe where it grows in mountain meadows, grasslands, woodland…
Growing from a tuft of basal leaves, a slender shoot bears clusters of nodding magenta flowers with reflexed petals around a dark column of stamens and style. A native of…
The large plumes of ‘Red Head’ fountain grass are 8-10” long and 3” wide. Pink when they first appear, the plumes mature to smoky purple. They appear in mid- to…
The lovely light blue flowers create a magic moment in late spring for a couple of weeks when the foliage takes over and provides the main interest. The leaves are…
‘Pink Chablis’ spotted deadnettle makes a pleasant ground cover for a shady spot with its white variegated leaves and pink flowers. Its long blooming season from late spring to mid-summer…
If you are familiar with this plant you either live in the northwest United States or know it from the floral trade. A member of the heather family salal is…