MASTER GARDNERS FALL PLANT SALE - 9/21/2013 Page 1 of 18 BULBS, FERNS, MISC. Donkey Ears Kalanchoe gastonis-bonnieri Airplane Plant, Variegated from www.plant-care.com: Unlike Chlorophytum comosum 'Variegatum' other succulents, Kalanchoe donkey Leaves can be all green, Pale green ear grows fast and can tolerate with white or yellow central stripe or almost any condition. It looks best green with wihte margins. Excellent outdoors; just take it back in during for hanging baskets or can be used winter and place it in any bright- as groundcover under trees or in a window indoors. In landscaping, very protected patio.Sends daughter Kalanchoe donkey ear is used as a plants off by shoot. Here's more than low-rise specimen plant. Kalanchoe you need to know about this plant. donkey ear plants can also be grown Http://goto.glocalnet.net/natal/amp/am pel.htm Fern, Foxtail Protasparagus densiflorus var. Myersii Aloe The cultivar 'Myersii' (foxtail fern) is Aloe vera also great for containers. It has a from www.thegardenhelper.com: All neater, more restrained look than the Aloes are semitropical succulent 'Sprengeri' fern; stiffly upright stems to plants, and may only be grown 2' long, with very dense, cylindrical outdoors in areas where there is no plume-like foliage, giving the plant a chance of freezing. However, they fluffy, cloud-like appearance. The make excellent house plants when stems are like bottle brushes, 2-3" in they are given sufficient light. Potted diameter, and tapering gradually to Aloes benefit from spending the the tips. summer outdoors. Fern, Macho Nephrolepis biserrata Cactus, Thornless Pricklypear This is the ideal fern for LARGE Opuntia stricta baskets. It looks fine finished as a 6" May be invasive. from pot up to a 10" basket and even as www.wikipedia.com: Commonly gallons for growing outdoors Do keep known known as Erect Prickly Pear, is in mind that this is the grandaddy of a species of cactus from southern all the Nephrolepis baskets. If it is to North America and Central America. be a landscape fern, it can take full It produces lemon yellow flowers in sun for much of the day. the spring and summer, followed by purplish-red fruits. It has been introduced to South Africa and Australia where it has become an invasive weed. Lily of the Nile, Ellamae Agapanthus x 'Ellamae' Delosperma (Ice Plant) from Delosperma cooperi www.magnoliagardensnursery.com: from www.plantszafrica.com: This It is grown for the dark, glossy, strap- predominantly summer rainfall genus shaped leaves that arch gracefully. has long been overlooked as a Flowers are borne on long erect garden plant. Growth forms vary stems 3 feet or taller. Agapanthus vastly and showy flowers are make good background plants or produced over long periods, thus edging along a fence, driveway, or making them ideal rockery subjects, wall. These plants can thrive on while some species form low, dense conditions of neglect and naturalize clumps and are more suitable as readily. This is a very vigorous grower. groundcovers in shady spots. Lily, Australian Canna Canna 'Australia' Desert Rose from www.plantdelights.com: We Adenium obesum have grown a lot of purple-foliaged from www.plantoftheweek.org: cannas but never anything like this. Succulent member of the oleander The deep burgundy-black tropical- family. Desert Rose needs to have a looking foliage has a satin-like sheen soil mix of sand or brick chips mixed and the intense color holds superbly into regular soil, or a cactus mix. The during the summer heat. The foliage soil should dry completely between rises to 4-5', topped with a waterings. Water sparingly during magnificent display of large, shocking winter months. All parts of the plant red flowers. are poisonous. MASTER GARDNERS FALL PLANT SALE - 9/21/2013 Page 2 of 18 Lily, Spider Moss Rose Hymenocallis liriosme Portulaca grandiflora from http://www.wildflower.org: An from www.floridata.com: Moss rose elegant and unusual-looking flower, makes a beautiful ground cover in a the spider lily has a stem 1–3 feet dry or rocky area, although it cannot high, with 2 or 3 blossoms at the top. be walked on. Use moss rose as The flower has 3 white sepals and 3 edging at the front of borders or in the petals which are alike and unite to cracks in a rock wall, or the spaces form a tube 2–4 inches long, narrow between stepping stones. It's perfect but spreading. The flowers are quite for a hot, dry, south facing slope. fragrant. Mother of Thousands/Millions SMALL PERENNIALS Kalanchoe daigremontiana various sources: Not cold-hardy. Alder, Yellow They like sun and partial shade and Turnera ulmifolia can withstand hot temperatures if May be invasive. From given regular water. All parts of this www.davesgarden.com: The two- plant are poisonous if ingested. After inch wide, bright yellow flowers open a year or two of maturing the mother in