Creekside Nursery
- Colocasia Elephant Ear
- Latin Name: Colocasia esculenta
- Pot Size: 3 Gallon
- Annual or Perennial: Perennial
- Sun Requirements: Full Sun to Partial Shade
- Hardiness Zone#: 8 to 11
- Mature Size: 4-6 feet
- Habitat: Best in wetlands. Can be used as tropical accent or container plant.
- Description:Plant has heart shaped leaves. Plants tend to burn in full sun in Texas unless wet soils and shallow water are present. East to grow with fast growth rate and great textured foliage.
- Cuphea Allison or Mexican Heather
- Latin Name: Cuphea hyssopifolia
- Pot Size: 1 Gallon
- Annual or Perennial: Perennial
- Sun Requirements: Full Sun to Partial Shade
- Flower Type: Single
- Flower Description: Trumpet shape flower; Lavender, Pink and White
- Hardiness Zone#: 9 to 11
- Bloom Period: Spring to Frost
- Mature Size: 6-12 inches
- Habitat: Attractive flowers; long bloom period. PLant is heat and drought tolerant, and daptable to many soils.
- Description:
Tall mounding form that spreads two times its height. Excellent foliage texture and color. Durable and site adaptable.
Cuphea 'Batface' - purple flower; 1-2'H to 2-3'S
Cuphea 'David Veridy' - red/orange flower; 18-30"H
- Flame Acanthus
- Latin Name: Anisacanthus quadrifidus var. Wrightii
- Height: 3-4 feet
- Pot Size: 3 Gallon
- Sun Requirements: Full Sun
- Flower Type: Single
- Flower Description: Orange, Red-orange or Yellow-orange blooms
- Hardiness Zone#: 7
- Bloom Period: Early summer to Frost
- Habitat: Favorite plant for butterflies and hummingbirds. Adaptable to soils as long as well drained; high pH tolerant; excellent heat and droght tollerant; salt tolerant.
- Description:Best to trim in winter and treat as herbaceous perennial. Can be used in xeriscapes and informal perennial borders or container grown.
- Boxwood
- Latin Name: Buxus microphylla or Buxus sempervirens
- Height: 2-4 feet, 4-8 feet
- Pot Size: 1 and 3 Gallon
- Evergreen or Deciduous?: Evergreen
- Sun Requirements: Full Sun
- Hardiness Zone#: 6 to 9
- Mature Size: Growth habits are dependent on species and culitvars - Microphylla: 2-4 feet; Sempervirens: 4-8 feet
- Habitat: Best grown in moist, well drained acidic, high organic matter soils. Best if shaded from afternoon sun.
- Description:Can be used as formal/informal hedges, topiaries or foundation plantings. Suffers from winter cold easily - foliage can turn yellow or brown in northern regions.
- Pineapple Guava
- Latin Name: Acca sellowiana
- Pot Size: 3 and 15 Gallon
- Evergreen or Deciduous?: Evergreen
- Sun Requirements: Good in Partial Shade
- Hardiness Zone#: 8 to 11
- Mature Size: 8-11 feet
- Habitat: Use in well drained soils; pH adaptable, although turns chlorotic in high pH sites; salt tolerant.
- Description:Evergreen shrub. Glossy green to blue-green or gray-green foliage with white pubescence beneath. Can grow to 8-11'H in ideal conditions.
- Abelia Edward Goucher
- Latin Name: Abelia x grandiflora
- Height: 3-4 feet
- Pot Size: 3 Gallon
- Evergreen or Deciduous?: Evergreen
- Sun Requirements: Full Sun
- Flower Type: Cluster
- Flower Description: White to Pale-pink blooms
- Hardiness Zone#: 7 to 11
- Bloom Period: Spring to Frost
- Habitat: Attractive, dark glossy leaves with long blooming season.
- Description:Can be used as foundation plantsing or formal/informal hedges. This is a hybrid species between Abelia chinensis and Abelia uniflora. This is the hardiest of all Abelia spp.
- Copper Plant
- Latin Name: Acalypha wilkesiana
- Height: 3-5 feet
- Width: 3-4 feet
- Pot Size: 3 Gallon
- Annual or Perennial: Annual
- Sun Requirements: Full Sun
- Flower Description: Catkin-like spike
- Hardiness Zone#: 9 to 11
- Mature Size: 6 feet
- Habitat: Heat tolerant as long as well watered.
- Description:Most commonly used as summer annual. Can be used as herbaceous perennial or wood shrub in warmer climates. Does well in well drained soil. Can be used as bedding plant, tropical accent, short annual hedge or screen, container plant or indoor plant.
- Artemisia Powis Castle
- Latin Name: Artemisia 'Powis Castle'
- Height: 12-18 inches
- Pot Size: 1 Gallon
- Annual or Perennial: Perennial
- Sun Requirements: Full Sun to Partial Shade
- Flower Type: Single
- Flower Description: Small, daisy-like; Yellow
- Hardiness Zone#: 7 to 9
- Mature Size: 12-18 inches
- Habitat: Heat tolerant, but does not handle humidity well or extreme heat.
- Description:Resumes vigorous growth in coooler temperatures of late summer. Requires well drained soil. Can be used as an edging plant, textural or silver foliage accent.
- Purple Coneflower
- Latin Name: Echinacea magnus
- Height: 3-10 inches
- Pot Size: 1 Gallon
- Annual or Perennial: Perennial
- Sun Requirements: Full Sun to Slight Shade
- Flower Type: Single
- Flower Description: Composite; Purple, Pink and White
- Hardiness Zone#: 4 to 8
- Bloom Period: Late Spring to Early Summer
- Mature Size: 24 inches
- Habitat: Requires well drained soils, tolerates drought, alkaline soils and hot summers.
- Description:Very coarse textured plant. Can be used as perennial border, cottage gardens, wildflower mix and cut flower garden. Good in combination with Salvias, Rock Rose and perennial Verbenas.
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