Characteristics - Page 25 of 128 - Fine Gardening
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Plant Guide‘Vulcan’ coleus
Plectranthus scutellarioides ‘Vulcan’26-inch-tall ‘Vulcan’ has a complex color scheme: crimson with an undercurrent of reddish rose, enhanced by brushes of black that heighten the richness of its crimped, puckered leaves.
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Plant Guide‘Red Trailing Queen’ coleus
Plectranthus scutellarioides ‘Red Trailing Queen’As basic as a black dress, 15-inch-tall ‘Red Trailing Queen’ bedecks herself from leaf to stem in regal burgundy.
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Plant GuideCut-leaf lilac
Syringa × laciniata
This graceful hybrid produces fragrant, pale lilac flower clusters up to 4 inches long in late spring.
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Plant GuideGiant feather grass
Stipa giganteaThis semi-evergreen species makes a stately, stand-alone specimen with narrow, arching foliage and shimmering gold panicles that reach 8 feet tall.
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Plant GuideStarry Stonecrop
Sedum telephium 'Matrona'This choice cultivar boasts domed clusters of starry, pale-pink flowers with dark-tipped stamens.
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Plant GuideRose acacia, Bristly locust
Robinia hispidaThis showy flowering shrub grows to 8 feet tall and wide and features dark green, compound pinnate leaves on bristly stems and pendant clusters of fragrant, pea-like, rose-pink flowers that are…
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Plant Guide
Williams rhododendron
Rhododendron williamsianumThis rhododendron from China is quite unlike most of the better known species planted in gardens today.
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Plant GuideTiger Eyes sumac
Rhus typhina ‘Bailtiger’Lemon-lime foliage, fuzzy stems, and intense fall color make this sumac cultivar a standout.
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Plant Guide‘Frisia’ golden locust
Robinia pseudoacacia ‘Frisia’This large, fast-growing tree has spiny shoots, droopy leaves that stay sunny yellow from spring until frost, and fragrant white flowers in late spring and early summer on pendent racemes.
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Plant GuideGiant coneflower
Rudbeckia maximaThis choice species makes a strong vertical statement with its large, smooth, sea-green leaves and towering stems to 6 feet tall.
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