Characteristics - Page 21 of 128 - Fine Gardening

  • Plant Guide

    ‘Pink Frost’ sweet potato vine

    Ipomoea batatas 'Pink Frost'

    This sweet potato vine is blessed with leaves that are edged in pink.

  • Plant Guide

    ‘Blackie’ sweet potato vine

    Ipomoea batatas ‘Blackie’

    This tender tuberous perennial with heart-shaped, lobed, almost black leaves bears trumpet-shaped lavender to pale-purple flowers.

  • Plant Guide

    Japanese winterberry

    Ilex serrata 'Sundrops'

    This compact deciduous holly reaches up to 8 feet tall with equal or greater spread.

  • Plant Guide

    ‘Nicolas’ Japanese forest grass

    Hakonechloa macra ‘Nicholas’

    Some gardeners love Japanese forest grass because it looks like a baby bamboo grove or a lush woodland carpet.

  • Plant Guide

    White-edged hosta

    Hosta ‘Patriot’

    'Patriot' is one of the few hostas that can really take the heat.

  • Plant Guide

    Dolce® Licorice heuchera

    Heuchera 'TNHEU044'

    This purple to almost black heuchera adds drama to the shade.

  • Plant Guide

    ‘Blackberry Jam’ heuchera

    Heuchera 'Blackberry Jam'

    This heuchera, sold as Dolce® Blackcurrant in the U.

  • Plant Guide

    ‘Caramel’ heuchera

    Heuchera 'Caramel'

    Heuchera 'Caramel' has H.

  • Plant Guide

    ‘Green Spice’ coral bells

    Heuchera 'Green Spice'

    This coral bells cultivar has silvery leaves with vivid purple veins and spires of white flowers in late spring and early summer.

  • Plant Guide

    Mexican fire bush

    Hamelia patens

    A tropical tree by design, the Mexican fire bush freezes to the ground in winter in Zones 8–11 but grows up to 5 feet tall by summer's end.