… Growing 20 to 30 feet in height, the eastern redbud is an ornamental North American native tree with a rounded habit and branches usually quite close to the ground. It blooms in early spring with cheerful purple-pink, pealike blossoms that appear …
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… Mojito elephant ears is a leafy tropical plant with large heart-shaped leaves held on fleshy purple stems. The leaves … a random pattern making it a thrilling plant for partly shaded gardens and planters. It grows to about four feet high and four feet wide and is suited to large containers, borders, and understory planting that receive partial sun. Elephant ears are …
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… A very strange plant, the Chaya or Mayan Spinach tree is a tropical shrub native from Mexico to South America. A member of the euphorbia family, a … They are high in iron and vitamins. However, they must be boiled for at least 10-15 minutes to leach out a harmful cyanide compound. …
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… Little Joe Pye weed is a cultivar of a native plant of the eastern parts of North America. As its name suggests, Baby … form reaching 4 feet in height and width and with its shorter stems the flower heads tend to remain upright and not flop over. It bears scented pinkish-mauve flowers in late summer and … part shade. It is an excellent plant for a border and will naturalize freely and may need to be monitored. …
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… it has attractive characteristics in all four seasons. Burgundy foliage in spring and summer is the perfect backdrop for the blush-white flowers that turn into red berries in late summer and … have dropped, the attractive exfoliating bark on the main trunk is revealed. Monlo grows to a height and width of about eight to ten feet. …
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… with extremely tiny light green needles, grows into a perfectly symmetrical cone over time to 12 feet tall x 8 feet wide (very old plants). Plant this spruce in full sun and with enough space around it to keep neighboring vegetation from shading out some of the branches and destroying the symmetry. The straight species is used for Christmas trees, for essential oils, and as a source of medicinal salves and drinks. …
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… Narcissus ‘Sailboat’ is in Division 7. It blooms in mid spring with 2½ inch flowers. The petals are reflexed and white while the corona opens yellow but matures to white. The bulbs are toxic and will not be eaten by deer or rabbits. The name Narcissus comes from the Greek word for narcotic and is tied to the myth of a young man known as Narcissus who fell in love with his own reflection. When he …
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… Lady Elsie May™ shrub rose ( Rosa 'ANGelsie') is a 2005 All America Rose Selection (AARS) winner, both for its generous bloom habit and its … well as a place in the border. Give it a well-drained, sunny location, and a little fertilizer to kick off the season. One other note on siting...this rose is quite thorny, so you may want to keep it away from children's play areas. …
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… Country Dancer Buck shrub rose ( Rosa 'Country Dancer') is another of the very hardy, repeat-flowering roses hybridized in Iowa by Griffith Buck, Ph.D. (1915–91), a professor of horticulture at Iowa State University. Its rose-red buds open to reveal rose-pink double flowers on a plant that will repeat-bloom from mid-June until the first frost. This cultivar tops out at 3 to 4 feet in height; sports dark green, leathery leaves; and is covered with large rose hips from …
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… Pomponella™ is a compact floribunda rose that produces deep pink, fully double flowers in clusters of five to seven from June to October. Released by W. Kordes Sohne in Germany in 2005, it has disease-resistant clean …
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