Happy Mystery Monday! The last shrub was the Hawaiian snow bush (Breynia nivosa). Congrats to Pat and Anand!

Your clues for this week:

• This vine is a member of the Apocynaceae (dogbane) Family.
• While the common names for this suggest it's a certain type of beautiful fragrant flower, it's not in the same family.
• It originally comes from China.

Good luck in guessing one of my favorite flowers!

How is your garden growing right now? I just bought a coconut palm tree as an indoor plant. My patio is now home to 3 dwarf fruit trees. I am planting the seeds for my vegetable garden. Finally, I keep buying plants to decorate my new place. I love this time of year!

New articles this month:

• Contorted Filbert
• Parrotia persica
• Spring 2012 MillionTreesNYC Giveaways
• Vaccinium Shrubs and Subshrubs

I have decided that someday I need to grow the Persian ironwood (Parrotia persica) someday. In addition to interesting red flowers that pop out before the leaves and gorgeous fall color, there's a variety named 'Vanessa'. If you come across a plant variety with your name, I think it's a great idea to have fun by growing it and telling people it was named after you.

Parrotia persica is a small deciduous tree that adds color to your yard throughout the year. Have you grown one before?

• Growing the Persian Ironwood

Happy Mystery Monday! Last week's fruit tree disease was peach leaf curl. Our correct guesses from Twitter were Lisa F and Tree_Monkey. Anand got it right in comments. A special shout out goes to my friends' 6 year old daughter. Without any help she looked at the picture and named it as a peach tree. It's a little gardener in training!

Ready for this week's shrub? Here are your clues:

• Part of a common name of this shrub might make you think this belongs in a colder region. However, another part of the same common name is the name of a tropical location, where this plant likes to grow. Think Zones 10-11.
• This makes an excellent specimen shrub with its green, pink and white leaves. The stems are red.
• This shrub belongs to the Euphorbia family. One relative of this plant is the pointsettia.

Good luck with this pretty shrub!