Coleções

Grupos de plantas com um propósito

Cada coleção reúne plantas que fazem sentido juntas em um lugar específico: o que fazem, onde se encaixam e como dispô-las sem partir de um canteiro em branco.
Annabelle hydrangea (Hydrangea arborescens 'Annabelle') showing large white ball-shaped flower clusters on a rounded deciduous shrub.
Coral bells (Heuchera 'Marmalade') showing a low mound of ruffled coppery-orange foliage characteristic of the Heuchera villosa-derived hybrids.
Coleção · 2 plantas
Base para sombra clara
Um plantio de meia-sombra com estrutura arbustiva e contraste baixo de folhagem.
Hortênsia Annabelle
Heucheras
A mature oakleaf hydrangea (Hydrangea quercifolia) in flower - a broad, mounded multi-stemmed shrub studded with upright white panicles above coarse, deeply lobed oak-shaped leaves.
Woodland phlox (Phlox divaricata) showing five-petaled pale lavender-blue flowers on slender erect stems above a low spreading mat of foliage.
Wild columbine (Aquilegia canadensis) whole plant in rocky-ledge habitat, the airy blue-green compound foliage hung with nodding red-and-yellow spurred flowers.
Foamflower (Tiarella cordifolia) showing characteristic frothy white spring flower spikes above heart-shaped foliage.
+2
Coleção · 6 plantas
Borda de mata em meia-sombra
Um plantio de meia-sombra ou sombra clara para sol da manhã ou luz filtrada: nativas de borda de mata do leste norte-americano com floração de primavera, folhagem de temporada e estrutura de samambaia + arbusto.
Hortênsia-folha-de-carvalho
Flox-de-bosque
Aquilégia-selvagem
Flor-de-espuma
Coral-veludo
Samambaia-de-natal
English lavender (Lavandula angustifolia) as a broadly mounded, dense subshrub of fine silvery blue-green aromatic foliage.
Purple coneflower (Echinacea purpurea) in bloom, showing pinkish-purple ray petals around a brown-domed central cone on an erect stem.
A full clump of black-eyed Susan (Rudbeckia fulgida 'Goldsturm') in a garden bed, showing the dense mounded foliage base topped with golden, dark-centered daisies on branching stems.
Switchgrass (Panicum virgatum) mature clump in the green growing season, its upright vase-shaped habit topped by the airy, diffuse open panicles diagnostic of the species.
Coleção · 4 plantas
Bordadura ensolarada para polinizadores
Uma bordadura ensolarada e durável, com floração de verão, cabeças de sementes e textura vertical no inverno.
Lavanda-inglesa
Equinácea-roxa
Rudbéquia-alaranjada
Capim-dos-pampas-americano
A mature butterfly weed (Asclepias tuberosa) clump in a garden bed, showing its bushy mounded habit with several flat-topped orange umbels above a dense whorl of narrow leaves.
Common milkweed (Asclepias syriaca) mature clump in flower, showing its stout upright reddish stems, broad opposite leaves, and pink-mauve flower umbels with young green pods.
Purple coneflower (Echinacea purpurea) in bloom, showing pinkish-purple ray petals around a brown-domed central cone on an erect stem.
Wild bergamot (Monarda fistulosa) clump in an open meadow, its several upright square stems each topped by a ragged lavender flower head over toothed mint-family foliage.
+5
Coleção · 9 plantas
Bordadura nativa para polinizadores (leste dos EUA)
Uma faixa nativa de floração contínua para polinizadores do leste da América do Norte. Vai da primavera até a geada, com plantas hospedeiras e nectaríferas para monarcas, abelhas nativas, beija-flores e lepidópteros especialistas. Little bluestem fornece a gramínea de matriz e hospedeiro para Hesperiidae.
Erva-das-borboletas
Algodão-de-seda-comum
Equinácea-roxa
Bergamota-selvagem
Monarda-escarlate
Capim-barba-azul-pequeno
Erva-de-joe-pye-doce
Girassol-do-pântano
Áster-azul-liso
A green-season spicebush (Lindera benzoin) in its native woodland understory, showing the loose, open, multi-stemmed branching and alternate obovate leaves.
Wild ginger (Asarum canadense) - a clump rising from a mossy forest floor, paired heart-shaped leaves on fuzzy petioles arching over the maroon jug-shaped flowers nestled at ground level.
Bloodroot (Sanguinaria canadensis) showing characteristic white multi-petaled flower wrapped in a rounded leaf.
Virginia bluebells (Mertensia virginica) showing pendulous pink-to-blue bell-shaped flower clusters above smooth blue-green foliage.
