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Check out the awesome ACES article about native plants for our area!

Native Flowers for North Alabama Landscaping
The Culture of Camellias: The State Flower of Alabama

Spring Blooms!

Osage Native Azalea
Evergreen Rhododendron
Variegated Solomon Seal
This is a green shrub with pink, blue and purple flowers. the flowers have a flat, open, central cluster of tiny, flowers surrounded by a ring of four sepaled flowers.
Blue Lacecap Hydrangea
A pink bloom of a Chinese Ground Orchid. It has star-shaped sepals and inner petals that resemble a dragon's mouth. The bottom of the petal has wavy white stripes. In the background are the green leaves that are long and sword-like.
Bletilla Striata–Chinese Ground Orchid
A deciduous native Azalea called Pink Carousel. The small trumpet-shaped flowers are a bright color mix of white, pink, coral, and light orange. They are arranged in rounds of 5 or 6 on one stem. They cover most of the small shrub's branches.
Pink Carousel Deciduous Azalea
In the foreground are Firewheel Gallardia wildflowers which are orange with yellow edges. They are growing tall on the stems. Behind them are irises that are not in bloom. Beyond those are clusters of peonies that are blooming with white, light pink and very hot pink flowers. Beyond those are ornamental grasses and a chain-link fence. A dense forest lies beyond the fence.
A photo of a garden with various ornamental plants in it. To the left is a yellow Lady Banks' Rose bush and center is a very full beautiful white rose bush. Center right is a hot pink rose bush, and the far right is a light orange rose bush.
On the left is a large medium pink rosebush filled with roses with dark green foliage. In the background is a hot pink rose bush and to the right is a rose bush with medium green foliage that isn't flowering yet.

Summer Blooms!

Two hot pink large hibiscus flowers, each with five floppy petals, blooming right next to each other with green ovate leaves surrounding them and a cluster of green buds sticking out above them.
Hardy Hibiscus
This image is a picture of five-petaled hot pink portulaca flowers with a bright yellow center. They are surrounded by their dark green foliage, which consists of small, smooth, fleshy dense oval leaves that are clustered at stem joints.
Hot Pink Portulaca aka Purslane
A cluster of six strawflowers growing on light green stems with spear-shaped leaves that are several inches long. The flowers are 1.5 inches in diameter and are papery, with countless small dagger-like light pink petals attached around a circular yellow center that stands higher around the edges.
Strawflowers
This is a picture of a cluster of three yellow and orange mottled Canna Lily flowers on a tall green stem with large green smooth oval leaves enveloping it. It is situated near a pond and there are pond plants in the background.
Yellow King Humbert Canna Lily
A yellow and black bumblebee is curled around a stamen in a large pink flower. The bee is covered in tiny pollen grains and so is the interior of the flower.

Fall Blooms!

Bloodroot
Bloodroot
Yellow Trout Lily
Yellow Trout Lily
Closed Mountain Laurel Buds
Mountain Laurel