Slow-growing and refined
Red yucca is native to the Chihuahuan Desert country of west and central Texas and neighboring northeastern Mexico
finely toothed leaves about three inches long
the blue wood sedge knits into low colonies along a shaded path
so that a single mature plant reads as a green fountain rather than a shrub
Lyonia lucida SEO Slow-growing and refinedLyonia lucida, the fetterbush, is one of the quiet evergreen pleasures of the Southeastern wetlands, a shrub of upright, arching stems clothed in glossy, leathery leaves. Look closely and each smooth leaf shows a fine vein running just inside the margin, a neat identifying mark, and the species name lucida, Latin for shining, salutes that polished surface. The common name comes from the dense, tangling thickets the shrub forms in the wild, said to