… There’s a good and bad side to Chameleon houttuynia, a multi-colored perennial growing 9 to 15 inches tall. Its long, heart-shaped leaves are extremely colorful, containing splotches of purple, pink, and red. Stems are vivid red, and tiny greenish-white flowers appear in the spring. They fill in quickly when planted in moist …
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… Rose Glow is a lantana hybrid producing a continuous display of brilliant yellow-orange and old rose flowers in profuse clusters on a trailing/mounding plant to 20 inches tall and 24 inches wide. Once established, it can take extreme heat and dry soils. Outdoors, it attracts butterflies and bees, but the scents produced by the …
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… Leading Lady Lilac beebalm grows to around 1 feet high and 2-3 feet wide and bears fragrant pale lilac flowers in the summer months from July to August. If you gently rub … surprised by their bergamot fragrance. Bright pompoms of flowers bloom in midsummer, and removing faded flowers will extend flowering. Beebalm is great for attracting bees, …
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… Oudolf's Charm beebalm grows to about 2-3 feet high and around 2 feet wide and has pale pink flowers during mid-summer. Beebalm grows in sunny or partially shady areas. If … you'll be pleasantly surprised by its fragrance. Bright pompoms of flowers bloom in midsummer, and removing faded flowers will extend flowering. Beebalm is great for attracting bees, …
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… daisies cover Milka Carmine aster ( Symphyotrichum 'Milka Carmine') throughout September and October. Butterflies, honeybees, and moths are all attracted to the flowers, and unfortunately, rabbits find the foliage tasty. This cultivar was selected from a seedling of …
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… perennial plant that is derived from native North American plants. It has strappy green leaves and bears attractive three-petaled lavender and white flowers about 1.5 inches in diameter from June until September. Each flower is open at most a single day, and in some cases, for only a morning. It grows to about two feet in height and up to three feet …
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… The flowers of 'Fancy Frills' open white and slowly mature to pink with white fringe along the edges and base. This cultivar originated in the Netherlands, released by W.A.M. Pennings in 1972. Plant this tulip in full sun, moderately fertile and moist soils, and protect it from rabbits and deer. Fringed tulips, like many other groups, …
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… Grassy-leaved sweet flag is native to Japan and East Asia and loves a wet environment. It has shiny, curved, narrow leaves that are bright green with pale yellow stripes. The leaves and rhizomes have a sweet scent. The inconspicuous yellow-green flowers grow in short spikes and …
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… Nodding onions are petite natives found growing in praries and margins of wooded areas. They form petite clumps of foliage with narrow leaves. This variety … (flower stalks). Like most alliums, nodding onion is not significantly bothered by deer and other mammalian herbivores, like moles. It also tolerates dry soils, drought, shallow and rocky soils and can grow under black walnut trees. This species is a larval host for the …
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… are among the showiest native plants in the buttercup family. Found throughout cool temperate and sub-Arctic North America, Europe, and Asia, this species grows in clumps and produces large cupped yellow flowers with numerous stamens in the center. The number of …
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