Yucca filamentosa 'Excalibur' forms rosettes of spiky, strap-like leaves coloured blue-green to powdery blue.

Yucca filamentosa 'Hofer's Blue' forms rosettes of spiky, strap-like leaves coloured in a bold silver-blue.

Zaluzianskya or night phlox has deep pink buds opening to night-fragrant white flowers in multitudes for months. A Phoenix Perennials best seller.

Zanthoxylum piperitum, the Japanese pepper, is an aromatic, spiny shrub with small, yellowish green flowers and scarlet fruits used in Japanese and Korean cooking.

Zanthoxylum simulans, the Sichuan pepper, produces brownish red fruits that are used in Sichuan cuisine having a spicy, numbing effect.