the morning and are closed by of thousands will flower usually in late noon. It has tiny seeds that sow winter. It grows plantlets along the prolifically. It will often grow out of a leaf's edges. crack in the sidewalk after a seed germinates there. Queen's Tears Billbergia zebrina They are generally epiphytic. They Aster grow on rock from southern Mexico to Aster patens var. patens northern Argentina with the greatest from http://www.wikipedia.com: The number found in Brazil. They require name Aster comes from the Ancient strong light to enhance leaf coloration Greek word astron, meaning "star". and beautiful markings. These Many species and a variety of hybrids superior foliage plants will tolerate dry and varieties are popular as garden air. Their few leaves grow upright plants because of their attractive and forming a narrow rosette. colourful flowers. Aster species are used as food plants by the larvae of a number of butterflies. ANNUALS Celery Aster, Fall Apium graveolens Symphyotrichum oblongifolium from www.eol.org: Celery is a from Michael Womack: Few plants biennial which produces in the first are more striking in fall than this year an upright rosette of leaves (40 Texas native plant that is known for to 60 cm in height) with closely blue flowers and yellow centers. appressed succulent leaf stalks. In the Even if your goal is not butterfly second year, it produces a tall attraction, you definitely want to flowering stem with terminal and consider this perennial favorite to axillary umbels of small, greenish- liven up your fall garden. Despite its white flowers that give rise to tiny 1.5 name, this plant blooms again in the mm long tiny fruits. spring if you remove the spent blossoms. Coneflower, Cheyenne Spirit Basil, Sweet Echinacea 'Cheyenne Spirit' Ocimum basilicum from www.parkseeds.com: Bright from wikipedia.com: Basil is most daisies of cream, yellow, gold, commonly recommended to be used orange, scarlet, red, and purple top fresh; in cooked recipes, it is generally these stocky little plants from added at the last moment, as cooking midsummer all the way into fall, quickly destroys the flavor. The fresh replacing themselves without you herb can be kept for a short time in having to cut or deadhead them, plastic bags in the refrigerator, or for a blooms the very first year. longer period in the freezer, after being blanched quickly in boiling water. MASTER GARDNERS FALL PLANT SALE - 9/21/2013 Page 3 of 18 Begonia, Cane Caricature Plant Begonia coccinea Graptophyllum pictum Begonia coccinea is a species from begonia native to Brazil. Many hybrids www.missouribotanicalgarden.org: have been produced using it as a tropical evergreen shrub that will grow parent. Plant has thick, leathery, solid to 6-9’ tall and primarily grown for its bright-green leaves with a soft sheen variegated foliage. Oval to elliptic and bright red flowers. Variants in leaves (to 6” long) are deep green flower color include dark pink and varyingly blotched with cream along deep coral/salmon. the midveins. Common name derives from the leaf markings resembling the profile of a human face. Blue Daze Carolina Reaper Pepper Plant Evolvulus glomeratus 'Blue Daze' Capsicum chinense x 'Carolina Reape from www.floridata.com: The feltlike rom www.localharvest.org: This is an gray-green foliage and pale blue extremely hot variety developed by a flowers make blue daze a standout in grower named Ed Currie who created beds and borders or as a ground this chile plant variety by crossing a cover.Blue daze is spectacular in Pakistani Naga with a Red hanging containers. It is highly Habanero. It has been Scoville tested tolerant of salt and makes a fine and has a heat level of over ornamental for the coastal garden. 1,400,000. Plants grow slow in the Let it cascade over a window box or a beginning like Nagas but are very porch planter. productive. Brazilian Button Chaya Centratherum intermedium Cnidoscolus chayamansa from www.backyardgardener.com: from www.toptropicals.com: Chaya is Attractive, fluffy, lavender-blue, button- a little known leafy green vegetable of like flowers approx 2cm (¾in) across dry regions of the tropics. The name are produced all summer on bushy comes from the Mayan chay. plants with unusual, pineapple However, raw chaya leaves are highly fragrant foliage. Very heat and poisonous. They contain a high drought tolerant, attracting butterflies content of hydrocyanic acid. In this and adding fragrance to borders or respect chaya is similar to cassava. containers. self-sows freely. Bulbine Chile Pequin Bulbine frutescens Capsicum annuum from plantzafrica.com: Bulbine from texasnature.blogspot.com: frutescens is often used in Cilipiquins, the wild progenitor of the landscaping where a drought- jalapeno pepper, packs a wallop that resistant, tough groundcover is surpasses all of the cultivated hot required.