Regional Picks: Best New Finds – South

1.Red Yucca

Name:Hesperaloe parviflora

Usda Hardiness Zones:5 to 10

Size:3 to 5feet tall ; 2 to 4feet extensive

condition : Full Lord’s Day to fond shade

This plant is far from new , but it was inaugurate to me last year . The industrial plant ’s range had me in awe : not just the range where it can grow , but also the divers pollinators it attract , the many soils it can live in , and the uttermost heat and cold it can take . This is genuinely an adaptable , low - upkeep plant that you will require to hang out with . Mix it in with some beautiful sess and succulents , fox down some rocks , and — boom!—you have a bully , broken - care garden . The blossom stalk is 3 to 5 feet tall , with an architectural flair .

2.Archangel Cherry Red Angelonia

Name:Angelonia angustifolia‘Balarcher’

Zones:10 to 11;annual in insensate climates

Size:12 to 14 inches tall , 10 to 12inches broad

term : Full sun ; well - drain soil

This beautiful bedding works has typically been available in cool shade of white , pink , and purple , so it ’s exciting to see this raging new cherry - violent variety available in 2017 . Angelonia , also get it on as summer snapdragon , is a fecund bloomer throughout the summer , and the Archangel series has the heavy blooms of all the angelonias . It is drought and heat tolerant , with no deadheading ask . If you think back to irrigate deep until the works establishes and fertilise once a month , you will not be disappointed in the performance of this beauty . Angelonia look great in mixed pots , window boxwood , and mass plantings .

3.Purple Daydream®Dwarf Loropetalum

Name:Loropetalum chinense‘PPI’

Zones:7 to 10

Size:2 to 3 feet tall ; 3 to 4 invertebrate foot blanket

Conditions : Full Dominicus to fond refinement ; fertile , well - drained , acidic soil

Purple Daydream ® was introduced by Southern Living Plant Collections in 2016 . It has beautiful maroon leaves that are evergreen and reddish - pink laciniate bloom that flower from mid - March to mid - April . This dwarf cultivar would be excellent for an leisurely - care groundwork planting , low hedging , or earth cover . The farther south you live , the more important it is to plant in morning Lord’s Day and afternoon shade to avoid scorch . What ’s the difference between this and all of the other imperial - leafage loropetalums ? The answer is sizing , and there is a size of it for any landscape .

4.Scentamazing™Gardenia

Name:Gardenia jasminoides‘Leetwo’

Size:3½feet tall and 4 feet wide

circumstance : Full Lord’s Day to part shade;well - drain territory

New for 2017 , this summary gardenia has a simple flower with a strongly mellisonant smell . We are so used to double - flower gardenia that it ’s dainty to see the simpleness of a single flower again . ‘ Leetwo ’ blossom in belated springtime and reblooms from late summertime into fall . Fertilize in former leaping before bud set , prune for mould after its first spring blooms , piss when it ’s teetotal , and spread mulch around the roots during winter months . Other than that , this plant is downhearted maintenance . It also attracts bees and butterflies . Nothing suppose summer like the fragrance of a gardenia on a hot Southern night .

Susan L. Capley is didactics director at the New Orleans Botanical Garden .

Photos : # 1 and # 2 , millettephotomedia.com ; # 3 and # 4 , courtesy of Southern Living ® Plant Collection

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