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Radiance Abelia is a compact, easy-care shrub prized for its silvery-green and creamy white variegated foliage that provides year-round color and brightness in the landscape. In late spring though fall, it produces clusters of small, fragrant, white tubular flowers that attract butterflies and pollinators.
With a naturally rounded, mounding shape, Radiance is perfect for borders, foundations, mass plantings, or containers. It's heat tolerant, deer resistant, and maintains a neat habit with little to no pruning required.
Height: 2-3 feet
Spread: 3-4 feet
Light: Full sun to part shade
Hardiness: USDA Zones 6-9
Foliage: Evergreen in mild climates; variegated green with creamy-white margins
Bloom Time: Late spring through fall
Flower Color: White, fragrant
Water Needs: Low to moderate
Maintenance: Very low
Deer Resistance: Yes
Attracts: Butterflies and pollinators
Heuchera 'Forever Purple' is a standout perennial known for its vivid, glossy purple foliage that holds its rich color all season long. The deeply lobed, ruffled leaves have dark veins and a silvery sheen, creating striking contrast in shady gardens, containers, and borders.
In late spring to early summer, delicate pinkish-purple flower spikes rise above the foliage, attracting hummingbirds and pollinators. Compact and tidy, 'Forever Purple' thrives in part shade to full shade and brings bold color to the landscape with minimal maintenance.
Height: 12-14 inches (up to 20 inches with flowers)
Spread: 18-24 inches
Light: Part shade to full shade (tolerates morning sun)
Hardiness: USDA Zones 4-9
Foliage: Glossy, deep purple, evergreen in mild climates
Bloom Time: Late spring to early summer
Water Needs: Moderate; prefers well drained soil
Maintenance: Low
Attracts: Hummingsbirds, butterflies
Deer Resistant: Yes
Ruellia 'Purple Showers', also known as Mexican Petunia, is a vigorous, heat-loving perennial that brings a flood of violet-purple blooms to the garden from spring through fall. This fast-growing plant features tall, upright stems and dark green, lance-shaped leaves, creating a lush, tropical look with minimal effort.
Purple showers is sterile, meaning it won't self-seed and take over your garden like other ruellia varieties. It thrives in full sun to part shade, tolerates drought and wet soils, and is excellent for borders, containers, pollinator gardens, and mass plantings.
Height: 3-4 feet
Spread: 2-3 feet
Light: Full sun to part shade
Hardiness: USDA Zones 8-11
Bloom Time: Spring to fall
Flower Color: Purple
Water Needs: Low to moderate; tolerates poor drainage
Maintenance: Low
Wildlife: Attracts butterflies and hummingbirds
Deer Resistant: Yes
Green Giant. Arborvitae is a fast growing, dense evergreen tree prized for its rich green foliage and natural pyramidal shape. It's one of the top choices for a privacy screen or windbreak, providing year-round coverage with minimal maintenance.
This adaptable conifer tolerates a wide range of soils, is drought-resistant once established, and is deer-resistant - a major advantage in many landscapes. With its quick growth and lush, soft texture, it creates a classic green wall in just a few years.
Height: 30-50 feet
Spread: 10-15 feet
Growth Rate: Fast (3-5 feet per year)
Hardiness: USDA Zones 5-9
Light: Full sun to part shade
Foliage: Rich green, soft, fragrant, evergreen
Soil: Adaptable; prefers well-drained
Water: Moderate
Maintenance: Low
Deer Resistant: Yes
Drought Tolerance: Once established
The Chinese Fringe Tree is a stunning deciduous ornamental tree celebrated for its abundant, snowy-white flower clusters that bloom in late spring. Each delicate bloom looks like a fringe of petals, giving the tree a soft, airy appearance. The dark green, glossy foliage provides a beautiful contrast to the flowers and turns golden-yellow in fall.
Naturally rounded and easy to maintain, it's perfect as a focal point in landscapes, or planted in pairs along walkways or patios. It thrives in full sun to part shade and is adaptable to many soil types.
Height: 15-25 feet
Spread: 15-20 feet
Light: Full sun to part shade
Hardiness: USDA Zones 5-9
Bloom Time: Late spring
Features: Fragrant white flowers, attractive fall color, low maintenance
Water Needs: Moderate once established
Japanese Cedar is a graceful evergreen conifer valued for its soft, feathery foliage, elegant shape, and year-round interest. With a naturally conical or columnar form, it brings a stately, architectural presence to the landscape. The bright green foliage takes on bronze or purplish tones in winter, adding seasonal charm.
