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The first species to be collected for Western gardens, Weigela florida, distributed in North China, Korea and Manchuria, was found by Robert Fortune and imported to England in 1845. [4] Following the opening of Japan to Westerners, several Weigela species and garden versions were discovered by European plant-hunters in the 1850s and 1860s ...
A common name is rocktrumpet. [5] Mandevilla species are native to the Southwestern United States, [5] Mexico, Central America, the West Indies, and South America. Many originate from the Serra dos Órgãos forests in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil. The genus was named after Henry Mandeville (1773-1861), a British diplomat and gardener. [6]
One of their best known books was the Sunset Western Garden Book, a compendium of plants suited for the various climatic zones and microclimates of the Western United States, and gardening guidelines for the region. [2] The book has had numerous editions, including: Sunset Western Garden Book, edited by Kathleen Norris Brenzel, 2007
Heliopsis is a genus of herbaceous flowering plants in the family Asteraceae, [2] [3] native to dry prairies in North and South America. [4] The sunflower-like composite flowerheads are usually yellow, up to 8 cm (3 in) in diameter, and are borne in summer. Species are commonly called ox-eye or oxeye. [5]
Gilia is a genus of flowering plants in the Polemoniaceae family and is related to phlox. [2] It includes 39 species native to the Americas, ranging from British Columbia to Texas and northern Mexico, and to Ohio, in North America, and from Ecuador and Peru to southern Chile and Argentina in South America. [1]
Toxicodendron diversilobum is extremely variable in growth habit and leaf appearance. It grows as a dense 0.5–4 metres (1 + 1 ⁄ 2 –13 feet) tall shrub in open sunlight, a treelike vine 3–9 m (10–30 ft) and may be more than 30 m (100 ft) long with an 8–20 centimetres (3 + 1 ⁄ 4 – 7 + 3 ⁄ 4 inches) trunk, as dense thickets in shaded areas, or any form in between.
Rudbeckia (/ r ʌ d ˈ b ɛ k i ə /) [4] is a plant genus in the Asteraceae or composite family. [5] [6] Rudbeckia flowers feature a prominent, raised central disc in black, brown shades of green, and in-between tones, giving rise to their familiar common names of coneflowers and black-eyed-susans.
Hymenocallis / ˌ h aɪ m ɪ n ə ˈ k æ l ɪ s / [7] (US) or / ˌ h aɪ m ɛ n oʊ ˈ k æ l ɪ s / [8] (UK) is a genus of flowering plants in the amaryllis family native to the Americas. [9]Hymenocallis contains more than 60 species of herbaceous bulbous perennials native to the southeastern United States, Mexico, Central America, the Caribbean, and northern South America.