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Plant GuideEnglish lavender
Lavandula angustifolia
English lavender has silvery gray, aromatic foliage topped in summer with lavender-blue to dark purple flowers on long stems.
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Plant GuideSweet William
Dianthus barbatusThese short-lived perennials or biennials are charming plants and are worth their weight in gold in the cottage border.
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Plant Guide
Armenian geranium
Geranium psilostemonUpright, magenta flowers form shallow cups with jet-black centers and veins bloom in summer.
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Plant GuideSiberian Culver’s root
Veronicastrum sibiricumThis species has multiple 5- to 7-foot-tall, tapering spikes of pinkish-lavender flowers from summer to fall.
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Plant GuideAndean silver-leaf sage
Salvia discolorThis tender perennial from Peru is highly unusual for its dramatic, purple-black flowers and pistachio-green calyces.
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Plant GuideEarly goldenrod
Solidago junceaThis is the first goldenrod to bloom, featuring bright yellow, plume-like panicles in midsummer.
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Plant GuideLindheimer’s muhly
Muhlenbergia lindheimeriThis beautiful warm-season grass produces attractive, pale purplish-gray plumes in autumn and goes dormant in the cold season.
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Plant GuideAutumn fern
Dryopteris erythrosora
In spring, autumn fern’s fronds unfurl a copper red, then turn to bronze, and finally become a shiny dark green.
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Plant GuideCampanula carpatica
Campanula carpaticaUpright, open bell-shaped flowers completely cover the foliage of this late-blooming Campanula for several months in summer.
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Plant Guide
‘Fire King’ yarrow
Achillea millefolium ‘Fire King’This rhizomatous, mat-forming, upright, aggressive perennial produces strong red flowers in flat corymbs in summer atop finely-textured, aromatic foliage.
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