Chilean Jasmine (Mandevilla laxa). This twining vine from Argentina has luxurious 6 inches long bright green glossy leaves with a long tapering point and abundant fragrant white flowers in summer. My specimen has climbed a post to about 20 feet.
(Courtesy Tom Karwin) Begonia (Begonia x tuberhybrida pendula ‘Illumination Apricot’) This shade-preferred trailing annual grows 8” high and trails up to 24”. This cultivar has orange flowers with apricot shading, blooming until frost. It is shown behind a Bromeliad.
(Courtesy Tom Karwin) Cape Fuchsia (Phygelius aequalis ‘Yellow Trumpet’). A South African sub-shrub that grows 3 ft. tall x 2 ft.
wide, with showy, trumpet-shaped, pendant, yellow-throated flowers in 10 in. long panicles hanging from one side of the stem. A member of the Figwort plant family (Scrophulariaceae).
(Courtesy Tom Karwin) Purple Phlomis (Phlomis purpurea). This European shrub is a member of the Mint plant family (Lamiaceae). It’s a larger relative of Lamb’s Ears (Stachys Byzantina), growing 6 ft.
x 6 ft. It has woolly, medium gray-green leaves and lavender flowers rising above the foliage with a peak bloom in late spring. (Courtesy Tom Karwin) Firecracker Plant, Cigar Flower (Cuphea ignea).
This evergreen, bushy sub-shrub, native to Mexico and the West Indies, grows 30 in. tall and wide. Small, tubular, bright red flowers bloom singly from late spring to frost along stems crowded with pointed, lance-shaped to ovate, dark green leaves.
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