Adaptable - Page 2 of 11 - Fine Gardening

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    Smoke tree

    Cotinus coggygria

    This bushy shrub or small tree has generated many notable cultivars, all of which add great textural qualities to the landscape.

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    Red maple

    Acer rubrum

    This tree has lobed leaves that are green on top and gray-white beneath.

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    ‘Brilliantissima’ red chokeberry

    Aronia arbutifolia 'Brilliantissima'

    This is an erect shrub with lustrous dark green leaves that turn scarlet in autumn.

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    Horehound

    Marrubium incanum

    Horehound is a spreading perennial with scalloped, toothed, gray-green leaves, white-felted beneath, to 2 inches long.

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    French lavender

    Lavandula stoechas

    This early-blooming compact shrub bears intriguing pine-cone-shaped flowers that have dark-purple bracts, or “rabbit ears.

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    ‘Pleniflora’ Japanese kerria

    Kerria japonica ‘Pleniflora’

    This plant is a double-flowered cultivar of a suckering shrub from China and Japan.

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    ‘Blackie’ sweet potato vine

    Ipomoea batatas ‘Blackie’

    This tender tuberous perennial with heart-shaped, lobed, almost black leaves bears trumpet-shaped lavender to pale-purple flowers.

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    Yellow flag

    Iris pseudacorus and cvs.

    Yellow flag is a vigorous Laevigata iris with ribbed, sword-shaped gray-green leaves.

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    ‘Purple’ globe amaranth

    Gomphrena globosa ‘Purple’

    A bushy, hairy-leaved annual, globe amaranth bears round purple flower bracts on thick stems in summer and early fall.

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    Honeylocust

    Gleditsia triacanthos

    Honey locust grows in the wild from Pennsylvania to Iowa and south to Georgia and Texas.