This is ideal as a privacy screen, specimen tree, or windbreak and performs best in full sun to part shade with well-drained soil. It's relatively low-maintenance and tolerant of humidity, heat, and a variety of soils once established.
Height: 30-40 feet
Spread: 15-20 feet
Light: Full sun to part shade
Hardiness: USDA Zones 6-9
Foliage: Evergreen, soft-textured, bronze in winter
Water Needs: Moderate
Growth Rate: Medium to fast
Maintenance: Low
Aureo-Variegata is a bold, eye-catching evergreen shrub known for its striking green and gold variegated foliage. The glossy leaves are edged in bright yellow, adding year-round color and contrast to garden beds, borders, and foundation plantings. This variety is versatile and adaptable, thriving in a wide range of conditions including sun to partial shade.
With a dense, upright growth habit, it's ideal for hedges, mass plantings, or specimen use. It also tolerates pruning well, making it easy to maintain at your desired shape and size.
Height: 4-6 feet (can reach 10 feet if unpruned)
Spread: 2-4 feet
Hardiness: USDA Zones 5-9
Light: Full sun to part shade
Foliage: Evergreen, glossy green with golden-yellow margins
Water Needs: Moderate - drought tolerant once established
Maintenance: Low - responds well to pruning
Coleus is a vibrant, eye-catching annual grown primarily for its colorful, patterned foliage. Available in a stunning range of colors - burgundy, lime green, pink, red, yellow, and purple - coleus adds bold texture and color contrast to beds, borders, containers, and shady gardens. The leaf shapes vary from broad and ruffled to narrow and serrated, making coleus an incredibly versatile ornamental plant.
Coleus thrives in part shade to full sun, depending on the variety, and prefers evenly moist, well-drained soil. It is fast-growing, easy to care for and makes an excellent filler or focal point in mixed plantings.
Height: 12-36 inches
Spread: 12-24 inches
Light: Part shade to full sun
Hardiness: USDA Zones 10-11
Bloom Time: Grown for foliage; small flower spikes may appear late season
Water Needs: Moderate - prefers evenly moist soil
Maintenance: Low - pinch back to encourage bushy growth and prevent flowering
Lysimachia is a fast-spreading perennial ground cover prized for its vibrant chartreuse to deep green foliage and low-growing, trailing habit. One of the most popular varieties, Creeping Jenny, features golden-yellow leaves that provide a bright pop of color in hanging baskets, containers, and shady garden beds.
This moisture-loving plant produces small yellow flowers in late spring to early summer and spreads easily to form a lush, flowing carpet. It thrives in full sun to part shade and is especially eye-catching when allowed to spill over edges or cascade from pots.
Height: 2-4 inches
Spread: 12-24+ inches (very fast spreading)
Light: Full sun to part shade
Bloom Time: Late spring to early summer
Hardiness: USDA Zones 3-9
Water Needs: Medium to high - prefers moist soil
Growth Habit: Trailing, spreading
Bearded Iris is a classic perennial beloved for its striking, ruffled blooms and sword-like foliage. Flowers appear in a wide range of colors - from deep purples and blues to soft pastels and vibrant bicolors - each with a signature fuzzy "beard" on the lower petals. Blooming in late spring to early summer, bearded irises bright height, elegance, and bold color to garden beds and borders.
These easy to grow plants prefer full sun and well-drained soil, and are drought-tolerant once established. The upright, clumping habit of the foliage adds year-round structure to the landscape.
Height: 24-40 inches
Spread: 12-24 inches
Bloom Time: Late spring to early summer (some varieties rebloom in fall)
Light: Full sun (at least 6 hours daily)
Hardiness: USDA Zones 3-9
Water Needs: Moderate to low
Maintenance: Low
Ivory Tower Yucca is a bold, architectural perennial known for its upright, sword-like blue-green leaves edged with curly white filaments. In summer, it produces tall flower spikes - up to 6 feet high - adorned with creamy white, bell-shaped blooms that attract pollinators and create a dramatic display.
This tough, drought-tolerant yucca is ideal for rock gardens, borders, and modern landscapes. It thrives in hot, sunny conditions and requires minimal care, making it a favorite for low-maintenance, high-impact gardens.
