This medium size deciduous coarse shrub has simple leaves 6-8 inches long and of a blueish color. This suckering shrub is related to Daphne and Dirca.  It produces clusters of interesting clusters of tubular yellow fl...

This ginger relative produces attractive foliage from rhizomes. Here it can stay under 2 feet but it gets much larger in tropics where it is grown for the exspensive spice Cardamom.  . Leaves have a delightful fragrance wh...

The Epimediums are excellent groundcover plants for shade. Slow but steady spreaders once established they are tolerant of dry shade under trees but much happier with moist, organic rich soil. This hybrid has bright yellow flowers. Evergreen in al...

The Loquat is a large evergreen shrub with big leathery leaves that are toothed on the margins.  The plant flowers in mid-winter with clusters of white flowers.  The edible plum-like fruits are variable in size and quality and contain la...

This desert Coralbean can be a small tree in frost-free regions. Otherwise, it is a coarse perennial shrub growing from a large tuber-like root. Ith has three rounded leaflets, and showy tubular red or pink flowers.  The open s...

This striking plant is a woody shrub in frost-free climates but otherwise a perennial from a massive root.  It has very showy tubular red flowers in spikes followed by decorative (but poisonous) red seeds which remain on plant ...

This very showy Coralbean is a hybrid between the Argentine E. crista-galli and our native E. herbacea. Perennial in zone 8 from large root stock. Large spikes of vivid red flowers in summer. Cut back plants after...

This Euonymus is a deciduous or semi-evergreen shrub with lanceolate 3" long leaves arranged oposite each other on upright green stems. This woodland shrub native to eastern North America is a fine garden plant for shade or semi-shade and is ...

This attractive evergreen groundcover Euonymus was introduced by Heronswood Nursery having been collected by Dan Hinkley above the Wolong Panda Preserve in western China.  It has long dark green pointed leaves with prominent a...

This yet to be identified Euonymus is probably E. fortunei.  It is a low trailing evergreen shrub with long-pointed, toothed, leaves about 2 inches long.  A new introduction, it was collected by Frank Bell o...

Called "Snakeroot" this plant occus in praires and open woodlands of the eastern U.S. The normal form has green leaves but this unique form with chocolate colored foliage was selected at Mt. Cuba Center in Delaware.  It is a n...