Bonnie’s Garden

A Great New Line-up of Plants for 2008

Mostly foliage

    Ensete maurelii (False Banana)

    Musa `Siam Ruby` (Ornamental Banana)

    Musa `Truly Tiny` (Ornamental Banana)

    Alocasia odora

    Xanthosoma aurea `Lime Zinger`

    Heuchera Dolce® ‘Key Lime Pie’

    Heuchera Dolce® ‘Licorice’

    Heuchera Dolce® ‘Creme Brulee’

Great Annuals for hanging baskets, container gardens, and garden beds

    Calypso Breeze

    Calibrachoa ‘Mini-Famous’ Apricot with a red eye (mini-petunia)

    Calibrachoa ‘Callie Sunrise’ (Mini-petunia)

    Euphorbia ‘Diamond Frost’

    New Guinea Impatiens ‘Sonic Salmon on Gold’

    New Guinea Impatiens ‘Sonic Sweet Purple’

    Petunia hybrid: 'Supertunia Vista Bubblegum'

    Scaevola ‘Bombay’ – a light blue fanflower

    Torenia 'Summer Wave Light Violet' (a light violet clown flower)

    Verbena ‘Lanai Peach’ and 'Tukana Deep Red'

 Some Great Shrubs

    Crape Myrtle 'Natchez' and 'Dynamite'

    Brugmansia (Angel's Trumpets, white and pink)

   Hydrangea paniculata 'Limelight'

    Tecoma stans var. angustata (Esperanza or Yellow Bells)

    Viburum suspensum

    Loropetalum daruma - A dwarf fringe flower 3-4 ft tall/wide; dark purple burgundy leaves; evergreen; moist, acid soil; part shade 

    Lantana ‘Dallas Red’     

    Lantana ‘New Gold’ 

    Physocarpus ‘Mindia Coppertina’     Coppery orange foliage decorates this native ninebark. As summer progresses the coppery foliage transforms to a rich red hue. Dotted with pinkish-white flowers in summer. Here’s a link that tells you more about this plant. http://www.provenwinners.com/plants/detail.cfm?photoID=7777&doSearch=1&searchGenus=Physocarpus&searchSeries=&btnSearch=Search&

    Weigela ‘Wine and Roses’ – A beautiful spring-blooming shrub that will knock your socks off. Here are a couple of links: http://www.colorchoiceplants.com/wine_&_roses.htm and  http://www.provenwinners.com/plants/detail.cfm?photoID=7762&doSearch=1&searchProgram=ColorChoice%C2%AE%20Flowering%20Shrubs&page=4&

Some Great Perennials

    Asclepias (Butterfly Weed)   

    Amaryllis   

    Canna yellow

    Cuphea ‘Totally Tempted’ and 'Tiny Mice'   

    Clerodendrum - Bleeding Heart

    Clerodendrum- Blue Wings

    Evolvulus ‘Blue Daze’

    Duranta  - Lavender

    Gaura lindheimeri 'Stratosphere', white

    Gingers, White Butterfly and Curcuma

    Ruellia - Brazilian Petunia -- A beautiful red, well-behaved Ruellia

    Rudbeckia 'Goldsturm' (Black-eyed Susan)

    Salvia -- 'Black and Blue', 'Indigo Spires', 'Mystic Spires', 'Greggii Red', 'Spanish Dancer'

    Sedum acre -- 'Gold Moss'

    Justicia 'White Candle' (Shrimp Plant)

    Thunbergia battiscombei (Blue Glory Bower)

    Verbena  ‘Homestead Purple’

    Verbena ‘Peruviana’

    Veronica spicata 'Royal Candles'

 Ornamental Grasses

    Miscanthus zebrina (Zebra Grass)

    Miscanthus ‘Adagio’

    Miscanthus ‘Morning Light’

    Miscanthus sinensis 'Little Kitten'    

    Muhlenbergia ‘White Cloud’ and 'Pink Muhly'

    Panicum ‘Rotstrahbusch’

    Panicum ‘Shenandoah’

    Panicum virgatum 'Dallas Blues'   

    Pennisetum ‘National Arboretum’

Tropicals

    Plumeria, red, white and pink