Our featured perennial is the Westringia Wynyabbi Gem! This hybrid between the coastal Westringia fruticose and the inland growing Westringia eremicola is a fast growing upright dense growing shrub that can reach 6-8 feet tall by 6 feet wide with slender gray-green 1 inch long leaves that radiate...
The crassula hobbit has tubular and pipe-shaped leaves that have reddish tips. It's a slow-growing succulent that will reach about 3 feet at maturity, with an even wider spread. Place the hobbit plant where it will be exposed to a minimum of four hours of bright sunlight...
Our featured grass this month is the Juncus patens Elk Blue. An upright fine-textured evergreen grass like plant that forms dense clumps from short rhizomes with narrow rounded blue-gray leafless stems that grow to a height of 18 - 24 inches, though they can reach 30 inches with regular...
Our featured succulent this month is the Echeveria Lipstick. This rosette-forming succulent forms clumps of individual plants that are around 6" tall by 8 to 12" wide with lime-green leaves and vivid red-pink edges. The red flowers have a yellow tip and bloom in the spring through early...
Our featured plant this month is a TREE! The Palo Verde is a fast growing, thornless tree with an upright habit. It has small bright green compound leaves and smooth lime green bark. Masses of large, bright yellow flowers bloom from March through May with sporadic flowering during the summer...
Our featured grass the month is the Chondropetalum Cape Rush. This South African plant forms dense tufted clumps from which arise 2-3 foot tall dark green unbranched stems. The dark brown sheaths at the joints drop off in summer leaving a dark band. Late in the season the stems arch...
Our featured grass this month is the Carex elata Aurea. Carex elata is a dense, clump-forming sedge growing to 1 - 2 1/2' tall. Grass-like, sharply keeled, dark green leaves are up to 30" long. The Carex elata is easily grown in medium to wet soil in full sun to part shade. This species...
Our featured succulent this month is the Echeveria nodulosa. This succulent has 1-2 foot long branched stems that lie over horizontally or arch slightly upward bearing 5" wide rosettes of absinthe-green, pointed leaves that are slightly concaved. They are vividly marked with red on the margins...
The Aeonium Jolly Green is our featured succulent this month. This succulent spreads horizontally, staying under 1 foot tall with each stem ending in tight 8 to 10 inch wide green rosettes. The summer flowers are pale greenish yellow. Full to part sun and drought...
The vitiver grass has an upright growth habit and is a densely tufted clumping grass with stiff leaf bases that overlap. It's used world-wide for soil erosion control, stabilization of slopes and banks, wastewater and sewage treatment and even agriculture improvement. When planted along the...
The Senecio Lemon Bean Bush is an evergreen succulent bush that gets to 6 feet and wide, with a fleshy, cylindrical, finger-like, light green leaves that get up to 4" long. The flowers are a golden yellow, but the most attractive feature of this plant is the finger-like leaves pointing...
Our Cordyline Pink Passion is our featured perennial this month! It's a palm-like small tree that grows with an upright habit and with age will branch to produce several heads. This is a very showy cultivar that does well in full sun to light shade. Sweet scented white flowers bloom in...
This rosette-forming succulent forms clumps of individual plants that are around 6" tall to 8" to 12" wide. The leaves are green with vivid red-pink edges. Plant in well-drained soil in full sun in cooler coastal gardens but will also take considerable shade. Great in a garden or...
The Crassula Small Red Carpet is spreading succulent that grows 4-8" tall. Flower colors are yellow and foliage is red. It is adaptable as a houseplant, deadheading is not necessary and it is drought tolerant. Does well in containers, rock gardens or as a house...