+3
Coleção · 7 plantas
Bosque de sombra e sub-bosque
Uma comunidade de chão de mata para sombra profunda sob copa fechada: arbusto de sub-bosque, coberturas de solo expansivas, efêmeras de primavera e uma samambaia grande, nativas do leste norte-americano que esperam pouca luz e solo com serrapilheira.
Arbusto-do-tempero-do-norte
Gengibre-selvagem
Sanguinária
Campainhas-azuis-da-virgínia
Maçã-de-maio
Samambaia-avestruz
Flor-de-espuma
Lettuce (Lactuca sativa) 'Lollo Bionda' cultivar showing loose-leaf rosette of light-green ruffled foliage.
Arugula (Eruca vesicaria) growing as a low basal rosette of irregular, pinnately-lobed green leaves with a large terminal lobe and several small lateral lobes.
Spinach (Spinacia oleracea) growing as a low basal rosette of broad, dark-green, slightly savoyed leaves.
A clump of sweet basil (Ocimum basilicum) in garden soil, showing the upright, branching bushy habit and terminal flower spikes of a maturing plant.
+4
Coleção · 8 plantas
Canteiro de saladas e ervas
Um canteiro compacto de folhas para cortes repetidos e ervas culinárias para colher perto da cozinha: folhas de clima fresco, manjericão de estação quente e uma base de ervas perenes.
Alface
Rúcula
Espinafre
Manjericão genovês
Coentro
Endro
Salsa
Cebolinha-francesa
English lavender (Lavandula angustifolia) as a broadly mounded, dense subshrub of fine silvery blue-green aromatic foliage.
Rosemary (Salvia rosmarinus) showing dense needle-like aromatic foliage on woody branches.
Garden sage (Salvia officinalis) showing gray-green velvety foliage + spike of lavender summer flowers.
Oregano (Origanum vulgare) showing spreading mat of small aromatic leaves + pink-white flower clusters.
+2
Coleção · 6 plantas
Comestíveis mediterrâneos tolerantes à seca
Uma paleta comestível de baixa irrigação, com ervas culinárias e uma videira resistente para locais quentes, secos e ensolarados. Plantas de origem mediterrânea prosperam com pouco cuidado; o principal risco é água demais, não água de menos.
Lavanda-inglesa
Alecrim
Sálvia
Orégano
Tomilho-comum
Uva-raposa
Pineapple (Ananas comosus) - whole-plant habit growing in the ground, the dense ground-level rosette of long, stiff, channeled spiny-margined leaves bearing a single fruit on a short central stalk.
Papaya (Carica papaya) - large, deeply palmately-lobed leaves clustered at the top of the stem, single unbranched, soft fibrous trunk (palm-like habit), cluster of green oval fruits borne directly on the upper trunk below the leaf crown.
Cacao (Theobroma cacao) - cauliflorous orange-ripening pods borne directly on the woody stem, large oblong-elliptic leaves with prominent venation, slender understory treelet habit growing in shaded forest/plantation.
Guava (Psidium guajava) - elliptic-oblong leaves with strongly impressed, prominent pinnate venation typical of guava, opposite, decussate leaf arrangement on a slender reddish-tinged young stem, upright woody seedling/sapling habit with new growth flushing at the shoot tip.
+2
Coleção · 6 plantas
Copa comestível tropical e pátio
Uma paleta comestível sem geada para jardins subtropicais úmidos e tropicais: copa frutífera, cultivos de sub-bosque, raízes comestíveis e plantas de pátio boas para recipientes.
Abacaxi
Mamão
Cacau
Goiaba
Mandioca
Açafrão-da-terra
Shagbark hickory (Carya ovata) as a mature tree in open lawn, showing the upright single trunk and irregular, rounded crown.
Pawpaw (Asimina triloba) - a mature multi-stemmed understory tree in full summer leaf, showing its broad, rounded, suckering crown of large drooping leaves.
Canadian serviceberry (Amelanchier canadensis) in full spring bloom, with drooping clusters of five-petaled white flowers along branches before leaf emergence.
A mature highbush blueberry (Vaccinium corymbosum) shrub in a botanical garden, showing the dense, rounded multi-stem habit hung with ripening blue berries.
+4
Coleção · 8 plantas
Floresta comestível em camadas
Uma policultura comestível empilhada verticalmente: copa com nozes, sub-bosque frutífero, camada de arbustos de bagas, herbáceas e cobertura de solo para o leste temperado da América do Norte.
