Yew Dell Botanical Gardens Spring Plant Sale 2020
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Yew Dell The official not so complete, just about everything, might add some more stuff, and Botanical Gardens probably added a few things too many plant list. Spring Plant Sale 2020 Botanical Name Cultivar Common Name Description Annuals Alternanthera ficoidea Partytime Joseph's Coat Brilliantly colored annual with green, white and fuchsia foliage Fine textured annual with deep red/burgundy leaves to about 6-12" tall for the Alternanthera ficoidea Red Threads Joseph's Coat front of the border. One of the best annuals for foliage available! Alternanthera ficoidea Thin Gold Joseph's Coat A great dash of bright yellow color from a tough and reliable sun annual Brilliant silver/blue wormwood selection with fine foliage to about 15" tall for Artemisia mauiensis Makana™ Silver Wormwood sunny borders or containers Outstanding bold textured begonia with 8-9" diameter, leather looking leaves. Begonia Art Hodes Rhizomatous Begonia Small white flower in summer. This is an excellent container plant for shade. Stunning new annual with scarlet red flowers and bright yellow foliage. Best Begonia Canary Wings Begonia Canary Wings protected from hot afternoon sun Stylish tropical begonia with deep green leaves and brilliant silver spots. Begonia Gryphon Pegasus™ Begonia Phenomenal in your shade containers! Deep burgundy/green background with stunning silver blotches on the leaves, Begonia Jolly Holly Holiday™ Begonia this is a great house plant or container filler The parlor maples are fun and easy to grow in the garden or as a house plant - Callianthe picta Thompsonii Variegated Parlor Maple full sun to part shade yields an upright plant with yellow flecked, maple-like leaves Ornamental and edible! Wildly colored leaves in burgundy, green, cream and Capsicum annum Jigsaw Ornamental Pepper more, they produce smallish peppers that mature to almost black with a heat similar to jalapenos. Good for the veggie garden, mixed border or container. Tight little pepper with leaves that emerge touched with white but maturing to Capsicum annum Purple Flash Ornamental Pepper deep burgundy. Tiny, burgundy peppers are insanely hot. Great for ground beds and containers Plant it and stand back! This burgundy/deep purple colored annual grass will Graceful Grasses® Vertigo® grow to 6-7' tall and 3' wide in a single season. Great for a tall accent in a mixed Cenchrus purpureus Tift 8 Fountain Grass planting, screen, or beastly specimen in a very large container. One of our favorites Shorter (2') selection of this always dependable annual with uniform and fine Cleome Inncleosr Senorita Rosalita® Spider Flower textured rose colored blooms. One of Yew Dell's best annuals of 2019. Fun annual, vining member of the pea family. Plant in full sun or part shade with Cochliasanthus caracalla Corkscrew Vine something for it to climb on and it will delight with white/purple blooms through the summer While all the attention goes to the giant tropical elephant ears, we like this Colocasia Tea Party Dwarf elephant ear black, cupped form that only gets about 2-3' tall and wide. Great for large containers or to fill in a spot in the perennial garden. Excellent 2' tall tropical with unique foliage texture and white/green variegated Cyperus alterniflorus Variegatus Umbrella Sedge leaves. Great for the water garden or mixed border Nothing like it! Emerald green umbrellas of fine textured foliage to 5' or more in Cyperus papyrus Giant Egyptian Papyrus height. Great for the water garden or for some unique texture in the mixed border Wickedly cool tropical climber with pink/purple flowers that look like big, colorful bowties. It takes a little while to get going but once it does, it is stunning Dalechampia dioscoreifolia Purple Wings/Bowtie Vine in bloom. A good one to overwinter inside as the second year's show is even better Looking for something cool for the garden? This double flowering, pale purple Datura metel Purple Petticoats Devil's Trumpet bloomed angel's trumpet is sure to be a conversation starter. Excellent container plant for full sun Great annual for containers or edging beds. Deep green mounds of foliage with a Euphorbia Balbrewite Breathless® White Euphorbia haze of pure white blooms above. Blooms all summer long. Fills all of the holes in a mixed container planting without taking over! Blue My Mind® Dwarf Morning Tight and compact selection of this outstanding sun annual for the container or Evolvulus USEVO1201 Glory front of the border. Sports an actual true blue flower. Outstanding little annual for beds or containers. 