The red Hurricane Lily is a late-summer-blooming perennial bulb in the amaryllis family native to China, Japan, Korea, and Nepal. It is usually found in shady, moist areas along slopes and rocky area near stream banks. This easy-to-grow bulb is described as hardy from zones 6a to 10b, but it can be damaged below 28 degrees F.

Liatris is a genus in the aster family native to North America with at least 40 species and many cultivars available. They all consist of disc flowers without rays on a spike that blooms from the top down in pink, purple, and white. The flower spike has a bottle-brush appearance. Some are showier than others.

Leopard Plant - Tractor Seat Plant - have daisy-like yellow flowers 1- to 2-in. across bloom atop thick, mostly leafless stalks that rise to 30 inches above the glossy, leathery, kidney-shaped, dark green foliage in late summer to fall.

Big-headed Aster is a perennial wildflower in the daisy family native only to North and South Carolina and Virginia where it grows in sandy soils, in dry woodland areas, along roadways and powerline rights of-way, and disturbed sites.

Carolina allspice is an erect-to-rounded deciduous native shrub in the sweetshrub family found in the Southeast in shady woodlands and along streambanks. Carolina allspice is valued for its fragrance, for attracting pollinators, and as a wildlife food source.

Cyclamen is a genus that contains more than 20 species of flowering plants in the primrose family. It is Cyclamen persicum, the Florist’s cyclamen, that is familiar as a Christmas and Valentine’s Day plant.

The infertile, fragrance-free flowers emerge apple green and mature as white inflorescences. Eventually, the flowers become light brown, persisting on the plant for several weeks. The flowers are commonly used, both fresh and dried, in floral arrangements.

Distylium is a genus of evergreen shrubs in the witch hazel family native to Asia. Hybrids in this genus are compact, coming in many sizes, and are very insect- and disease-resistant as well as tolerant of drought and heat. Some cultivars even grow well in wet soils.

Loropetalum, also called Chinese fringe flower, is a broad-leaved evergreen or semi-evergreen shrub or small tree of the witch hazel family. This low-maintenance shrub has a lovely rounded to vase-shaped, multi-stemmed habit with arching branches.

Despite its common names that include the words borage, mint, thyme and oregano, Cuban Oregano is not a borage, mint, thyme or even oregano (although they are all members of the same family – Lamiaceae). Some people call it "Vicks plant" because its camphor and menthol aroma -- particularly strong when the leaves are crushed -- is similar to the cough salve.

Eye-catching solitary hibiscus-like 1 ½ - to 2 ½-in. pink flowers appear on Seashore Mallow from July to October, with their nectar attracting pollinators like hummingbirds, butterflies and other pollinators.

Ginkgo is a long-lived, medium-maintenance, woody, deciduous tree native to south-central and southeast China. It is often called a living fossil because the ginkgo has existed for hundreds of millions of years. It arrived in North America in 1784, in Philadelphia, via England.