Cool Plants
Here are some plants that we have in stock and that we think looks great in your garden right now. Want to know more about these plants? Visit our plant database.
Water Lily ‘Sun Fire’
Sunfire waterlily is a newer peach waterlily that will do fine in containers but shows its best color as most lilies do in an earth bottom pond where it can stretch its legs (or rhizome) and grow to full potential. It has flowers that are pink to yellow at the center with green pads. It has the same coloration as Nymphaea ‘Pink Grapefruit’ but with much stronger saturation in the colors.
- Light Need: Shade Tolerant
- Water Need: Pond
Mimulus ‘Monkey Flower’
The Magic series is by far the first Monkey Flower to bloom each year, with masses of showy 1¾- to 2-inch blooms in 16 luscious color combinations. The soft, satiny feel of the petals and their wide-open trumpet shape may remind you of Petunias, but the color intensity and markings are more like Pansies!
The key to monkeyflowers is soil, which should be kept evenly moist yet very well drained.
Lewisia Cotyledon
Vivid golden foliage on large open plants can be used for contrast and to brighten darker shade gardens. Traditional heart shaped pink flowers dangle from long wands above the leaves. Perfect for woodland gardens and under larger shade trees.
- Light need: Full Sun to Part Shade
- Plant characteristic: Herbaceous
Osmundastrum cinnamomeum “Cinnamon Fern”
Dramatic architectural form and color makes a striking focal point near the edge of water features. Large 4-foot long fronds are blue-green in summer with new growth covered in white hairs. Fertile fronds are a contrasting cinnamon brown.
- Light need: Filtered sun
- Plant characteristic: Herbaceous
Hippuris vulgaris ‘Mare’s Tail’
Common mare’s-tail looks like a robust green bottlebrush growing in patches primarily in the shallow areas of streams, ponds, and lakes or on wet muddy shores when water levels drop. This plant is characterized by unbranched stems, abundant whorled leaves, and inconspicuous flowers. The leaves and stems vary in form depending on whether they are growing underwater or are emergent. The underwater plant portions are limp, flexible, and have very long leaves. Emergent portions are stiff and erect, with short narrow leaves.
- Light need: Full Sun
- Plant characteristic: Herbaceous
Zebra Rush
For those who love the variegation of Zebra Grass, Scirpus tabernaemontani ‘Zebrinus’ offers that same color combination in a rush to complement the other bog and marsh plants in the water garden. Zebra Rush has tapered tubular stems that are horizontally banded with green and white and grows to 30″. It performs best in wet soils and full sun.
- Light need: Full Sun to Partial Shade
- Plant characteristic: Ornamental grass
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