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Thunbergia
COMMON NAME: ► Thunbergia SCIENTIFIC NAME: ► Thunbergia gregorii and gibsonii GROWER HINTS: ►Perennial vine, easy and showy, blooms with large bright orange, yellow or terra cotta flowers. Flowers nearly all year along the coast, just in summer where the winters are...
Supertunia aka Petunia
COMMON NAME: ► Supertunia SCIENTIFIC NAME: ► Petunia hybrid GROWER HINTS: ►These petunias are all special hybrids. Extremely vigorous and fast growing, they can grow to 4 feet in length in one year. New varieties come out every year. Varieties with great big flowers...
Succulents
COMMON NAME: ► Succulent SCIENTIFIC NAME: ► succulent is the name for all of the cactus like plants that do not have spines. GROWER HINTS: ►Succulents are incredibly easy and rewarding. They can go weeks without water or attention. For best results and optimum looks...
Strawberry
COMMON NAME: ► Strawberry SCIENTIFIC NAME: ► Fragaria ananassa GROWER HINTS: ►Sweet and delicious Sequoia Strawberries in a basket to provide just enough for one or two berries a day. Your own personal taste treat. Give plenty of sun, water regularly and don’t forget...
Scaevola
COMMON NAME: ► Scaevola "New Wonder" SCIENTIFIC NAME: ► Scaevola aemula GROWERS HINTS: ► You are going to love this plant! (pronounced skuh-vo-luh) Introduced in 1991, New Wonder, is a spectacular blue or white bloomer. You can use this anywhere you use geraniums....
Salvia
COMMON NAME: ► Sage SCIENTIFIC NAME: ► Salvia GROWER HINTS: ►Look in any plant book and there are dozens of Salvias listed. Another name for Salvia is Sage, you know, like the herb. Garden Salvias are very easy to grow. Salvias usually like good drainage. Give them a...