… The cultivar 'Pleasures of May' has white standards with a lavender blush and pale violet falls … often marked with distinctive yellow and white patterns. It stands 30 inches high and blooms in early to late season, while the thin, grass like foliage remains a highlight throughout the summer. In …
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… The cultivar 'Blackberry Jubilee' Iris sibirica 'Blackberry Jubilee' is marbled in shades of red to violet, a color reminiscent of crushed blackberries. The flowers are large, wide and ruffled …
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… Crown-of-thorns is a slow-growing tropical shrub with a rambling growth habit. Plants can grow to 3 feet by 3 feet on this Madagascar native that may be extinct in the wild. The inconspicuous flowers, called “cyathia” are surrounded by colorful bracts. 'Pet …
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… Crown-of-thorns is a slow-growing tropical shrub with a rambling growth habit. Plants can grow to 3 feet by 3 feet on this Madagascar native that may be extinct in the wild. Its 5- to 6-sided fleshy, thorny stems are adorned with short, oblong leaves. The …
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… long stalked lavender flowers anytime between late September and mid-November, depending on the warmth and extent of Indian Summer. It reaches a height of 5 inches in bloom and the flowers benefit from a ground cover that can add support to their long, delicate flowers during heavy rains and wind. Because it starts into growth …
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… is a massive herbaceous plant with enormous broad heart-shaped green leaves that was found in the jungles of northern Thailand. Thailand Giant can grow to nine feet in height and about 6 feet in width with single leaves reaching five feet long. It …
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… Lilium ‘Midnight’ has gorgeous, very deep burgundy flowers in mid summer. The flowers are downfacing and unusually large, measuring 6 to 12 inches. Midnight is a Trumpet hybrid with the distinctive strongly fragrant trumpet-shaped …
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… a double-flowered cultivar of false sunflower, also known as ox-eye daisy. 'Asahi' is unique in having numerous congested, toothed central golden florets surrounded by several rings of … larger, normal ray flowers. It is a tough, hardy native perennial found in prairies and along the edges of woodlands. At 2 feet tall, this false sunflower is shorter than the wild species. Once established, 'Asahi' is drought-tolerant and long-blooming—usually from June to September. This species is found in the wild from Hudson Bay to Florida, and west to North …
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… "umbrella plant" (along with a dozen other unrelated plants), is a cute woodland plant native to east and central North America. Each 15-inch plant produces a pair of deeply-notched round leaves. At the juncture where the two leaves meet a single two-inch wide-open white flower appears in May. This is followed by a single oval-shaped fruit, not toxic when fully ripe but not …
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… Kohleria are herbacious perennial plants in the gesneriad family native to tropical America. Kohleria ‘Lono’ has flowers with violet-red …
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