… plans that integrate hardscape structures such as paving, landscape lighting, and garden walls to achieve your landscape design goals. The last class is a field trip to view examples of content learned in class. A supply list will be sent. Prerequisites: …
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… and several stalks on each plant. The buds open in series, so a single plant will continue to bloom for 2 weeks or more. It is easy to grow and does well in full sun to part shade. The American Hemerocallis Society has awarded …
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… climates will be decorative through the winter. It has plumes of white flowers in late spring to early summer that contrast nicely with the dark leaves. The flower buds and the undersides of … leaves are both attractive shades of purple and red. Obsidian Alumroot has a compact form and is 10 inches high, 16 inches wide and 24 inches in flower. Attractive to bees, birds and resistant to deer, Obsidian Alumroot will work well in containers, perennial …
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… Weeping Sargent crabapple is a weeping form of the low, spreading Sargent crabapple suitable for a shrub border or rock garden. Pink buds open to white flowers followed by red fruit. Crabapples are small flowering trees that provide a showy display in the spring landscape for 1-2 weeks. In addition to the eye-catching buds and flowers, their foliage, habit and fruit make them attractive plants …
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… The Tschonoski crabapple, sometimes called pillar crabapple, is notable for its distinctive narrow habit and bright orange and red fall color. It bears white … are small flowering trees that provide a showy display in the spring landscape for 1 to 2 weeks. In addition to the eye-catching buds and flowers, their foliage, habit, and fruit make them attractive plants …
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… Kohleria are herbacious perennial plants in the gesneriad family native to tropical America. Kohleria 'Peridots Palenque' produces small densely hirsute orange flowers. The inside is white spotted with cherry red. It has small dark green leaves. Kohlerias are characterized by soft, ovate scalloped leaves and tubular flowers that are covered with soft fuzz. Related to African violets, the leaves are often suffused with purple or brown. The tubes, which are an …
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… Iris pumila is yellow or shades of purple with yellow or light blue beards and blooms very early in the season. It has been bred extensively with tall bearded irises, giving rise to a wide variety of cultivars that vary in height from dwarf to middle range. A true pumila iris has no stem, because the floral tube arises directly from the …
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… clumps which keep out weeds. The name Iris was taken from the Greek goddess of the rainbow to symbolize the many colors of this flower. In 1970 Devil's Dream received the Morgan Award which is the highest special award given to a Siberian iris by the American Iris Society . This award has since been elevated to the …
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… Virginia sweetspire is a native of stream banks and swamps of the southern and eastern US including Missouri and … rich, moist, but well-drained soils it can reach 8 feet in height but in cultivation it tends to be 3-6 feet tall and wide. In summer it bears showy racemes of fragrant white flowers that are attractive to pollinators and hummingbirds. In fall the leaves are various shades of red prior to falling. …
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… with his own reflection in a pool and was transformed into a flower, these plants are easy-to-grow perennials commonly called narcissus. Although all narcissus grow from bulbs and produce … span a wide range of shape, size, and color and are classified in 13 divisions according to flower shape and origin. Daiquiri is a small-cupped daffodil that produces one yellow flower on each stem in April and early May. …
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