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Plant GuideCurly-leaf parsley
Petroselinum crispum 'Crispum'
This clumping perennial has triangular, strongly flavored, crinkly leaves.
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Plant GuideRussian sage
Perovskia atriplicifolia
The light, lavender-blue flowers, which attract butterflies to the garden, bloom in July, and often last throughout September.
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Plant Guide
Penstemon clutei
Penstemon cluteiThis upright perennial sports hanging, tubular bright-pink flowers to 1 inch across above serrated blue-green leaves.
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Plant Guide
‘Walker’s Low’ catmint
Nepeta × faassenii 'Walker's Low'This mound of lavender-blue flowers and aromatic, grayish green leaves up to 2 feet tall and 3 feet wide is great as edging or in a border, herb, or rock garden.
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Plant Guide‘Dropmore’ catmint
Nepeta × faassenii ‘Dropmore’This cultivar is a clump-forming perennial with toothed gray-green leaves and larger flowers than the hybrid.
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Plant Guide
Spanish love-in-a-mist
Nigella hispanicaThis easy-going annual has 2- to 3-inch-wide blue flowers with black centers and wine-colored stamens, along with light green ferny foliage.
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Plant GuideFlowering tobacco Nicotiana Sylvestris
Nicotiana sylvestrisThis thick-stemmed annual or short-lived perennial reaches 5 to 6 feet tall, forming a large basal rosette of dark green leaves to 36 inches long.
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Plant GuideTall purple moor grass
Molinia caerulea ssp. arundinacea 'Sky Racer''Skyracer' grows to about 3 feet wide and 2 to 3 feet wide, and in late summer to early fall, sends up delicate panicles to a height of 6 or 7 feet.
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Plant GuideMukdenia rossii ‘Crimson Fans’
Mukdenia rossii 'Crimson Fans'Attractive, glossy, fan-shaped leaves and creamy white bell-shaped flowers are borne in dense panicles for several weeks in spring.
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