Common name:Sweet-Pea Shrub
Botanical name:Polygala X dalmaisiana

This evergreen shrub grows to a height of 5'. Its leaves are blue green, and the flowers produced are pea-like, with a purplish pink color.

Common name:Mexican Bush Sage
Botanical name:Salvia leucantha

The Mexican sage is a bushy shrub that grows 3-4 ft. tall and wide. It has hairy white stems, gray-green leaves and velvet like purple flower spikes that bloom summer through fall. This shrub tolerates sun, light shade, little water, and is hardy to 15 degrees F. The Mexican sage is drought tolerant and attracts hummingbirds. -Cornflower Farms

Common name:Weeping White Mulberry
Botanical name:Morus alba 'Pendula'

Morus alba 'Pendula' is a beautiful deciduous tree that reaches 6-10' tall and 8-12' wide. Flowers bloom in spring but are considered insignificant. Sweet, edible, blackberry-like fruit appear in June, ripening to a white, pink, purple or dark red fruit that is loved by birds. Leaves are dark green, serrated at the edges changing to yellow during fall. Fallen fruit may stain sidewalks. It does best in full sun with fertile, moist, well draining soil. Mature trees tolerate heat, drought and alkaline soil. This is a shallow rooted tree so do not plant in parking strip next to sidewalk. Prune in fall to maintain weeping look.

Common name:Crape Myrtle
Botanical name:Lagerstroemia indica

The new leaves of this species are 2" long, bright gren, and tinged with bronze. Its fall color is affected by the weather. While it has a bare outline, its rounded seed capsules add interest. Its delicate flowers bloom in 6-12" long clusters. The colors of its flowers are shades of red, rose, pink, purple, and white. It thrives on heat, and new cultivars have been created that resist mildew.

Common name:Bitsy Hybrid Daylily
Botanical name:Hemerocallis 'Bitsy'

Yellow flowers in profusion for over 250 days per year here. Thin scapes give an airy, fairy-like quality. Tinty 2" lemon-yellow blossoms appear very early in the season above 12-20" slender, grassy foliage.- Greenwood Daylily Gardens

Common name:Striped Society Garlic
Botanical name:Tulbaghia violacea 'Variegata'

The striped Society Garlic is a garlic scented perennial with green narrow leaves that have white margins to 1 ft. tall. The flowers are lavender clusters on a 1-2 ft. stem that bloom in the spring and summer. This perennial is drought tolerant.

Common name:Gingerbread Man Hybrid Daylily
Botanical name:Hemerocallis 'Gingerbread Man'

Attention-getting mahogany orange blooms over dark green foliage. Very heat tolerant. - Greenwood Daylily Gardens