Native to Northern Africa, Marengo is a variegated, evergreen, groundcover with glossy, heart shaped leaves with red stems. It is a great groundcover for bare spots in the garden or as a border along the sides of buildings. Marengo is also a vigorous self-clinging climber. It looks stunning as it crawls up walls and trellises, and adds a rustic and aged look to the structures that it clings to.
The Hosta plant is a beautiful, tough, shade loving perennial. It is grown for its amazing foliage and can be an intensely fragrant plant. It has a beautiful summer bloom and is a very drought tolerant plant. Hosta can be used as a cut flower, a fragrance, a container plant or can simply be enjoyed as a low maintenance plant. Hostas are hardy from Zones 3-9 and are also known as plantain lilies. Native to Japan, Korea and China, Hostas are very shade tolerant, low growing plants with large leaves.