… Thin, twisted yellow petals shade to deep orange at the base of the flowers on Girard's Orange witch hazel ( Hamamelis x intermedia … in the landscape so that a dark background behind it can accentuate the flowers. This cultivar is only one of dozens created by the hybridization of Hamamelis japonica (native to Japan) and Hamamelis mollis (native to western China). Witch hazel flowers have a spicy scent …
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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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… hot environment. As fuchsiaphiles (lovers of fuchsia) are all painfully aware, prior to this discovery, virtually all Fuchsia species (and their hundreds of hybrids) preferred moist, … California and the Pacific Northwest. Billy Green fuchsia ( Fuchsia 'Billy Green'), however, is an offspring of that heat-tolerant fuchsia and has expanded the range of garden fuchsias to much of the central and eastern United States. When grown outdoors, natural predators …
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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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… 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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… Fingerleaf Rodger's plant is distinguished for its bold palmate leaves, resembling those of a horse chestnut tree. With the … of bloom on deep red stems are born well above the mounded foliage. They open pink, and mature to a rosy red, sometimes giving a two-tone effect on the plant In the shade garden, Rodgersias give you a bold counterpoint to the delicate airy foliage common to so many shade plants in our area. The leaves of certain …
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