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
- 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.
- Shasta Daisy
- Latin Name: Chrysanthemum x superbum
- Pot Size: 1 Gallon
- Annual or Perennial: Perennial
- Sun Requirements: Full Sun to Partial Shade
- Flower Type: Single
- Flower Description: White and Yello
- Hardiness Zone#: 5 to 8(9)
- Bloom Period: Summer to Frost
- Mature Size: 3 feet
- Habitat: Not drought tolerant. Great for cut flowers. Attracts butterflies.
- Description:Plants melt in Texas summer heat. Requires well drained soils. Can become chlorotic in high pH soils; tough and durable in USDA zones 5 to 7.
- Butterfly Weed
- Latin Name: Asclepias tuberosa
- Height: 1-3 feet
- Pot Size: 1 and 3 Gallon
- Annual or Perennial: Perennial
- Sun Requirements: Full Sun
- Flower Type: Single
- Flower Description: Yellow and Orange
- Hardiness Zone#: 3 to 9
- Bloom Period: Early Summer to Early Frost
- Mature Size: 1-3 feet
- Habitat: Drought tolerant; attracts bees and butterflies, particularly Monarch Butterflies.
- Description:Needs well drained soils. Best in butterfly garden or wildflower garden. Can be slow to bloom and hard to establish and transplant. Companion plants are Lantana spp., Flame Acanthus, and Agarito.
- Evolvulus Blue Daze
- Latin Name: Evolvulus nuttalianus
- Height: 4-8 inches
- Width: 2-3 feet
- Pot Size: 1 Gallon
- Annual or Perennial: Perennial
- Sun Requirements: Full sun to afternoon shade
- Flower Type: Single
- Flower Description: Blue to sky-blue
- Hardiness Zone#: 8 to 11
- Bloom Period: Spring to Frost
- Mature Size: 4-8 inches
- Habitat: Adatable to most soils and pH; very heat tolerant, but needs water; Responds well to fertilizer
- Description:
Semi-woody tropical perennial used as summer annual. Plant may over-winter in warmer climates. Can tolerate full sun but does best in afternoon shade.
- Rosemary
- Latin Name: Rosmarinus officinalis
- Height: 2-5 feet
- Pot Size: 1 and 3 Gallon
- Evergreen or Deciduous?: Evergreen
- Annual or Perennial: Perennial
- Sun Requirements: Full Sun
- Flower Type: Small Clusters
- Flower Description: Small, 1/2" long tubular flower. Light blue to light pink.
- Hardiness Zone#: 8 to 11
- Bloom Period: Spring to Summer
- Mature Size: 2-5 (7) feet
- Habitat: Perfect for herb garden, cottage garden, hedging, containers and raised beds
- Description:
Evergreen shrub with needle-like leaves and brilliant blue flowers. This beautiful herb, mostly used for seasoning dishes, is also used as ornamental plantings in the landscape. These plants thrive in warm, humid environments and cannot take extremely cold temperatures. Since rosemary cannot withstand winters below 30 degrees F, it’s often better when growing rosemary plants to put them in containers, which can be placed in ground and easily moved indoors during winter.
-Tuscan Blue (upright form)
-Prostrata (trailing form)
- Pride of Barbados
- Latin Name: Caesalpinia pulcherrima
- Height: 3-6 feet
- Pot Size: 3 Gallon
- Annual or Perennial: Perennial
- Sun Requirements: Full Sun
- Flower Type: Cluster
- Flower Description: Yellow, Orange to Red
- Hardiness Zone#: 8b
- Mature Size: 3-6 feet
- Habitat: Favorite plant for butterflies and hummingbirds
- Description:Best if used as a herbaceous perennial. Leaves remain evergreen where temperature permits. Growth habits are variable; typically develops into an irregular shrub 3-6'H in a single growning season.
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