previous
  • Save Money by Growing Your Own
    Save Money by Growing Your Own
  • Colorful Selections for Shade
    Colorful Selections for Shade
  • Containers as Focal Points
    Containers as Focal Points
  • Comfortable Alfresco Dining
    Comfortable Alfresco Dining
  • Garden Confidential: A Plant Walks into a Bar
    Garden Confidential: A Plant Walks into a Bar
  • Indeterminate or Determinate Tomatoes?
    Indeterminate or Determinate Tomatoes?
  • In Pursuit of the Perfect Potting Shed
    In Pursuit of the Perfect Potting Shed
  • Make a Succulent Topiary
    Make a Succulent Topiary
  • NEW Video Series: There's a Better Way
    NEW Video Series: There's a Better Way
  • Stylish Shady Containers
    Stylish Shady Containers
  • Homegrown / Homemade
    Homegrown / Homemade
  • Thoughts From a Foreign Field
    Thoughts From a Foreign Field
  • Building a Compost Bin
    Building a Compost Bin
  • Elephant's Ears
    Elephant's Ears
  • 6 Tips for Weed Control
    6 Tips for Weed Control
  • Fast-Growing Trees for Impatient Gardeners
    Fast-Growing Trees for Impatient Gardeners
  • Fine Gardening's Tip Off!
    Fine Gardening's Tip Off!
  • Meet Our Mini-Magazines
    Meet Our Mini-Magazines
  • Slideshow: Beautiful Clematis
    Slideshow: Beautiful Clematis
  • Designing with Curved Terraces
    Designing with Curved Terraces
  • Mulch for a Healthy Garden
    Mulch for a Healthy Garden
  • Fragrant Plants for Pathways
    Fragrant Plants for Pathways
  • Dwarf Citrus Trees
    Dwarf Citrus Trees
  • Plant an Easy-to-Water Strawberry Jar
    Plant an Easy-to-Water Strawberry Jar
  • Pretty in Pink
    Pretty in Pink
next

Browse Plants

Narrowed By:Uses: Beds and Borders , Hedge + Characteristics: Interesting Bark, Self Seeds+ Height: Less than 6 in.
Displaying 1 - 6 of 6 listings   Sort By: Sort
Bellis perennis Bellis perennis
(English daisy)
(1 user review)
Hardiness Zones: 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11

English daisy bears stems topped with a single white, daisy-like flower. The flowers are tinged maroon and yellow; but cultivars are available with single, semi-double, or double button flowers in shades of white, pink, salmon, and ruby. The plant's smooth, spoon-shaped leaves form neat rosettes. This carpeting perennial is often grown as a biennial. Its many cultivars are used for bedding out or container displays.

Crocus speciosus Crocus speciosus
Be the first to rate this plant
Hardiness Zones: 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11

This autumn-flowering cormous perennial bears long-tubed flowers in shades of violet-blue with deeper blue veins and divided, bright orange styles.

Cyclamen hederifolium Cyclamen hederifolium
(Baby cyclamen)
(2 user reviews)
Hardiness Zones: 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11

A fine plant for fall, this cyclamen's frequently scented, mottled flowers emerge directly from the soil, followed by a carpet of patterned, mid- to dark green leaves attractively variegated with patterns in white or silver. It often blooms for up to two months. Each small pink or white flower has swept-back petals resembling a dove in flight, marked with maroon at the mouth. It makes a good foliage display all winter after the flowers have faded.

Viola tricolor Viola tricolor
(Heartsease, Johnny-jump-up, Love-in-idleness, Wild pansy)
(3 user reviews)
Hardiness Zones: 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11

This annual, biennial, or short-lived perennial is grown for its long season of pansy flowers in shades of purple, blue, yellow, and white. Viola tricolor is pretty in containers, as edging, or as a companion for bulbs. It self-seeds readily.

Zephyranthes reginae Zephyranthes reginae
(Rain lily, Rainflower, Valles yellow rain lily, Zephyr lily)
Be the first to rate this plant
Hardiness Zones: 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11

These Mexican native bulbs actually offer demanding gardeners flowers on demand. They produce strappy foliage to 12 inches tall and clusters of buttery-yellow, starry, crocus-like blossoms two to three days after every rain in summer and early autumn. Or, if it doesn't rain, simply water and fertilize three days prior to your intended display, and the moisture will prompt the flowers to appear, hence the common name, rainflower. These bulbs are widely adaptable to diverse soil conditions, and may be grown in full sun to partial shade, but they prefer some shade.

Zinnia grandiflora Zinnia grandiflora
(Prairie zinnia)
(1 user review)
Hardiness Zones: 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11

This native perennial wildflower of the American Southwest bears a profusion of bright yellow to golden yellow flowers atop 4-inch high plants that spread to 15 inches wide. They bloom from late summer into fall. 


Displaying 1 - 6 of 6 listings   Sort By: Sort