Omphalodes

Native to Europe, North Africa and Asia where they grow amongst shady rocks, woodlands and streamsides. These plants produce small blue or white flowers and simple leaves which are often hairy. They prefer a cool moist, shady spot in well-drained soil. Use as ground cover in a border or rock garden or amongst trees. Also called pennywort, and kidneywort...

 

Omphalodes Cappadocica Starry Eyes

Omphalodes Cappadocica Starry Eyes Navelwort: A tufted perennial with a bushy, creeping habit growing 6-8" high which features thick clumps of ovate to lanceolate leaves and sprays of forget-me-not-like, 5-petaled, 1/3" diameter flowers in loose racemes rising above the foliage in late spring.

 

Ophiopogon

Ophiopogon is a genus of herbaceous perennial plants in the family Ruscaceae, formerly classified with the Liliaceae. There are about 65 species, native to warm temperate to tropical east, southeast, and south Asia. The name of the genus is derived from Greek ophis, "snake", and pogon, "beard", most probably referring to its leaves.

 

Ophiopogon Mondo Black Grass

Black Mondo grass Ophiopogon planiscapus 'Nigrescens') when still a new cultivar was occasionally sold as 'Arabicus,' 'Ebony Knight,' or by the silly names 'Black Monkey Grass' or 'Black Dragon,' but the name that eventually stuck was the elegantly simple Black Mondo Grass.

 

Ornamental Garlic

Allium is the onion genus, with about 1250 species, making it one of the largest plant genera in the world. They are perennial bulbous plants that produce chemical compounds (mostly cystein sulfoxide) that give them a characteristic onion or garlic taste and odor, and many are used as food plants.

 
 

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