Common name:Windmill Palm
Botanical name:Trachycarpus fortunei

This easy-to-grow palm will mature to a size of 30', and its slender trunk is covered with dense, heavy fiber topped with a crown of rich green, fan-shaped leaves that could spread 8' wide. Once it's established, it needs low to medium watering. This is great palm for a tropical effect near the pool.

Common name:Homestead Purple Verbena
Botanical name:Verbena 'Homestead Purple'

This perennial will reach 1'-2' tall and has small green leaves with purple flowers that bloom during warm weather. It is frost tender but will come back when the ground warms up. Feed with an all-purpose fertilizer once a month during the growing season. Verbena works as a great groundcover. Pinch ends to promote dense growth.

Common name:Parry's Agave, Orange Century Plan
Botanical name:Agave parryi v. huachucensis

This slow growing succulent reaches 1'- 2' tall and wide. It is clump forming with a dense rosette made of short gray leaves with dark thorns on the margins. This is the largest of the subspecies of parryi with leaves 2' long. It is subject to the Agave weevil. It blooms once in its lifetime, sending up a tall flowering yellow spike. This signals the death of the plant but typically, there are pups surrounding the plant. It may take 30 years for this plant to bloom.

Common name:Nichol's Willow-Leafed Peppermint
Botanical name:Eucalyptus nicholii

A graceful evergreen, growth on this tree can reach a height of 30' with a spreading crown of 25'-40'. Its leaves are narrow, light green colored and 3"-5" in length, smelling like peppermint. The main trunk is upright and coarse, reddish brown in color. This tree has a weeping habit, prefers full sun and is drought tolerant once it's established.