Celebrate the beauty and vibrancy of spring with Southern Living Plant Collection’s specially selected May Plants of the Month, featuring standout varieties from our stunning Carex and Hydrangea varieties. These exceptional plants are perfect additions to your garden, providing unique textures, dazzling colors, and unmatched elegance that thrive in Southern gardens.
Explore Our Carex Choices
Carex are celebrated for their versatile ornamental grass-like appearance, ideal for bringing year-round color and graceful texture to your landscape. Our featured Carex selections this month include:
- Everest EverColor® Carex: This elegant sedge displays striking variegated foliage with vivid white edges framing deep green centers. Ideal for adding contrast and brightness to garden beds, borders, and containers.
- Everillo EverColor® Carex: Known for its vibrant golden-yellow foliage, Everillo Carex illuminates shaded areas and complements darker foliage plants beautifully. Its compact, mounding habit makes it perfect for ground covers, edging, and container plantings.
- Eversheen EverColor® Carex: With glossy green leaves highlighted by golden-yellow stripes, Eversheen Carex adds a polished, dynamic appearance to garden designs. Perfect for containers, borders, or as an accent plant in full to partial shade.
Stunning Hydrangea Varieties
Hydrangeas are timeless favorites, admired for their lush, colorful blooms and versatility in garden design. Our collection features outstanding hydrangea varieties, each offering unique beauty and reliable garden performance:
- ‘Big Daddy’ Hydrangea: Renowned for its enormous blooms, Big Daddy provides breathtaking displays with flower clusters reaching up to 12 inches across. This variety is perfect for shaded areas, creating impressive focal points.
- Dear Dolores® Hydrangea: Offering abundant, long-lasting blooms and a compact growth habit, Dear Dolores thrives beautifully in containers or smaller garden spaces. Available in both lacecap and mophead forms, its blooms create a lovely, refined garden display.
- Heart Throb® Hydrangea: With vibrant, deep pink to red blooms that capture attention, Heart Throb adds dramatic color and elegance to landscapes. Its robust flowering makes it ideal for standout garden beds or as a stunning container specimen.
- White Wedding® Hydrangea: Featuring pristine white blooms set against dark green foliage, White Wedding delivers timeless elegance and classic charm. Ideal for sunny to partly shaded locations, it creates a sophisticated garden ambiance.
Enhance Your Garden this May
Integrating these selected Carex and Hydrangea varieties into your landscape ensures beauty, color, and elegance throughout the growing season. Whether you prefer the vibrant texture of Carex or the show-stopping blooms of Hydrangeas, Southern Living Plant Collection provides exceptional choices to elevate your garden design.
Explore our May Plants of the Month today and create your own beautiful Southern landscape filled with vibrant colors, delightful textures, and unmatched garden charm.
