Tall stately flower spikes are usually covered in bicoloured or vividly coloured pea like blooms. Some plants can reach nearly 2 meters tall in the right site. Basal clump of lovely lush palmate leaves are always decorative until the frost takes them.
A lovely medium sized fast growing tree with delicate fernlike pinnate leaves that give dappled shade in winter. In late Spring, dense clusters of honey scented white sweet pea-like flowers hang in loose clusters. Loved by nectar seekers as the tree is alive with hummingbirds at this time. Black...
Yardlong beans are my favourite ever since served a dish of spicy greenbean with shrimp years ago. I find this black seeded strain very productive. Plants grow very quickly and start producing harvestable 30-45 cm long dark green tender stringless meaty beans in 2 months after the first set of...
A graceful tree with fern like bipinnate leaves that, like all mimosas, close up at night. The fragrant pink brushy fan shaped fuzzy mid summer blooms attract hummingbirds. The speading form casts dappled shade providing a perfect setting for shade loving perennials or enjoying a min julep but...
This lupin loves full sun and extremely well drainings soils. Seed is from plants growing in deep sandy soils. Don't over water this species no give it poorly drained sites. Plants reach 1 meter in height and are extremely bushy being covered in small fuzzy leaves.
Rare Carolinian deciduous forest tree. The doubly compound leaves are the largest in North America. Very handsome and robust plant that from a distance looks like wisteria growing up a branched support. Because of the open form, the branches are not prone to breakage in heavy snow. Pest free. ...
A small semi prostrate species capable of form in dense matt like colonies of gorgeous blue and creamy white flowers and grayish green small fuzzy leaves. Green seed pods become black when ripe and burst open hurling seeds creating an even larger colony.
A tough little tree with rosy pink flowers that appear from June until frost providing nectar and pollen for many winged creatures. Lovely blue green pinnate leaves. Grows to 2-3 meters tall with half the spread. Smooth reddish flat bean like seed pods. Interesting yellow autumn colouring. ...
Cousin to North America's Kentucky Coffee Tree, is one of the rarest trees. Almost extinct in China and nearly unheard of in cultivation whether in public and private gardens and arboretums. Form is very much like its North American cousin in size and form, except for its remarkable foliage that...
