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For an excellent article on adding gingers and other tropicals to your Louisiana garden (or other south central or southeastern garden) see " Louisiana Gardeners Enjoy a Taste of the Tropics " by Dan Gill, LSU AgCenter Horticulturist.

* A very ornamental and variable plant. * Requires an acid humus-rich soil, succeeding in part shade or in full sun in cooler areas. Prefers almost full sun. * Blue-green evergreen leaves; half-inch flowers in rounded masses at the ends of branches, pink...

* One of the few roses grown for its foliage as well as its flowers; their color is difficult to describe--Dirr says coppery or purplish, but dusty purple gray and reddish blue also come to mind; flower color varies from seed--generally light to deep...

A very disease resistant and free-blooming antique climbing rose producing lightly fragrant 2" cherry red blooms for 10 months of the year here in zone 8B. This may need to be done while the stems are still pliable but not when they are so tender that...

The flowers attract hummingbird moths early in the day and bees and other pollinators once the flower color deepens. A full to mostly sunny location and a well-drained fertile soil will help to ensure vigorous growth and will help to maximize flowering.

* A sprawling plant unless staked, perhaps best for romping through a semi-wild border; small blue flowers in considerable numbers in midsummer; full sun or part shade, persistent once established; native to China.

It blooms from April to May, with trusses of 6–12 flowers, campanulate, white to pink, and fragrant. * Fragrant white or pink flowers to 3" across; 8" evergreen leaves; parent of many hybrids; native to eastern China.

According to Bowley (l.c. 176) it is disturbing that it is only known to be growing wild in the valley of Kashmir, for, with so limited a location there must be some anxiety that it might disappear in the course of agriculture and other developments.

Where not hardy the Sweetbay can be overwintered indoors as a container plant. The Sweetbay develops into a large evergreen shrub or small tree and can easily be trained into topiary forms or shaped into a hedge.

In Chinese ; pinyin : shao or bai shao ; bai meaning "white"), and common garden peony is a herbaceous perennial flowering plant in the family Paeoniaceae , native to central and eastern Asia from eastern Tibet across northern China to eastern Siberia...

To learn more about the search for the elusive red Sweet Olive from Dr. David Creech of SFA Gardens click here or the "More information from Universities, Horticulturists, and Plantsmen..." below.

According to Bowley (l.c. 176) it is disturbing that it is only known to be growing wild in the valley of Kashmir, for, with so limited a location there must be some anxiety that it might disappear in the course of agriculture and other developments.

* Helleborus niger is an evergreen plant with dark, leathery, pedate leaves carried on stems to 9–12 in (23–30 cm) tall. Division after flowering or in autumn. * In antiquity the most famous place for the black hellebore was the Phokian city of Antikyra...

* Prunus laurocerasus (common name Cherry laurel and sometimes called English laurel in North America) is a species in the genus Prunus , native to regions bordering the Black Sea in southwestern Asia and southeastern Europe , from Albania and Bulgaria...

There are five narrow points spaced symmetrically around the rim. This makes dosage estimation a difficult and adds further risk to the administration of material that already has potentially lethal side effects.

Large, dark pink trumpets with an almost glossy appearance are borne in summer on this Angel's Trumpet. An excellent choice for large containers.

It has a profound tonic effect upon a diseased heart, enabling the heart to beat more slowly, powerfully and regularly without requiring more oxygen. * The much-loved foxglove of cottage gardens; flowers usually purple, but may be white, pink, or some...

* In their great first voyage to the New World, Christopher Columbus and his expedition were introduced to a plant whose smoke was called tobacco by the natives of Hispaniola. It is found only in cultivation, where it is the most commonly grown of all...

Bright green foliage (grayish woolly beneath) turns bronzish in fall. Pink flowers appear in early spring (April-May in St. Louis) before or at the time of the emergence of the foliage.

Some species, like Gardenia nitida and G. Tubifera , are obviously moth pollinated with their flattened corollas that open at the ends of 3-5" long arching narrow tubes. Gardenias make good container plants and can be enjoyed indoors where not winter...

Rainlilies know the difference between rainwater and the water hose. With arching to upright narrow strap-like foliage and excellent durability rainlilies make a good choice for the front of the perennial border.

The Grand Duke of Tuscany Sambac Jasmine is also known as Flore-Pleno and Rose Jasmine. Strongly fragrant, long-lasting, very double, 1.5", white blooms never seem to let you down when you are looking for something fragrant in the garden or greenhouse...

* A perennial herb with fragrant white, pink, or lavender flowers in loose, flat-topped clusters, smelling vaguely of heliotrope; leaves sometimes used to flavor tobacco; rhizome used as a sedative; sometimes rather weedy; native to Europe and Asia, naturalized...

Buttonbush is generally found growing near streams, ponds, ditches and other consistently moist sites. The Buttonbush is a vigorous, medium-sized to large growing, deciduous shrub that does best in consistently moist soils with most of a day of sunlight.

Clusters of 2" white flowers that are held on long slender tubes release their heady perfume at night, but a curious nose may find fragrance almost any time of day. The Lady of the Night is considered to flower most heavily in spring but it may be found...

It works by doubling the chromosome number. * The name "naked lady" comes from the fact that the flowers emerge from the ground long after the leaves have died back. * Contrary to what the name suggests, neither a crocus nor the source of saffron; foliage...

* Securinega suffruticosa (Pall.) Rehder = Flueggea suffruticosa (Pall.) Baill. * Habitats: Woodland Garden Sunny Edge; Dappled Shade; Shady Edge. * This plant is commonly used in Chinese herbalism, where it is considered to be one of the 50 fundamental...