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Dig into the joy of gardening with friendly tips, clever tricks, and expert advice — helping your plants thrive and your patch of paradise grow beautifully, no matter your experience level!
Discover New Plants
Discover extraordinary, unusual, and beautiful plants from around the world — each with growing and care tips to help you cultivate these weird and wonderful species in your own space.
Cyperus papyrus
Papyrus
A statuesque aquatic sedge with tall triangular stems topped by airy, firework-like umbels.
- Full sun, Partial shade
- 2–4 m (7–13 ft)
- H1c · Zone 9
Bergenia ciliata
Fringed elephant’s ears
A low, spreading perennial with large softly hairy leaves and white spring flowers that age pink.
- Full sun, Partial shade
- 20–45 cm (8–18 in)
- H4 · Zone 5
Persicaria filiformis
Tovara knotweed
An airy perennial with red-marked green leaves and slender coral-red flower spikes from summer into autumn.
- Full sun, Partial shade
- 0.8–1.4 m (3–5 ft)
- H6 · Zone 5
Begonia ‘Benitochiba’
Benitochiba rex begonia
A striking rex begonia with deeply divided silver leaves, dark green veins and vivid pink young…
- Partial shade
- 20–45 cm (8–18 in)
- H1b · Zone 10
Aloe polyphylla
Spiral aloe
A remarkable aloe whose fleshy toothed leaves form a precise clockwise or anticlockwise spiral.
- Full sun
- 20–50 cm (8–20 in)
- H3 · Zone 8
Hosta ‘Empress Wu’
Giant plantain lily
An immense hosta with heavily veined blue-green leaves and tall spikes of pale violet flowers.
- Partial shade
- 1–1.5 m (3–5 ft)
- H7 · Zone 3