Height: 3-4 feet (5-6 with flower spike)
Spread: 3-4 feet
Sunlight: Full sun
Hardiness: USDA Zones 4-10
Water: Low (Drought tolerant)
Foliage: Evergreen, upright, with white curly leaf filaments
Bloom Time: Early to mid-summer
Maintenance: Very low
This is a graceful perennial that showcases striking bicolored blooms with rich, deep. blue outer petals and crisp white inner petals. Its delicate, nodding flowers rise above lacy green foliage in late spring to early summer, adding a touch of elegance and woodland charm to garden beds and borders.
This variety attracts hummingbirds, butterflies, and other pollinators, making it a favorite in cottage gardens and naturalized landscapes. It thrives in full sun to part shade and prefers well-drained soil
Height: 18-24 inches
Spread: 12-18 inches
Sunlight: Full sun to part shade
Hardiness: USDA Zones 3-9
Bloom Time: Late spring to early summer
Features: Deer & rabbit resistant, pollinator friendly, low maintenance.
Safari Marigolds are part of the popular French Marigold Safari Series, known for their large, double blooms and bold, vibrant colors like yellow, gold, red, and orange. These compact, bushy annuals are early bloomers and continue flowering non-stop from spring until frost. Heat-loving and easy to grow, Safari Marigolds are perfect for borders, beds, containers, and pollinator gardens. Their bright blooms not only add cheerful color but also help repel garden pests naturally.
This is a compact, evergreen shrub known for its glossy dark green leaves and fragrant, upright white flower spikes that bloom in spring. Its tidy, mounded habit makes it ideal for low hedges, foundation plantings, and mass plantings in both sun and shade. Drought-tolerant once established, this laurel provides year-round structure and privacy while staying low-maintenance and attractive throughout the season.
Height: 3-4 feet
Spread: 4-6 feet
Hardiness: USDA Zones 6-9
Asiatic Jasmine is a tough, evergreen ground cover known for its glossy green foliage, low-growing habit, and excellent weed suppression. Although it's related to Confederate Jasmine, Asiatic Jasmine is grown primarily for its foliage rather than flowers and rarely blooms. It forms a dense mat that spreads widely but stays low, making it perfect for erosion control, mass plantings, and areas where turf grass struggles to grow. Drought-tolerant, deer-resistant, and virtually maintenance free once established, it thrives in sun or shade and is ideal for southern landscapes.
Height: 6-12 inches
Spread: 2-5 feet (can spread much farther over time)
Hardiness: USDA Zones 7-10
Green Mountain Boxwood is a cold-hardy, upright evergreen shrub known for its naturally conical shape and dense, rich green foliage that retains its color year-round. A hybrid of Korean and English Boxwood, this variety is specifically bred for enhanced winter hardiness and strong form, making it an excellent choice for formal hedges, topiaries, foundation plantings, and garden accents. Green Mountain grows slowly and requires minimal pruning to maintain its tidy, pyramidal shape. It tolerates sun to partial shade and adapts well to various soil types with good drainage
Height: 3-5 feet
Spread: 2-3 feet
Hardiness: USDA Zones 4-9
Evergreen: Yes
Growth Rate: Slow
Drought Tolerant: Yes - once established
Lavender Vinca, also known as Madagascar Periwinkle, is a heat loving, low maintenance annual that brings continuous color to sunny garden beds and containers. Its glossy green foliage contrasts beautifully with soft lavender blooms that resemble impatiens but thrive in full sun and dry conditions. This drought - tolerant flower blooms from spring to frost without deadheading, making it an ideal choice for landscapes needing reliable, fuss-free color. Vinca is also resistant to deer and pests, perfect for borders, mass plantings, or patio pots.
Height: 10-18 inches
Spread: 12-14 inches
Hardiness: USDA Zones 10-11 (perennial in the tropics/annual elsewhere)
The Chinese Juniper is a versatile evergreen that brings structure, texture, and year-round color to any garden or landscape. With dense, scale-like foliage in shades of deep green to silvery blue-green (depending on the variety), this hardy conifer offers natural elegance in both formal and informal settings.
Used commonly for hedges, foundation plantings, specimen accents, or even topiary and bonsai, Chinese Juniper is highly adaptable. It's known for its exceptional heat and drought tolerance, as well as resistance to pests and deer. Its upright or spreading form varies by cultivar, making it easy to find one that suits your space.
Light: Full sun
Height: 5-50 feet (depending on variety)
Spread: 4-20 feet
Hardiness: USDA Zones 4-9
Features: Evergreen, drought tolerant, heat tolerant, deer resistant
Maintenance: Very Low