Scientific name: Phormium tenax

Common name: New Zealand flax

Family name: Xanthorrhoeaceae

USDA Hardiness Zone: 9

Mature height and spread: 1-6 feet height, 1-3 feet spread

Water Use:  Medium

Soil Requirement: good drainage

Leaf arrangement: Colorful, evergreen

Flower/cone/fruit description(s): rarely flowers

Quick ID description: Zone 9 plant; temporary bedding plant; close to the water; need sun, good drainage

Scientific name: Hebe franciscana

Common name: Francisca hebe

Family name: Plantaginaceae

Mature height and spread: Medium, 50-180cm height

Form: rounded multi-stemmed bush

Soil Requirement: does not tolerate very dry or very wet soils

Flower/cone/fruit description(s): white flowers, green-white foliage

Suitable uses: suitable for container growing

Quick ID description: shrub,evergreen; giant plant; need good drainage, not shade overhead; the bigger leaf Hebe, the less hardy Hebe, suitable for container growing

Scientific name: Bergen crassifolia

Common name: pig squeak

Family name: Saxifragaceae

USDA Hardiness Zone: zone 4 hardy plant

Mature height and spread: 1-1.5 feet height, 0.75-1 feet spread

Sun: part shade to full shade

Water Use: Medium

Flower/cone/fruit description(s): bloom time is from April to May, pink

Suitable uses: ground cover, tolerate drought and heavy shade

Quick ID description: thick leaves; evergreen ground cover; flower lasts a month when it is cool; zone 4 hardy plant; one stem grown together; tough long lived, low maintain plant

Scientific name: Anemone hupehensis

Common name: Japanese anemone

Family name: Ranunculaceae

USDA Hardiness Zone: zone 4 plant

Mature height and spread: 1.5 – 2.5 feet height, 1 – 1.5 feet spread

Sun: full sun to part shade

Water Use: Medium

Soil Requirement: low maintenance

Flower/cone/fruit description(s): August – September bloom time, pink

Quick ID description: compound leaves; flower- late summer August – September; cultivated; double flowers, typically white, pink flowers; aggressive; this plant is good to deal with industry area where has large room

Scientific name: Hesperantha coccinea

Common name: river lily

Family name: Iridaceae

USDA Hardiness Zone: zone 8 plant

Mature height and spread: 0.5 – 1 meters height, 0.1 – 0.5 meters spread

Sun: full sun

Water Use: moisture but well drain

Soil Requirement: moisture, well drain

Flower/cone/fruit description(s): red, occasionally pink or white, 6 petals

Quick ID description: flowering Oct-Nov-Dec; Zone 8 plant, not cold; successful garden plants; white/pink selections

Scientific name: Gentiana asclepiadea

Common name: willow gentian

Family name: Gentianaceae

USDA Hardiness Zone:

Mature height and spread: 0.5 – 1 meters height, 0.1 – 0.5 meters spread

Sun: part shade, mind a little bit shade

Soil Requirement: moisture but well drain; salty, rich soil

Flower/cone/fruit description(s):  purple and blue flowers, 5 petals

Suitable uses: like wet areas, grows where willow grows

Quick ID description: purple and blue flowers, 5 petals; likes wet areas; grows where willow grows; generated garden conditions; mind a little bit shade; every year gets bigger; works well with pink; soil- salty,moisture,rich; better not grow with aggressive plants; nice color, very attractive; die right the ground in the winter

Scientific name: Olearia haastii

Common name: daisy bush

Family name: Asteraceae

USDA Hardiness Zone: 7 – 10

Mature height and spread: 1.5 – 2.5 meters height, 2.5 – 4 meters spread

Sun: full sun

Soil Requirement:  moisture, well drain

Suitable uses: can be evergreen shrubs, small trees or herbaceous perennials, grow in well-drained soil in full sun

Quick ID description: woody; near ocean zone 8 plant; stem- a little bit sticky; parking lot plant; south side rock wall

Scientific name: Perovskia atriplicifolia

Common name: Russian sage

Family name: Lamiaceae

USDA Hardiness Zone: 5 to 9

Mature height and spread: 3 – 5 feet height, 2 – 4 feet spread

Sun: full sun

Water Use: dry to medium

Soil Requirement: dry to medium

Flower/cone/fruit description(s): bloom time is from July to October, color is lavender/blue

Suitable uses: easily grown in average, dry to medium, well-drained soils in full sun; contrasts well with both pink and yellow perennials

Quick ID description: smell; sub-shrub, woody base; leaves finely divided; more or less evergreen; tall sub-shrub; ideal plant in highway; good be seen at distance

Scientific name: Agastache foeniculum

Common name: anise hyssop

Family name: Lamiaceae

USDA Hardiness Zone: zone 4 – 8 plant

Mature height and spread: 2 – 4 feet height, 1.5 – 3 feet spread

Sun: full sun to part shade

Water Use: dry to medium

Soil Requirement: better with moisture soil

Leaf: Fragrant 

Flower/cone/fruit description(s): bloom time is from June to September, blooming form Lavender to Purple

Suitable uses: Herb, Naturalize

Quick ID description: well behavior, stands up, great color, flower long period, mint family, not invasive, better with moisture soil

Scientific name: Clarkia amoena

Common name: farewell- to- spring

Family name: Onagraceae

USDA Hardiness Zone: zone 2 – 11

Mature height and spread: 2 – 2.5 feet height, 0.75 -1 feet spread

Sun: full sun

Water Use: Medium

Soil Requirement: well-drain soil in full sun

Flower/cone/fruit description(s): bloom time from June to July; red to pink to Lavender

Suitable uses: Low maintenance

Quick ID description: amoena meaning beautiful; native herbaceous plant; bee like plant, not hummingbird plant; lavender purple; native wild flower; flower end of spring, beginning of summer