A group of containers showcasing my favorite new angel’s trumpet Brugmansia ‘Super Nova’ with extremely long white trumpets just dripping with perfume in the evening hours. Tropical companions include Coleus ‘Colleen’ and Breynia disticha nana.
A Talavera trough of succulents is amazing with color, texture and architecture.
Our favorite ‘thriller’ tropical, Manihot esculenta ‘Variegated’ in our entrance garden bed. Carpeting the surrounding ground in orange-y hues is Acalypha wilkesiana ‘Cypress Elf’.
A shady container of our most fascinating tropical, Globba wintinii ‘Mauve Dancing Ladies’, in bloom from midsummer into autumn.
We shot this container in half sun at the Kemper Center for Home Gardening ( Missouri Botanical Garden in St. Louis). Pictured is Coleus ‘Alabama Sunset’ under planted with New Guinea impatiens.
A contemporary look includes a mixture of succulents potted in our cosmopolitan urns. Plantings include Kalanchoe ‘Big Mama’, Tulbaghia ‘Variegated’, Oxalis ‘Francis’, Callisia repens and a variety of echeveria.
A hanging wall basket lush with succulents, thriving in half-day sun.
A Talavera container of one of our most interesting tender plants, Dominican oregano. Great for seasoning, and a wonderful topiary subject thriving in heat and sun.
A shady container corner featuring Cissus discolor (Rex Begonia Vine), Tradescantia zebrina, and Coleus ‘Tiny Toes’.
A tropical bed filled with dreamy blue Plumbago capensis and the towering stems of Abelmoschus manihot (Sunset Hibiscus).
Visitors walk past tropical beds as they enter our nursery. This bed containers Pink Crystals Grass (Melinus nerviglumis), Vinca ‘Merry Go Round Red’ (a three footer!) and cleome.
A tropical bed in half sun at the Missouri Botanical Garden features Colocasia ‘Black Magic’, towering over impatiens and coleus.
Our entrance garden is packed with Talavera containers spilling over with tropicals. This group includes Agapanthus ‘Elaine’, Petunia ‘Aladdin Nautical Mixture’, agastache and salvias.
This bed in our retail area is always color themed in rose, pink and bronze. Seen here in beds:
Pennisetum ‘Jester’, Clerodendron bungei, Petunia ‘Vista Fuchsia’ and angelonia.
Our spectacular standard (topiary) of Tecoma ‘Gold Star’, only two years old, in bloom throughout summer. Xanthosoma ‘Lime Zinger’ lurks in the surrounding bed.
