🌷 Why cannas shine in southern landscapes

🌷 Canna lilies thrive in the heat and humidity of the South, delivering bold, tropical flair with minimal effort.

🌷 These low-maintenance hardy perennials grow fast, bloom nearly year-round, and handle everything from full sun to soggy soil.

🌷 Their dramatic foliage and vivid flowers add instant impact to borders, containers, and water features.

🌷 Meet some standout Cannas:

♦️ Canna Australia - Towering up to 6-7 ft, this collectible variety flaunts fiery red blooms and rich burgundy leaves. A favorite for borders, ponds, and seed jewelry alike.

♦️Canna Madeira - A compact beauty with red blooms edged in yellow, perfect for the front of borders or small containers.

♦️Canna Tropicanna - A showstopper with tangerine flowers and striped foliage in bronze, green, and fuchsia tones - stunning even without blooms.

More Canna flowers in next post 👇

🛒 Add bold color with Cannas

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💜 This is what we plant for a compact colorful hedge solution

💜 Thunbergia erecta - Kings Mantle - is currently in full bloom in our garden, showcasing its vibrant flowers that last almost year-round.

💜One of our favorite flowering shrubs, it's compact, easy-going, and perfect for adding a splash of color.

💜Available in blue, white, and even variegated lavender flowers, King's Mantle thrives in both sun and filtered light, with its dense, manageable habit making it ideal for low-growing hedges or garden specimens.

💜It attracts butterflies and hummingbirds, and with simple pruning, it stays under 4 feet while producing a profusion of blooms.

💜Hardy to 30°F and suitable for USDA Zones 9-11, it's also great for container gardening in colder regions.

🛒 Shop Thunbergias - colorful flowers for sun and shade

📚 Learn more:

Variegated flowers of Lavender Ice
Why is it called King's Mantle
Perfect everblooming hedge for shade

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💞 Bleeding Heart Vine surprised everyone this year!

❣️ Bleeding Heart Vine (Clerodendrum thomsoniae) is not just a winter bloomer! Despite the common belief that it blooms only in winter, this beauty actually flowers year-round in warm climates, putting on a continuous display of red and white "hearts". It bloomed in winter, then in spring, and now - it's a summertime - it is still full of flowers!

❣️ The "bleeding heart" look comes from the striking contrast between the white calyx and the deep red flower inside - like a heart bursting with color.

❣️ It's a vigorous vine, perfect for trellises, arbors, or containers. It can even be trained as a shrub!

❣️ Grows best in bright filtered light or partial sun, and appreciates regular watering - but it's not fussy.

❣️ Pollinator magnet! The blooms attract hummingbirds and butterflies, adding motion and life to your garden.

❣️ Tough and tropical - i'’s hardy, low maintenance, and stays evergreen in frost-free areas.

❣️ It's not shy, not seasonal, and definitely not boring!

📚 Learn more from previous posts:

💋When is the season for the Bleeding Hearts
💋Bleeding Heart Vine

🛒Get your own Bleeding Heart

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🐊 The most unique Florida Native

🐸 Baccharis halimifolia - Aster Tree, Snow Bush, or White Cloud Tree, is a one-of-a-kind member of the daisy family - actually, it's the only tree in the Asteraceae family!

🐸 In winter, it puts on a magical show, covered in persistent fluffy white seedheads that look like fresh snow or a floating cloud.

🐸 Its quirky leaves and adaptable shape let you grow it as a shrub, small tree, or potted plant. Hardy and tough, it thrives in poor soils, handles drought, and even tolerates some frost.

🐸 A perfect choice if you are looking for beauty with zero fuss.

🛒 Bring home the magical Aster Tree - tough, unique, and blooms with beauty!

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👚 A plant wearing a sweater

👕 Tradescantia sillamontana - White Velvet, Cobweb Spiderwort - is one of those plants that stops people in their tracks and makes them ask, "What is that fuzzy thing?" Here's why it's so cool:

👕 It looks like it's wearing a sweater! Its silvery-green leaves are covered in a soft, white fuzz that looks like cobwebbing - hence the nickname Cobweb Spiderwort. It's as if the plant dressed itself for a chilly morning

👕 It grows low and spreads nicely, forming a neat, dense mound about 10-12 inches tall and 18 inches wide, making it perfect for edging, containers, or spilling over walls.

👕 In summer and fall, it surprises you with vivid magenta-purple flowers tucked among the fuzzy foliage.

👕 Despite its delicate appearance, this plant is hardy to light freezes (zone 8) and thrives on neglect. Dry spells? No problem. It pairs beautifully with succulents. Sun or shade!

👕 Whether in a rock garden, pot, or tucked into a sunny nook, White Velvet brings texture, contrast, and plenty of personality. This little spiderwort is weird, wonderful, and surprisingly easy to grow.

🛒 Get your own Fuzzy White Velvet Tradescantia

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