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Plant GuideGermander sage
Salvia chamaedryoidesThis choice species boasts narrow, downy sage-green leaves and true sky-blue blossoms from summer to fall.
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Plant GuideSilver sage
Salvia argenteaThis biennial or short-lived perennial is grown for its massive, downy-silver rosettes of foliage.
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Plant GuideCanna ‘Sémaphore’
Canna 'Sémaphore'Growing to 6 or 7 feet, 'Sémaphore' features slender, dark-bronze leaves topped by spikes of narrow-petaled flowers of an unusual glowing color that's not quite yellow and not quite orange; perhaps…
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Plant GuideCanna ‘Madame Paul Caseneuve’
Canna 'Madame Paul Caseneuve'A great canna to start with if you're convinced you hate them is 'Madame Paul Caseneuve', from 1902.
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Plant GuideBee balm
Monarda didymaBee balm, a clump-forming perennial, bears minty-scented scarlet, pink, or purple flowers in midsummer on branching, square stems.
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Plant Guide‘Golden Sword’ yucca
Yucca filamentosa ‘Golden Sword’This easy-to-grow evergreen yucca bears dramatic, sword-shaped yellow leaves with a dark green edge.
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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
Ground morning glory
Convolvulus mauritanicusGround morning glory is a trailing low grower with a profusion of funnel-shaped lavender flowers from summer to early autumn.
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Plant Guide‘Sixteen Candles’ sweet pepperbush
Clethra alnifolia ‘Sixteen Candles’‘Sixteen Candles’ sweet pepperbush is a newer cultivar of a popular native shrub.
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Plant GuideTrumpet creeper
Campsis radicans
Trumpet creeper is a vigorous climber with clusters of trumpet-shaped orange to red flowers from late summer to autumn.
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