Common name:Red Riding Hood Penstemon
Botanical name:Penstemon 'Red Riding Hood'

Red Riding Hood has an abundance of huge, white lipped, coral-red flowers from late spring through summer. A Dutch hybrid developed from Penstemon barbatus, Red Riding Hood is a very showy, cold hardy Penstemon. Drought resistant/drought tolerant plant (xeric). 18-24" tall x 18" wide. It attracts bees and hummingbirds but is deer and rabbit resistant. It does best in full sun with well draining, low fertile soil.

Common name:Sunshine Ligustrum
Botanical name:Ligustrum sinense 'Sunshine'

Sunshine Ligustrum is a hybrized Ligustrum with charteuse colored leaves. It grows to about 6 ft. in height and 3-4 ft. wide. It makes a great short hedge. Incredible color accent. Full sun to part shade and tough.

Common name:Whale's Tongue Agave
Botanical name:Agave ovatifolia

This versatile Agave is a solitary plant, growing quite large, with rosettes that can reach 7' across. Leaves are grayish white color with small marginal teeth. The leaf blade is short, wide and distinctively cupped, thus the common name, Whale's Tongue. This Agave looks great in a pot on a patio, under trees, with large boulders or planted with other succulents. It can take intense heat and cold. It grows moderately fast but prefers well drained soil.

Common name:Lemon Lime Nandina
Botanical name:Nandina domestica 'Lemon Lime'

Lemon Lime has chartreuse new foliage that fades to a nice green, and will not turn red, even over the winter. It grows to about 3 ft in height and width. It has all the usual hardy features of the Nandina group. This is a tough plant.

Common name:Horsetail Restio
Botanical name:Elegia capensis

This attractive perennial resembles a grass gone wild. Stalks reach 6'-8' tall, with even spacing of long feathery branches and paper-like bracts. Plants can spread 7' wide. Clusters of small brown flowers appear above foliage in fall and winter. This plant needs constant moisture and well draining soil in full or part sun. It is dramatic when moving in the wind.

Common name:Platinum Beauty Lomandra
Botanical name:Lomandra 'Platinum Beauty'

This perennial grass reaches about 3' tall and wide. Leaves are glossy green with white variegation, shiny, firm, flat. Each cluster has a sharp, slender, straw-colored bract at its base, which gives it a dense spike-like structure. It does best in full to part sun with well draining soil. Apply fertilizer in spring. No pruning needed for this reliable and tough grass. Established plants are low water usage plants.

Common name:Chitalpa
Botanical name:Chitalpa tashkentensis 'Pink Dawn'

This medium size deciduous tree grows rapidly to 20-30' high and as wide, producing long, pointed, deep green leaves. Upon these leaves grow the pink to white trumpet shaped flowers with purple markings. Over a long season, these flowers will appear in showy clusters.

Common name:Golden Spirit Smoke Tree
Botanical name:Cotinus coggygria 'Golden Spirit'

Golden Spirit Smoke Tree or 'Ancot' is a cultivar of the Cotinus clan with changing color foliage. This striking color, shockingly bright actually, makes it a natural focal point and specimen plant. It is a multi-stemmed shrub that can grow up to 8' tall and 6' wide in 10 years, thus resembling a small tree. Rounded leaves emerge in spring with lime green color, changing to gold in summer and then turning to coral or red in fall before dropping leaves. Pink flower plumes emerge during summer. This shrub does best in full or part sun with well draining, fertile soil. It needs regular watering when root system is being established, then occasional deep watering and more during hot spells. It has a rounded habit and can be pruned every few years to tidy plant and promote colorful foliage. Fertilize in spring.

Common name:Kindred Spirit Hybrid Oak
Botanical name:Quercus x Kindred Spirit®

Kindred Spirit® ('Nadler') Hybrid Oak is an interspecific hybrid of the Columnar English Oak (Q. robur fastigiata) and Swamp Oak (Q. bicolor). The habit is tightly columnar, and the foliage is clean and mildew resistant. The leaves are dark green with a silver underside, turning shades of yellow and bronze in fall. Quercus x Kindred Spirit® would make an excellent tall hedge, or be an attractive architectural element when used as a specimen. A great street tree because of its narrow form. Tolerant of urban pollution. Established trees are drought tolerant.