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Wisteria Wisteria may not flower until it is about ten years old, and needs a solid structure upon which to twine and climb. -
Variegated Weigela Variegated Weigela has light pink and white flowers in its gold-margined foliage canopy. -
Variegated Weigela At least two forms of Variegated Weigela exist in terms of their compactness and tidyness; 'Variegata' is more sprawling and needs occasional shearing to keep its appearance neat, while 'Variegata Nana' is more compact, dense, and refined, and rarely needs a touch-up pruning. Unfortunately, these and possibly other variegated cultivars of Weigela are sometimes mixed up in the nursery trade. -
Red Prince Weigela The flowers of Red Prince Weigela are abundant and intensely red, and arguably the best of all the cultivars of Weigela. -
Newport Red Weigela These flowers of Newport Red Weigela are pink-red, while other cultivars may be purple-red, dark red, pink, shell pink, or white. The opposite, serrated, elliptical foliage has acuminate apices and remains disease and pest free throughout the season. -
Java Red Old Fashioned Weigela The flowers of Java Red Weigela have a subdued lavendar color that matches well with the bronzed foliage of this compact cultivar. -
Bristol Ruby Weigela Branches of Weigela have raised white lenticels on the light gray-brown bark. -
Briant Rubidor™ Weigela The pink-red flowers of Briant Rubidor™ Weigela contrast sharply with its golden-chartreuse foliage. -
Old Fashioned Weigela These mature plants of Weigela, while attractive in flower, also serve as an effective season-long visual screen for the tennis courts behind them. -
Old Fashioned Weigela Weigela is a shrub that flowers abundantly in late Spring, and often sporadically throughout the Summer and early Autumn. -
Old Fashioned Weigela Wiegela, flowering in late Spring, is a vigorously growing shrub with many cultivars, and is also known by the name of Old Fashioned Weigela. -
Bugle Lily Bugle Lily, a member of the Iris Family, heralds the arrival of rain by blooming immediately with reddish, trumpet-shaped flowers held along tall stalks. -
Pansy Pansy flowers may be single-colored, but are usually brightly bicolored or tricolored, with distinctive patterns to the markings on the five petals, which may resemble a catface or a smiling face. Pansies are cool-season, half-hardy perennials, and may be planted in Autumn with a mulch that overwinters some of them to rebloom the following Spring. -
Pansy Pansies are often treated as tender perennials which are planted in Autumn to provide color in areas with mild Winters, or to return the following Spring with renewed growth and flowering. -
Cream Violet Violets herald the arrival of Spring with a carpet of groundcover foliage interspersed with dainty flowers. Cream Violet represents the violets that have leaves on the aerial stems, and flowers arising from the leaf axils. -
Bird's-foot Violet Bird's-foot Violet is a woodland-edge wildflower of Eastern North America that has palmately compound foliage. When placed in cultivation, it prefers dappled sun and good drainage via gritty or sandy soils on gentle slopes. -
Woolly Blue Violet The initial clump growth habit of violets may becoming moderately invasive into surrounding areas of perennial beds or lawns with time. Meadow Violet, common to urban areas and also found abundantly in moist fields or open woodlands, has purple flowers. -
Ralph Shugert Creeping Myrtle The variegated leaves of Ralph Shugert Myrtle have silver or white margins around the waxy dark green foliage, and remain effective (i.e. non-fading) throughout the entire year. -
Golden Bowles Creeping Myrtle The Spring foliage of 'Golden Bowles' is light green edged with an irregular margin of gold, while the flowers are pure white. -
Atropurpurea Creeping Myrtle The lavendar-mauve flowers of 'Atropurpurea' are attractive as a different colored cultivar of Myrtle, and should be utilized more often in landscapes, as the foliage is functionally identical in ornamental appeal as compared to the standard blue-purple flowering cultivar known as 'Bowles'. -
Creeping Myrtle The solitary flowers of Myrtle (also known as Vinca) occur as five fused petals arranged in a pinwheel fashion, and although they never create a solid carpet of color in early Spring, they are very attractive upon close inspection. -
Creeping Myrtle Myrtle never has a dense flowering effect in early Spring above its evergreen foliage, but it does put on a nice show when observed at close range. -
Creeping Myrtle Myrtle performs best at sites with afternoon shade and supplemental moisture during the Summer. When newly planted, Vinca plugs need plenty of irrigation and a little weeding during the first season. When this occurs, competitive weeds will usually be choked out in the following years due to the thick establishment of its rooting stems. -
Creeping Myrtle Myrtle puts on its best display in early to mid-Spring, not only with its flowers, but with its lush foliage. -
Vinca Vine The cream-margined leaves and cascading stems of Vinca Vine make it a popular addition to window boxes and raised planters, as a trailing and variegated complement to annuals.