Common name:Marguerite Daisy, Paris Daisy
Botanical name:Chrysanthemum frutescens
This short-lived, fast growing rounding shrub grows waist high, smoothered with daisy flowers. It's best to replant every couple years; propagate by tip cuttings in the early spring.
Common name:Amazing Red Flax
Botanical name:Phormium 'Amazing Red'
Phormium 'Amazing Red' is an evergreen perennial. It is a 2' tall, dramatic plant composed of many swordlike, stiffly vertical leaves in a fan pattern. Leaves are dark reddish brown in color.
Common name:Myers Asparagus
Botanical name:Asparagus densiflorus 'Myers'
An evergreen groundcover, the 'Myers' also makes an excellent hanging basket plant when larger in size. Its formal looking fronds have an even, spiral arrangement of leaflets. It is damaged by severe frosts, and looks best with at least occasional watering.
Common name:Pork And Beans
Botanical name:Sedum rubrotinctum
This ground cover will grow less than 1' tall and has small leaves that vary in color and are brownish bronze in the fall. Red and yellow flowers will bloom in spring and summer.
Designer: Billy Goodnick and Owen Dell
Photographer: Billy Goodnick and Owen Dell
Maintain a two to four inch layer of mulch on the soil surface to reduce weeds, infiltrate rain water, and reduce compaction.
Attract, or buy beneficial insects such as ladybugs and lacewings to control pest outbreaks in your garden.
