PERENNIALS ox Seasonal Touches of Color in Your Garden 
Priced at Nursery 
Agapanthus umbellatus, Blue Lily of the Nile. 
On stout yet graceful stalks this plant bears 
large umbels of lovely blue lily-like flowers 
in great profusion in summer. 3 feet. Leaves 
long and narrow, in nice clumps. Also white 
flowered form. 
Aster frikarti, Wonder of Stafa. Bushy plants, 
alive with 2-inch lavender-blue asters from 
Gerbera jamesoni hybrids, Transvaal Daisies. 
One of the finest garden and cutting flowers 
for California. Low tufts of leaves and long 
stemmed crisp, long-lasting daisies in a bril- 
liant array of colors, pastel and bright. Sun. 
Hemerocallis, Day Lilies. Handsome clumps 
of foliage graced with brilliant lilies in yel- 
low and oranze shades. Essential to the bor- 
der as are delphiniums and phlox. Easy, sun 
or shade. 
Lavandula officinalis, English Lavender. 
Shrubby plant with greyish aromatic foliage 
and tall slender spikes of bluish-viol2t flowers. 
Very hardy. Sun. 
Marguerite. We offer this popular bushy 
perennial in both white and yellow flowered 
types. Flowers, 2-inch daisies, are freely 
produced and long lasting. An indispensable 
plant. 
June to December. Rich green foliage. 22 
feet. Full sun. 
Campanula isophylla. Trailing perennial for 
hanging baskets or rock gardens. Small grey 
green leaves and trailing stems of saucer 
shaped white or blue flowers. Free flowering. 
Campanula poscharskyana, Serbian Bluebell. 
A most charming low growing perennial, sel- 
dom over 6 inches in height, making a dense 
carpet of blue saucer-shaped flowers in early 
summer. Use it as a ground cover in lightly 
shaded places or as a border plant in the 
flower garden. 
Ceratostigma plumbaginoides (Plumbago lar- 
pentae). Dwarf spreading plant with nice 
green foliage and bright blue flowers with 
red bracts in late fall. 1 foot, sun. 
Convolvulus mauritanicus, Blue Morocco 
Creeper. Light grey-green creeper with quan- 
tities of pale lavender cups all summer. Ex- 
cellent ground cover for sun. 6 inches. Not 
weedy. 
Delphinium, Pacific Hybrids. Graceful spikes 
of large, well proportioned flowers in an ex- 
cellent color range. 
Fuchsias. These most useful plants offer an 
almost infinite variety of forms and colors, 
upright, hanging or trailing. 
DELPHINIUM, PACIFIC HYBRIDS 
Geraniums. Never out of bloom. Ideal for 
patio, window box, balcony, garden. Available 
upright or trailing in colors from the most 
delicate to the most vivid. complete. 
Many Flowering Annuals and Perennials 
available from flats in season. Our stock is 
Pelargoniums. Long valued for their wealth of 
bloom and glorious colors, the modern va- 
rieties surprise with ever greater variations 
of charming and contrasting color combi- 
nations. 
Penstemon Sensation. 2 to 3 foot with large 
showy trumpet-shaped flowers in pink, red, 
white or combinations. Free blooming and 
good for cutting. Full sun. 
Phlox paniculata, Garden Phlox. Perhaps the 
showiest summer perennial for the border or 
in masses against the shrubbery. Never fails 
to give maszes of glorious color throughout 
the summer and fall. 2 to 3 feet; sun. Red, 
pink, lavender, and white. 
Hybrid Primrose, Pacific Giant. A Polyanthus 
strain with taller stems, larger flowers and a 
wider and clearer color range than hertofore 
known. 
Salvia leucantha, Mexican Sage. Low grow- 
ing with narrow pointed green leaves and 
spikes of rosy-violet flowers. Summer and 
fall. 
Saxifraga crassifolia. Large round leathery 
leaves making an excellent show all year in 
shaded places. Spikes of pink flowers in fall 
or winter, in broad rounded clusters. 
Shasta Daisy Esther Reed. Flowers p2ony- 
flowered with pompon center surrounded by 
longer ray flowers. Very lovely for cutting. 
Shasta Daisy Marconi. Fully double flowers 
of immense size. 
GROUND COVER PLANTS 
Much publicity has been given this group of plants of late. Some 
make lawn substitut2s of variable quality depending on the method 
by which they are set out. In general better results are to be had 
by carefully grading and preparing the ground as you would for a 
lawn. Then set small divisions closer than generally recommended 
to cover the soil as quickly as possible before the soil between has 
a chance to wash away. This prevents the mounding effect so often 
seen in these lawns. 
Ajuga, Carpet Bugle. One of the finest covers for shady places 
where a good water supply can be assured. Leaves make a close 
turf not over 2 inches high. Blue flowers in spring. 
Dichondra repens. Makes a very close lawn surface of tiny round 
green leaves. Best in sunny places where it can be given moderate 
watering. Becomes loose and large in shade. Needs mowing once 
in a while only. Easy to manage. 
English Ivy. Dark green glossy leaves, makes a cover about one 
foot deep. Needs no mowing. Excellent on banks or level areas. 
Mat is too deep to walk over comfortably. Also the variegated 
form. Makes an unusual color contrast. 
Gazania. Greyish tufts of foliage covered by quantities of golden 
or orange and reddish daisies on six-inch stems. Best in hot sun. 
Set plants 6 to 8 inches apart. Subject to frost. 
Ivy Geranium. For partially shaded or sunny places. Shiny neatly 
shaped leaves and showy flowers in pink, red, white, lavender or 
purple. Makes a nice cover for banks. Subject to frost. 
Helxine, Baby’s Tears. Hardy, cloze creeper, making an excellent 
quick cover in deep shade with plenty of moisture. Tiny round 
St. Patrick’s Day green leaves. Subject to frost. 
Mesembryanthemum, Ice Plant. Rapid growing waxy succulent 
plants making excellent covers in dry sunny places. Colorful flowers 
in abundance, often cover the plants and make showy effects. 
Available in different colors, rose-pink, red, orange and yellow. 
Ornamental Strawberry, Fragaria chiloensis. Handsome glossy fo- 
liage, covered in spring with countless white flowers. Hardy and 
attractive, sun or partial shade. 
Prostrate types of Junipers, Cotoneasters, Hypericum and Pyracantha 
and certain vines as honeysuckles also make excellznt ground cover. 
See these items listed in other parts of our catalog. 
Rhynchospermum jasminoides (Star Jasmine). Useful both as a 
ground cover and as a vine; especially good in shade. Very dark 
green glossy foliage year around; covered wtih fragrant star-shap2d 
white flowers in May-June. 
Trailing Lantana. Creeping plant making a mat about one foot deep 
with showy lavender-purple flowers over a long season. Very tough 
and hardy. Should it freeze back it quickly recovers. 
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Soil builders, such as peat moss, leaf mold and cow manure, are also items that every garden needs. We 
we handle only the best in this line. 
Insecticides and Fertilizers are necessary items to good plant growth and appearance. See our complete 
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