Creekside Nursery
- Pindo Palm
- Latin Name: Butia capitata
- Height: 2 to 5 feet
- Pot Size: 3, 7, 15, 30 and 45 Gallon
- Sun Requirements: Full Sun to Partial Shade
- Flower Description: Magenta (Pink-Purple)
- Hardiness Zone#: 8 to 9b
- Bloom Period: Late Spring/Early Summer
- Mature Size: 12 to 15 feet
- Habitat: This plant is resistant to deer.
- Description:Pindo palms are sensative to moist cold freezes. Soil requirements are 6.6-7.5. Allow unblemished fruit to ripen.
- Queen Palm
- Latin Name: Syagrus romanzoffiana
- Height: 25 to 30 feet
- Width: 10 to 15 feet in canopy spread
- Pot Size: 15 Gallon, 30 Gallon
- Sun Requirements:
- Flower Type: Panicles
- Flower Description: Small white flowers
- Hardiness Zone#: 9b to 11
- Bloom Period: Spring
- Mature Size: 30 to 40 feet
- Habitat: Moderately drought tolerant; cold hardiness is limited to USDA zone 9. It is slow to recover from freeze damage and requires good soil drainage; moderately salt tolerant.
- Description:
Queen Palm is a rapid grower on rich moist acidic soils, but it much slower where drought, high pH soil, or periodic cold damage occurs. Maintenance pruning of spent fronts and fruit/flowers is required to maintain its landscape appeal.
- Firecracker Plant
- Latin Name: Russelia equisetiformis
- Pot Size: 1 and 3 Gallon
- Annual or Perennial: Perennial
- Sun Requirements: Full Sun to Partial Shade
- Flower Type: Tubular Clusters
- Flower Description: Red, Pale Yellow
- Hardiness Zone#: 9 to 12
- Bloom Period: Spring to Fall
- Mature Size: 24-36 inches
- Description:This plant is attractive to bees, butterflies and/or birds. Average Water Needs; Water regularly; do not overwater. Self-sows freely; deadhead if you do not want volunteer seedlings next season. Soil pH requirements: 6.1-7.8.
- Flame of the Woods
- Latin Name: Ixora coccinea 'Maui'
- Pot Size: 1 and 3 Gallon
- Evergreen or Deciduous?: Evergreen
- Sun Requirements: Full Sun
- Flower Type: Clusters
- Flower Description: Pink, Red, Orange, Yellow
- Hardiness Zone#: 9a to 10b
- Bloom Period: Late summer to Early Fall
- Mature Size: 36-48 inches
- Description:
Plant does not set seed; flowers are sterile, or plants will not come true from seed. Average water needs; water regularly; do not overwater. Soil pH requirements: 5.6-6.0. Maui is a dwarf evergreen shrub.
- Mexican Firebush
- Latin Name: Hamelia patens
- Pot Size: 1 and 3 Gallon
- Evergreen or Deciduous?: Evergreen
- Annual or Perennial: Perennial
- Sun Requirements: Full Sun
- Flower Type: Cluster
- Flower Description: Red-Orange
- Hardiness Zone#: 8a to 11
- Bloom Period: Late Spring to Early Winter
- Mature Size: 8-10 feet
- Description:
Foliage is evergreen. This plant is attractive to bees, butterflies and/or birds. Average water needs; water regularly; do not overwater. Soil pH requirements: 6.1-7.8
- Lily Toad
- Latin Name: Tricyrtis hirta
- Pot Size: 1 Gallon
- Annual or Perennial: Perennial
- Sun Requirements: Partial Shade
- Flower Type: Clusters
- Flower Description: Creamy white, purple spots
- Hardiness Zone#: 5a to 9b
- Bloom Period: Fall
- Description:
Toad lilies should be planted where they are easily seen. The plants are especially valuable for the shade garden and are among the few that bloom so late in the garden year. Toad lilies need a moist, fertile soil with a high humus content and partial shade, or the open shade found beneath trees. In higher elevations of Zone 5b where fall frosts arrive early, the plants must be protected.
- Yellow Buttercups
- Latin Name: Turnera ulmifolia
- Caliper: 24-36 inches
- Height: 24-36 inches
- Evergreen or Deciduous?: Evergreen
- Sun Requirements: Full Sun
- Flower Description: Bright Yellow
- Hardiness Zone#: 9a to 11
- Bloom Period: Blooms repeatedly
- Habitat: This plant is attractive to bees, butterflies and/or birds. Drought-tolerant; suitable for xeriscaping.
- Description:
Foliage is evergreen. Soil pH requirements: 6.1-7.8. Parts of plant are poisonous if ingested.
- Angel Mist
- Latin Name: Angelonia angustifolia 'Angel Mist Lavender Improved'
- Height: 12-18 inches
- Width: 12-15 inches
- Annual or Perennial: Annual
- Sun Requirements: Full Sun
- Flower Description: Purple, White/Near White
- Hardiness Zone#: 9a to 11
- Bloom Period: Mid Summer to Early Fall
- Description:
Plant does not set seed; flowers are sterile, or plants will not come true from seed. Average water needs; water regularly; do not overwater. Suitable for growing in container. Soil pH requirements: 5.6-6.5.
- Hardy Agave
- Latin Name: Agave gentryi ‘Jaws’
- Height: 3-4 feet
- Width: 4-6 feet
- Pot Size: 4” Pots/18 Flat, 5 Gallon
- Annual or Perennial: Perennial
- Sun Requirements: Full sun
- Hardiness Zone#: 7 to 10
- Mature Size: 4-6 feet
- Habitat: Plant in shade, especially in hotter climates
- Description:
Agave gentryi is a medium-sized rosette-forming succulent with glossy apple green leaves to 4 feet tall by 6 feet wide. This solitary growing plant has strong bud imprints and large teats and teeth along the leaf margin with the leaves folding together distinctively to resemble a mouth full of teeth, hence the name ‘Jaws’.
