… The Hornbeam Maple is native to Japan and can reach a height of 30 feet with a similar spread. Its bright green leaves don't have the familiar maple lobes and have parallel veins that extend from the midrib to double saw-toothed margins. This tree has a rather bushy shape and is often multi-trunked. It …
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… It has pointed, lobed leaves which are a "typical" maple shape that emerge as maroon, maturing to a dark green. Fall color ranges from yellow-orange to bronze. …
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… small, round-topped shrub or a desirable small tree, the red buckeye can reach a height of 10 to 20 feet. Its lustrous dark-green leaves are composed of 5 leaflets. Beautiful, vivid, red-flowered panicles 3 to 6 inches long bloom in May. The brown seeds that mature in October look like the eye of a …
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… The lily leek ( Allium moly ) produces bright, golden-yellow flowers on 4- to 6-inch stems above lax, broad-leaved foliage. Thriving in sunny soils that dry in late summer, … may explain why this plant is avoided by deer and rabbits. Butterflies are strongly attracted to the nectar. …
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… Spikes of cream to light orange are produced from mid-summer through fall atop this tall growing annual with … into seeds that are ground into flour, and feed the songbirds; young leaves can be added to salads and older leaves are often cooked as greens. …
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… The white, 2-inch-wide, semi-double flowers—often with twisted tips to the petals—of whirlwind Japanese anemone (Anemone × hybrida 'Whirlwind') dance gracefully atop 3-foot-tall stems in the fall garden. Preferring cool, temperate climates to hot, humid summers, this hardy perennial also needs consistently moist soils. When given those …
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… This blood orange variety has sweet fruit with a bright orange peel and pink to dark purple flesh. Flowers are white, sweetly scented and appear in late winter, early spring … or patio plant that requires regular watering and fertilizer. Allowing roots and soil to dry in between waterings when light and temperatures are low will encourage vigorous root …
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… flowering is in June, followed by occasional blooms into August. Plant 'Aphrodite' in full sun to partially shaded locations with moderately fertile neutral pH soils that never completely dry out. Rabbits and deer avoid eating this plant due to the chemicals that provide the spicy fragrance. …
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… The log fern is native to the forests of the eastern US where it thrives in damp areas on the forest floor. The fronds … lofty and in ideal locations it forms a dense multi-frond clump of dark green fronds growing to about 3 feet high and 3 feet wide. It is suitable as specimen plant or as an understory in …
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… and width. Small flowers with pale yellow sepals and primrose-yellow petals appear in mid to late spring. Does well in light to deep shade, in moist well drained soil. It is ideal under a tree canopy competing with tree …
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