Monocot and Aquatic Plant Lists 2021

Alocasia ‘Portodora’—Elephant Ear cultivar

Andropogon gerardi—Big Bluestem

Arundo donax ‘Gold Chain’—Variegated Giant Cane

Asparagus verticillatus—Climbing Asparagus

Bletilla striata—Chinese Ground Orchid

Calamagrostis × acutiflora ‘Karl Foerster’

Canna Flirtini™ (pink, purple form), Lee Roy Hamberg,
‘Pacific Beauty’ (orange, purple form), Robert Kemp’ (red)

Canna glauca—Louisiana Canna

Canna indica—Arrowroot

Colocasia ‘Black Magic’, ‘Coal Miner’, ‘Coffee Cups’, ‘Elepaio’,
‘Illustris’, ‘Ruffles’, ‘Tropical Storm’
—Taro cultivars

Colocasia gigantea ‘Thai Giant’—Elephant Ear

Cyperus sp.

Cyperus involucratus—Umbrella Grass

Ensete ventricosum ‘Maurelii’—Red Banana

Eucomis bicolor—Pineapple Lily

Festuca glauca—Blue Fescue

Hakonechloa macra ‘All Gold’

Hedychium coccineum—Hardy Ginger

Iris domestica ‘Hello Yellow’—Blackberry Lily

Musa ‘Siam’—Banana cultivar

Musa acuminata—Blood Banana

Musa basjoo—Japanese Banana

Musa lasiocarpa—Chinese Dwarf Banana

Musa velutina—Hairy Banana

Nassella tenuissima--Feathergrass

Ophiopogon planiscapus ‘Ebony Knight’—Black Mondo Grass

Setaria italica—Foxtail Millet

Setaria palmifolia ‘Rubra’—Red Palm Grass

Sorghum × drummondii—Sudangrass

Tinantia pringlei—Speckled Inchplant

Tradescantia pallida ‘Purpurea’—Purple Heart

Yucca filamentosa—Adam’s Needle

Strelitzia sp.—Bird of Paradise

Zantedeschia sp.—Calla Lily

Zingiber zerumbet—Shampoo Ginger

This rectangular pool showcases emergent, floating and submerged aquatic plants in a formal context. As a design element water has a transformative quality and inspires reflection, movement, our imaginations and dreams. This season the Aquatic Garden design highlights the push and pull between low lying water lilies and the height of cattails and rushes.

Acorus calamus ‘Variegatus’—Variegated Sweet Flag

Alisma gramineum—Water Plantain

Butomus umbellatus—Flowering Rush

Ceratophyllum demersum—Rigid Hornwort (submerged)

Crinum ‘Menehune’—Crinum Lily cultivar

Cyperus spp.

Eryngium aquaticum—Eryngo

Hygrophila corymbose—Temple Plant (submerged)

Ludwigia sedoides—Mosaic Plant

Nelumbo nucifera—Sacred Lotus

Nymphaea ‘Marliacea Chromatella’(light yellow), ‘Escarboucle’ (magenta), ‘Franz Berthold’ (pink), ‘Joey Tomocik’ (yellow), ‘Mayla’ (fuchsia), ‘Peach Glow’ (peach)
—Hardy Water Lily cultivars

Nymphaea ‘Foxfire’, ‘Tanzanite’, ‘Panama Pacific’—Tropical Water Lily cultivars (all purple)

Nymphaea tetragona—Pygmy Waterlily

Nymphaea tetragona ‘Rubra’—Pygmy Waterlily cultivar

Nymphoides peltata—Yellow Floating Heart

Oryza sativa—Asian Rice

Pistia stratiotes—Water Lettuce

Pontederia cordata—Pickerelweed

Pontederia crassipes—Water Hyacinth

Sagittaria lancifolia—Lanceleaf Arrowhead

Salvinia oblongifolium—Giant Water Velvet

Thalia dealbata—Powdery Alligator-Flag

Typha angustifolia—Cattail

Vallisneria spiralis—Eel Grass (submerged)

Around pool:

Iris domestica—Blackberry Lily

Miscanthus sinensis ‘Adagio’, ‘Morning Light’

Three pergolas surround the Aquatic and Monocot Gardens. These pergolas show off the versatility of twining, vining, or weeping plants.

Akebia trifoliate—Chocolate Vine

Campsis spp.

Campsis ‘Crimson Trumpet’

Campsis grandiflora—Chinese Trumpet Vine

Campsis × tagliabuana ‘Madame Galen’

Cedrus atlantica ‘Glauca Pendula’—Weeping Blue Cedar

Clematis sp.

Clematis flammula—Fragrant Virgin’s Bower

Clematis tangutica ‘Golden Tiara’—Golden Clematis cv.

Cucurbita sp.—Gourds

Euonymus fortunei ‘Vegetus’—Vegetus Wintercreeper

Hedera helix—English Ivy

Ilex × altaclerensis—Highclere Holly

Parthenocissus tricuspidata—Boston Ivy

Schisandra glaucescens

Schisandra chinensis

Vitis labrusca ‘Concord’, ‘Niagara’—Grape cultivars