Butterflies and bees adore it but deer keep their distance - Tall, intriguing and beautiful - alliums have a way of capturing our imagination and never letting go. Perhaps its their somewhat unusual perfectly round inflorescence or how high they grow, almost as if reaching up to say hello.
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From later summer to fall, there is no other perennial flower quite like Anemone in the border. They are prized for their late summer color that lasts into the fall.
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Wall Cress is readily familiar as a widely planted rock garden or edging perennial, used for a bright spring display. Plants form a small mound of olive-green leaves, bearing masses of sweetly fragrant, deep-pink flowers for several weeks. Drought tolerant once established. These require good drainage, particularly in the winter months.
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Miz America is a hybrid with exceptionally uniform leaf color, shape and size. Miz America maintains deep dark red color on both sides of the leaf even at a mature stage. An upright plant habit makes for easy harvesting. Miz America has a pleasant, mild taste - not bitter or spicy.
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‘Red Giant’ is a large India mustard that produces impressive clusters of flavorful, burgundy red leaves. The mature leaves can be harvested as quickly as 48 days after sowing and add zest to salads, sandwiches and cooked dishes. Harvest after 25 days for baby greens.
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Cercis canadensis, commonly called eastern redbud, is a deciduous, often multi-trunked understory tree with a rounded crown that typically matures to 20-30’ tall with a slightly larger spread. It is particularly noted for its stunning pea-like rose-purple flowers which bloom profusely on bare branches in early s pring (March-April) before the foliage emerges.
Foxlight Plum Gold foxglove has an almost fairy-tale sound to its name, with looks to match. A low mound of foliage gives way to flower-laden spikes in late spring into late summer. The blooms are deep pink with throats accentuated with purple and gold specks.
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A new series, this hybrid Foxglove is sterile so it flowers for many weeks, beginning in midsummer. It forms a low rosette of dark green leaves, bearing taller stems that hold spikes of dangling bells. Blooms are an intriguing deep rose and apricot with yellow throat. Stems are good and strong for cutting.
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Maroon stems and calyxes cradle peach-toned ruffled blossoms blushed with rose. The flowers sway on dark stems above the emerald green foliage. Flowers morph to softer shades of pink and apricot.
‘Dark and Handsome’, indeed! Stunning variety creates instant drama with large, 2.5-3" purple-black to black double-flowers. Winter-blooming 18-24” plants carry on flowering for eight weeks, and, given the chance, will soon naturalize, multiply, and spread densely in moist, shady woodland spots.
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Easily grown in average, medium moisture, well-drained soils in full sun to part shade. Unlike most other daffodils, this variety is noted for tolerating moist to wet soils in winter and during the spring growing season, with somewhat reduced moisture in summer and fall. Best in organically rich loams. Plant bulbs in early to mid-fall.
One of a few plants to occur naturally in southwestern North America and in southern South America with no natural populations in between, Nassella tenuissima is popular in landscaping for its delicate, thread-like leaves that billow gracefully in even the slightest breeze.
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Fizzy Lemonberry is an F1 hybrid that grows as an annual flowering plant. Annual flowers such as the Pansy will grow quickly, bloom profusely and then later die with the first killing frost. F1 Hybrids will not produce true the following year if seeds are collected from the plants.
Large, thick-petaled, 3-in./8-cm flowers are held beautifully over the foliage on strong, sturdy stems. Produces more flowers per plant than other pansies to create high-impact landscapes and containers.
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Primula seeds may be sown at any time onto a loam-based compost, barely cover so that around 50% are still visible. Best germination temperatures are between 10 and 15 degrees C. (e.g. a cool, northerly window sill).
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With its over-sized flamboyant flower head atop a tall slender stem, award-winning Tulip ‘Blue Parrot’ bobs and flutters like its tropical namesake. Its bright violet-blue flowers, flushed bronze-purple inside, are wavy-edged and fringed like feathers.
Tulip Golden Apeldoorn is a mid-spring blooming Darwin Hybrid tulip bulb that has a primrose yellow exterior and a golden yellow inside along with a black heart and an occasional red flush. Tulip Golden Apeldoorn force well, is very reliable, has long-lasting flowers and is considered a long term perennial.
Probably one of the finest purple lily-flowered tulips, Tulip “Purple Dream’ features deep purple blossoms with pointed reflexed petals and a delicate ivory heart! Blooming in the late spring garden, this tulip provides and elegant and graceful display when swaying in the spring breeze!
Often found in woodlands, Tulip sylvestris is a vigorous, delightfully scented, wild tulip with bright, buttercup-yellow flowers with a green rib running outside and pointed petals. A real delight in the garden with its glowing, starry flowers opening to expose their heart in full sun!
Yucca filamentosa, commonly called Adam’s needle, Spanish bayonet, yucca and needle palm, is a virtually stemless broadleaf evergreen shrub (though it looks more like a perennial than a shrub) that is native to beaches, sand dunes and fields from South Carolina south to Florida and Mississippi.
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