12" tall/wide mounds of deep Evolvulus glomeratus Blue Daze Brazilian Dwarf Morning Glory green foliage and royal blue flowers. Bust in full sun This throw-back annual is an outstanding deep blue/purple and highly fragrant Heliotropium arborescens Marine Heliotrope annual for the sunny border or container Impatiens on steroids! Vigorous growing annual for full sun with electric pink Impatiens hawkeri SAKIMP052 Sunpatiens® Vigorous Rose Pink flowers all summer Solar Power™ Black Heart We love sweet potato vines but some seem to want to take over the world. This Ipomoea batatas Balsolabart Sweet Potato Vine dark burgundy variety has a tidier habit and great foliage color all season long Delightful mounding annual with green/gold variegated leaves and bright yellow Lantana camara Samantha Variegated Lantana flowers all summer long. Incredibly heat and drought tolerant Excellent hummingbird attracting annual vine with red/orange tubular flowers Manettia luteorubra Candy Corn Vine and deep green leaves Passiflora caerulea Blue Passionflower Unique and stunning tropical climber with amazing blue flowers. Best in full sun Excellent container plant for sunny sites - fuzzy, lemon scented leaves are always Pelargonium Citriodorum Scented Geranium a hit in the garden This scented geranium not only has rose scented leaves, the foliage is variegated Pelargonium Snowflake Scented Geranium with flecks of creamy white Excellent container plant for sunny sites - fuzzy, rose scented leaves are always a Pelargonium graveolens Old Fashioned Rose Scented Geranium hit in the garden An absolute flower machine producing mounds of yellow blooms that fade to Petunia DCAS303 Cascadias™ Indian Summer terra cotta as they age all summer long. For full sun Stunning annual for containers or mixed borders in full sun or light shade. Plectranthus Velvet™ Idol Swedish Ivy Compact branching habit and brilliant light blue flowers all summer Great tropical for containers or mixed plantings - silver/green mounds of foliage Plectranthus Nicoletta Swedish Ivy and excellent vigor. Sun or part shade Excellent annual foliage plant for sun or part shade - leaves splashed with green Plectranthus scutellarioides Alabama Sunset Coleus and red and a pink look. One of our favorites Excellent selection with leaves showing magenta centers and a rim of Plectranthus scutellarioides Pink Poodle Terra Nova® Coleus green/burgundy. Excellent annual for full sun or part shade Unique tropical climber with small, brilliant orange daisy-like blooms in summer. Pseudogynoxys chenopodioides Mexican Flame Vine Easy to overwinter for an even more dramatic show the second season Bold textured, silver foliaged biennial for a bright accent in the sun garden or Salvia argentea Silver Sage container. Probably the coolest leaf of any plant on this list, nothing but fuzzy awesomeness. Brilliant yellow, pineapple scented foliage and scarlet, late summer flowers make Salvia elegans Golden Delicious Rockin'® Pineapple Sage this an outstanding tender perennial for the full sun garden. Excellent hummingbird plant Stunning tender perennial with silver foliage and bright lavender flowers in late Salvia leucantha Mexican Bush Sage summer and fall. Best in full sun. Yew Dell favorite! Stunning silver foliaged perennial to about 16" tall and wide for full sun. Needs Senecio candicans Senaw Angel Wings Sea Cabbage good drainage Strobilanthes auriculata var. Incredibly cool annual with purple and silver leaves. Best for full sun. A better Persian Shield dyeriana plant than a coleus but Jacob would never tell coleus that. Edibles Delightful tender plant growing primarily for its lemony scented and flavored Aloysia citrodora Lemon Verbena leaves that are used in teas, sachets and in cooking. Good for containers in full sun. Easy to overwinter indoors Anethum graveolens Fernleaf Dill Great for pickles or for a host plant of the Black Swallowtail butterfly! Essential herb for any home cook. Grows well in full sun in either container or Artemisia dracunculus French Tarragon herb garden A succulent leaf that makes a great addition to salads and one of the most Basella rubra Red Malabar Spinach attractive annual vines for the garden! One of the biggest bell peppers out there. Commonly grows 8-10" long yellow Capsicum annuum Yellow Monster Sweet Bell Pepper peppers that are thick walled and juicy. Cerinthe major var. 2 - 3' tall annual with royal blue, edible flowers for the full sun garden. Great for Kiwi Blue Honeywort purpurascens a wide range of pollinators and is a great cut flower as well Taco Tuesday can't be complete without a great cilantro. Let it go to seed in the Coriandrum sativum Santo Cilantro summer and harvest some coriander too! Essential for chefs but not easy to find. This annual/tropical grass will make a big Cymbopogon citratus Lemon Grass (4-5' tall) arching mass of fine texture in the garden. FIcus carica Chicago Hardy Fig An old standard and one of the most winter hardy forms available on the market A tasty licorice treat in the garden for us and a host plant for swallowtail Foeniulum vulgare Purpereum Bronze Fennel butterflies Unique and easy to grow fruiting shrub that produces masses of deep blue, Yezberry Honey Bunch® Fly Lonicera Kaido sweet and juicy fruit. Great for fresh eating or baking. Best in full sun to part Honeysuckle shade This 2' tall herb is commonly grown for its lemon scented leaves. Light green Melissa officinalis Lemon Balm mounds of foliage produce small white flowers through much of the summer.