Characteristics - Page 21 of 128 - Fine Gardening
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Plant Guide
‘Pink Frost’ sweet potato vine
Ipomoea batatas 'Pink Frost'This sweet potato vine is blessed with leaves that are edged in pink.
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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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Japanese winterberry
Ilex serrata 'Sundrops'This compact deciduous holly reaches up to 8 feet tall with equal or greater spread.
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‘Nicolas’ Japanese forest grass
Hakonechloa macra ‘Nicholas’Some gardeners love Japanese forest grass because it looks like a baby bamboo grove or a lush woodland carpet.
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White-edged hosta
Hosta ‘Patriot’'Patriot' is one of the few hostas that can really take the heat.
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Dolce® Licorice heuchera
Heuchera 'TNHEU044'This purple to almost black heuchera adds drama to the shade.
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‘Blackberry Jam’ heuchera
Heuchera 'Blackberry Jam'This heuchera, sold as Dolce® Blackcurrant in the U.
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‘Green Spice’ coral bells
Heuchera 'Green Spice'This coral bells cultivar has silvery leaves with vivid purple veins and spires of white flowers in late spring and early summer.
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Mexican fire bush
Hamelia patensA tropical tree by design, the Mexican fire bush freezes to the ground in winter in Zones 8–11 but grows up to 5 feet tall by summer's end.