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  • … Members of the genus Cornus , commonly known as dogwoods, are welcome in the home garden for their multi-season interest -- be it flowers, fruit, foliage, and/or bark -- and their range …
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  • … ‘Nordine Red’Smoke Tree is a small ornamental, deciduous tree or large bush that is grown for its attractive foliage and plumelike panicles that appear in the summer and look like smoke. …
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  • … up to 4 feet wide. It makes a delightful spring-flowering foundation plant or groundcover for sunny banks or slopes. …
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  • … natural shapes are graceful enough. ‘Fiesta’ is a very unusual forsythia bred in New Zealand for its colorful foliage. The untoothed ovate leaves emerge creamy yellow with a green edge, …
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  • … natural shapes are graceful enough. Forsythia ‘Northern Gold’ is a modern hybrid selected for reliable bud hardiness to -30 degrees F. It has a rounded shape with a maximum height of …
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  • … other year) - consult with your local agriculture extension service or master gardener program for a list of pruning techniques to overcome this tendency if annual crops are desired. …
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  • … winter. As a native it is attractive to pollinators and generally repels deer. It is suitable for border plantings in native gardens where a more diminutive plant may be needed. However pay …
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  • … stems have whorled foliage and may eventually reach a height of well over 4 fteet, although for several years they may be as short as 2 ft. Martagon lilies such as Lilium hansonii are the …
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  • … untidy, when grown en masse they make an attractive informal screen and their preference for part shade makes them very suitable as an understory planting where other shrubs may not …
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  • … 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 …
    Type: Garden Guide Plant