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Plant GuideTufted hair grass
Deschampsia cespitosa 'Northern Lights'
A tuft of thin grassy foliage with gray and gold variegation distinguishes this cultivar.
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Plant GuideViola ‘Etain’
Viola ‘Etain’A hardworking, compact perennial, ‘Etain’ violet forms well-behaved clumps and blooms from time to time from spring through fall.
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Plant Guide
‘Peach Melba’ nasturtium
Tropaeolum majus ‘Peach Melba’This old-fashioned cultivar of the species has a mounding habit and grows 9-12 inches tall and wide.
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Plant Guide‘Spring Symphony’ Foam flower
Tiarella 'Spring Symphony'This reblooming, clump-forming variety blooms in spring, producing 15-inch spires densely packed with pink blossoms.
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Plant Guide
Compact wall germander
Teucrium chamaedrys var. compactumThis compact, evergreen subshrub has glossy, dark green leaves and grows to only 5 inches tall and 16 inches wide.
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Plant Guide‘Milk Maid’ nasturtium
Tropaeolum majus ‘Milk Maid’This old-fashioned cultivar of the species has a mounding habit and grows to 12 inches tall and wide.
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Plant GuideRed trillium
Trillium erectumThis trillium has upright or outward-facing blossoms of chocolate or reddish-purple, or occasionally white or yellow.
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Plant Guide‘Vanilla Berry’ nasturtium
Tropaeolum majus ‘Vanilla Berry’This cultivar of the old-fashioned species has a mounding habit and grows to 12 inches tall.
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Plant Guide
Satin flower
Sisyrinchium striatumIn early summer, these grass-like perennials produce multiple spikes of small, pale yellow blooms with dark yellow centers and faint purple stripes.
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