… Grown primarily for its attractive foliage, variegated sweet flag is a rush with grass-like leaves striped white and green, which emit a sweet scent when bruised. … in the summer. The plant forms a tuft about one square foot in size, spreading by rhizomes. It is a semi-evergreen and marginal aquatic plant, thriving in wet soil in full sun or partial shade …
Type: Garden Guide Plant
… Rakkyo, or Chinese chive, is an uncommon type of onion found in China and Japan. The small narrow bulbs are usually sold … flowers before disappearing entirely until the next spring. It rarely produces seeds and is propagated by division. …
Type: Garden Guide Plant
… Clematis alpina is a woody vine that uses twining leaf stalks to wind around whatever support it can find. The … shade with moderate watering, as long as it has good drainage and the soil around the roots is protected from the heat of the sun. …
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… Full Moon tickseed ( Coreopsis 'Full Moon') is a complex hybrid of eight different North American species of Coreopsis. It features 3-inch, … year to establish the root system; thereafter, water only during periods of drought. This is one of the first of the new hybrids created by Darrell Probst that focus on hardiness, disease …
Type: Garden Guide Plant
… with brown and yellow appear. Perhaps the most distinctive feature of purple hybrid catalpa is its cigar-shaped fruit, nicknamed the Indian bean. It is a low-maintenance deciduous tree that grows in part to full sun and attracts birds. …
Type: Garden Guide Plant
… Native to North America, pink turtlehead attains heights of 2 to 3 feet. It is naturalized in moist areas or in the back of the perennial border. About an inch in length, … and early fall. The large flowers are a late-season surprise. One of pink turtlehead's assets is the great variability of its use, from perennial border to water's edge. Its lovely pink …
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… to a height of 2' to 3' tall, has a rounded habit and forms a dense mound at maturity. It is used in the home landscape. Small white flowers, which are actually stamens, are borne at the … flowers, it has good fall color ranging from yellow to orange to scarlet. Dwarf forthergilla is a relatively unknown and underutilized small shrub. Unusual early-flowering small shrub. …
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… Brazilian Red Cloak is a very showy ornamental shrub in the acanthus family. Native to tropical America, it produces … the one-foot flower spikes held above the foliage. Because of its size, this tropical shrub is best grown in a tropical climate or conservatory. …
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… Creeping mahonia is a low-growing, stoloniferous, evergreen shrub that reaches 1 foot tall and spreads by … of grape-like, dark bluish-purple, sour berries that can be used in jellies. The stem wood is yellow and was used by Native Americans to produce yellow dyes and a bitter tonic. …
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… Sunbirds - the equivalent of American hummingbirds - find the flowers irresistible. This is a plant that requires a distinct dormancy in order for the bulbs to prosper and flower. After … begin to yellow, withhold water. Bulbs can be left in the original pot or redivided. This is another species that produces many 'daughter' bulbs if the growing conditions are ideal. …
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