… Heliopsis helianthoides var. scabra 'Summer Nights' is a mouthful. This delightful descendant of prairie natives features sturdy, wine-purple stems supporting bronze-tinted foliage and golden-orange flowers with a red center. This cultivar was selected and named by a native plant specialist at North Creek Nursery and is perfectly hardy in the …
Type: Garden Guide Plant
… Ginkgo, introduced by the Saratoga Horticultural Foundation, Inc. in San Martin, California, is a male clone that will not produce the distinctive smelly fruit. It has unusually large and pendulous leaves. The leaves are deeply divided, elongated, and resemble a fish-tail palm leaf. These unusual leaves give an overall lacy appearance to the …
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… Native to Texas and Northern Mexico, ‘Furman’s Red’ is a shrubby perennial sage that reaches 2 – 3 feet in height. It is fast growing, producing brilliant magenta-red tubular flowers from May through August. It prefers full sun and well-drained soil, is deer resistant, and attracts birds, butterflies, and hummingbirds. For …
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… Northern or Prairie Dropseed is widely regarded as the most attractive of the American prairie grasses. It is a clumping warm season grass with bright green leaves and delicate flower spikes that appear in late summer and early fall. The clump can grow to about 3 feet high and 3 feet wide. The fragrant flowers are …
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… Lamprocapnos spectabilis 'Hordival' is also known as Lamprocapnos spectabilis 'Valentine'. It grows 16 -18 inches tall and blooms in late spring to early summer. The heart shaped flowers are cherry red and hang from long, arching leafless stems. Each flower has an inner petal protruding from the …
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… Blue ginger ( Dichorisandra thyrsiflora ), a member of the Commelinaceae family, is a tropical plant that resembles ginger in growth and habit but is actually related to the spiderworts (genus Tradescantia ). This striking plant is native to the tropical woodlands of North, Central, and South America, especially in the Atlantic forest vegetation in Brazil. It is cultivated for …
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… Little John dwarf bottlebrush is a compact cultivar of the crimson or lemon bottlebrush that is native to southeastern … in a rounded mass. The red flower spikes, reminiscent of a bottle brush, are nectar rich and very attractive to hummingbirds and insects. It grows to 3 feet high and 5 feet wide and prefers full sun and average soil …
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… Forests of the American beech once covered a large part of Ohio, Michigan, Indiana and Kentucky. It is a large and imposing tree at maturity with low, wide-spreading branches. Its fruit, a beechnut, is edible …
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… The brilliant colors of red, white and green will attract you to this plant. This plant is an epiphyte and is adapted to growing on the trees and rocks of the tropical jungles of South America. This …
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… 'Mayfield' is a larger, strongly columnar, form selected in Ohio around the 1940's. It is a male clone, which will not produce the distinctive smelly fruit, and will mature to tall 15 foot by 4 foot narrow tree in 10 years. Good for planting in rows or as an accent. The Ginkgo is an ancient deciduous conifer and evidence has been found which shows this tree coexisted with the dinosaurs. Ginkgo is …
Type: Garden Guide Plant