Nogueira-de-casca-escamosa
Ariticum-americano
Amelânquier-do-canadá
Mirtilo arbustivo alto
Amora-preta-de-Allegheny
Cebolinha-francesa
Salsa
Morango-silvestre
Switchgrass (Panicum virgatum) mature clump in the green growing season, its upright vase-shaped habit topped by the airy, diffuse open panicles diagnostic of the species.
Little bluestem (Schizachyrium scoparium) clumps in a garden bed, showing the species' upright, fine-textured blue-green vase-shaped growing-season habit.
Common milkweed (Asclepias syriaca) mature clump in flower, showing its stout upright reddish stems, broad opposite leaves, and pink-mauve flower umbels with young green pods.
A full clump of black-eyed Susan (Rudbeckia fulgida 'Goldsturm') in a garden bed, showing the dense mounded foliage base topped with golden, dark-centered daisies on branching stems.
+4
Coleção · 8 plantas
Nativas resilientes ao aquecimento (leste da América do Norte)
Uma paleta de nativas do leste norte-americano que apoia polinizadores, com amplas faixas de rusticidade e distribuições nativas extensas. Feita para jardineiros que querem um plantio capaz de lidar com zonas mais quentes sem abrir mão do valor para a fauna.
Capim-dos-pampas-americano
Capim-barba-azul-pequeno
Algodão-de-seda-comum
Rudbéquia-alaranjada
Bergamota-selvagem
Erva-de-joe-pye-doce
Rudbéquia-de-folha-recortada
Áster-da-Nova-Inglaterra
Tamarind (Tamarindus indica) - single woody trunk supporting a tree habit with a broad, spreading crown, fine, feathery alternate-pinnate foliage of many small leaflets, dense green canopy showing the evergreen, leafy crown form.
Baobab (Adansonia digitata) - massive swollen water-storing bottle-trunk with a large hollow at the base, sparse crown of stout tapering branches fanning out like roots in the air (the 'upside-down tree' silhouette), solitary tree in open african savanna habitat among smaller acacias.
Marula (Sclerocarya birrea) - broad, rounded/dome-shaped spreading crown typical of a mature savanna marula, single sturdy grey-barked trunk dividing into heavy ascending main branches, dense canopy of fine compound foliage set in open red-soil grassland savanna.
Guava (Psidium guajava) - elliptic-oblong leaves with strongly impressed, prominent pinnate venation typical of guava, opposite, decussate leaf arrangement on a slender reddish-tinged young stem, upright woody seedling/sapling habit with new growth flushing at the shoot tip.
+2
Coleção · 6 plantas
Sombra comestível tropical seca
Uma paleta estrutural comestível de clima quente para florestas secas sazonais, savanas e jardins sem geada que precisam de sombra, valor alimentar e recuperação depois da seca.
Tamarindo
Baobá
Marula
Goiaba
Mandioca
Vinagreira
Paper flower (Bougainvillea glabra) - a mature plant trained as a dense rounded shrub, showing the whole-plant habit with its dense, thorny, evergreen green-leaved canopy.
Chinese hibiscus (Hibiscus rosa-sinensis) - large funnel-shaped flower, long projecting staminal column, red throat, glossy toothed leaves.
Sweet thorn (Vachellia karroo) - broad, rounded crown of fine bipinnate foliage typical of the sweet thorn, golden puff-ball flowers densely covering the canopy in summer flush, mature single-trunk tree habit set in its native south african veld/grassland.
A Cape honeysuckle (Tecomaria capensis) shrub with arching evergreen foliage and clusters of slender orange tubular flowers.
+2
Coleção · 6 plantas
Tela florida de clima quente
Uma paleta colorida de tela e cerca-viva para jardins com geadas leves: arbustos floridos, cor trepadeira, néctar para fauna e estrutura de estação seca.
Primavera
Hibisco-chinês
Espinho-doce
Camarão-amarelo-do-cabo (madressilva-do-cabo)
Orelha-de-leão (dagga-silvestre)
Bela-emília
A clump of sweet basil (Ocimum basilicum) in garden soil, showing the upright, branching bushy habit and terminal flower spikes of a maturing plant.
Lacinato kale (Brassica oleracea var. palmifolia) showing the characteristic upright rosette of long, narrow, savoyed blue-green strap leaves.
Coral bells (Heuchera 'Marmalade') showing a low mound of ruffled coppery-orange foliage characteristic of the Heuchera villosa-derived hybrids.
Coleção · 3 plantas
Vasos de pátio para a cozinha
Uma coleção comestível compacta para recipientes, pátios e colheita perto da porta.
Manjericão genovês
Couve-lacinato
Heucheras