Scientific Name (Genus/Species): Eucomis zambesiaca

Family: Asparagaceae

Tender bulb to 12″.  South Africa.  Narrow racemes of open, creamy white flowers.  The first Eucomis to bloom, producing flower spikes as early as late spring.  Easy to grow.  Sun.  3 & T2

Scientific Name (Genus/Species): Cneorum tricoccon

Family: (Rutaceae)

Tender shrub to 2′.  Spurge Olive.  This attractive and rare evergreen shrub with glossy, dark green leaves blooms in early summer.  Clusters of deep, four-petalled, yellow flowers are followed by red fruits that age to black.  Sun.  3 & T2

Scientific Name (Genus/Species): Romanzoffia californica

Family: (Boraginaceae)

(P) to 8″.  California Mistmaiden.  A native of California and southern Oregon, where it thrives on rocky ocean bluffs, moist forests and wet cliffs.  Tight, attractive clumps of high-gloss green succulent leaves are perfectly scalloped.  Early spring brings attractive, small, white, five-petalled flowers with pale yellow throats held in curving cymes above the foliage.  During the heat of summer, it dies back to a tuberous base and goes completely dormant.  Sun.  3 & 7 for 3 weeks, then T2

Scientific Name (Genus/Species): Ceratostigma willmottianum

Family: (Plumbaginaceae)

(TP) to 4′. Chinese Plumbago. West China to Tibet. Deciduous shrub. Leaves lanceolate to obovate. Slender angled stems are tinged purple and bristly. Dense terminal heads of five-lobed, pale blue flowers, white centres, and red-purple corolla tubes. Foliage turns a beautiful tinted red in autumn. Sun/partial shade. 3 & T2

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Scientific Name (Genus/Species): Narcissus viridiflorus

Family: (Amaryllidaceae)

Tender bulb to 12″. Southwest Spain, Morocco. Grows in damp fields, blooming in autumn. Like the name suggests, this Narcissus has green flowers. Umbels of three to five slender-petalled, matte green, sweetly scented flowers are very petite and delicate. Extremely choice. Sun. 3 & T1

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Scientific Name (Genus/Species): Arthropodium candidum Bronze Leaf

Family: (Asparagaceae)

Tender bulb to 12″. New Zealand. Starry white, six-petalled flowers bloom in early summer. Mottled bronze leaves are grass-like. Excellent for the cool greenhouse. Adorable. Sun. 3 & T2

Scientific Name (Genus/Species): Heimia salicifolia

Family: (Lythraceae)

Tender shrub to 10′.  Willow-leaved Heimia, Elixir of the Sun.  South US, C & S America.  This unusual plant has many slender, woody stems that are densely covered in mostly opposite, narrow, linear, green leaves.  Small flowers have six, bright yellow, somewhat wrinkled, roundly obovate petals.  The petals are attached to the rim of the tube-shaped floral cup with 12 stamens inserted low in the cup.  The flowers arise from the leaf axils and bloom in profusion all summer.  This plant is very accommodating – in the spring we plant it in our Flower Garden and Order Beds then dig it up in the fall.  It never skips a beat.  4 & T2

Scientific Name (Genus/Species): Dregea sinensis

Family: (Apocynaceae)

(TP). We grow this fabulous vine in a pot in our Pit House. Here, it twines around upright supports and runs along the eaves. In June, sweetly scented, waxy, white-blushed, pale pink clusters of flowers hang down from above. Native of China and used to be known as Wattakaka sinensis. Shame about the name change. What a treasure. Sun. 3 & T2

Scientific Name (Genus/Species): Eucomis comosa

Family: (Asparagaceae)

Tender bulb to 12″. Pineapple Lily. South Africa. Fat, cylindrical racemes show off pendulous, cream or green flowers edged purple, with a pineapple-like tuft of leaves at the top of each thick stem. A magnificent, bulbous plant. A welcome late summer treat. Sun. 3 & T2

Scientific Name (Genus/Species): Habranthus robustus

Family: (Amaryllidaceae)

Tender bulb to 8″. Rain Lily. A native of Argentina and South Brazil. The three-inch, Lily-like flowers, two per stem, are a blushed pink with darker veining and a green throat. Narrow, strap-like foliage. Grow Habranthus on a cool windowsill in well-drained soil. Easy. Sun. 3 & T2