… BUZZ™ Hot Raspberry Butterfly Bush This upright, semi-bushy shrub only grows to a size of three to five feet, but it produces elegant spikes of white plumes to accent its medium green-greyish foliage. It thrives with full sun and moist, well-drained …
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… with tiny white stamens. Plant 'Sweet Black Cherry' in full sun, average soils, and close to a path or window to enjoy the fragrance. Sweet Williams are old-fashioned favorite perennials which are often used as annuals, especially varieties hybridized with other species. This cultivar was bred to produce flowers the first season. …
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… pinks has small, linear, grayish-green leaves. It forms nice dense mounds and grows only to a foot or so. It is wonderful in the foreground of a perennial border or rock garden. One-inch … borne either as singles or doubles. If you pinch back after flowering, the plant will continue to bloom. This is an easy plant to grow, and no sunny garden should be without it. Lovely pink flowers, each petal with scalloped …
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… ovate or rounded leaves with a wavy margin. Yellow and red fragrant flowers bloom in February to March. The small flowers grow in clusters of three or four and each flower has four strap-like … Intermediate witch hazels were created by the hybridization of Hamamelis japonica (native to Japan) and Hamamelis mollis (native to western China). …
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… like shape. It stands 4 feet tall and blooms from midsummer into early fall. It is attractive to hummingbirds while resistant to deer. The name Hibiscus came from the Greek work "hibiskos" that mant "marshmallow". The sticky root or stem of some plant in the mallow family was used at one time to make marshmallow confections. …
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… falls. This is a miniature tall bearded iris that stands 18 inches tall and blooms in mid to late season. In 1965 Topsy Turvey was awarded Honorable Mention by the American Iris Society. It is an excellent cut flower and is attractive to butterflies and hummingbirds while resistant to rabbits and deer. The classic Fleur de Lys, which has been a symbol of royalty throughout …
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… This is a dwarf iris standing only 6 inches high and is found in floodplains from Maryland to Oklahoma. It thrives in shade, spreads rapidly, and is resistant to deer and rabbits. The name iris was taken from the Greek goddess of the rainbow to symbolize the many colors of this flower. The classic Fleur de Lys, which has been a symbol of …
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… The throat is greenish white and it has orange pollen. The flowers are trumpet-shaped, and up- to out-facing. An Asiatic hybrid, the flowers grow in panicles, like candelabras, and the plants grow to a height of 2-3 feet. The stems are clothed in densely-clustered narrow leaves. They are hardy to zone 3 and not fussy about soil, but newly-emerging plants may need protection from nibbling …
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… a highlight in bouquets. Plant breeders have hybridized the native Persian species with others to produce a series of hybrids better adapted to cool, temperate climate conditions, but full sun and well-drained soils are still critical to this flower's success. …
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… a very dense pyramid of needles that are a rich, glossy green; each needle measures only 1/4" to 1/2" in length, the shortest of all cultivated spruces'. It grows in excess of 50' tall with weeping horizontal branches. This refined spruce deserves to be a specimen plant in the landscape. The developing cone is a rich red-purple, very … many Norway and white spruces that frequently dot the Midwestern landscape. Good alternative to Norway spruce …
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