Characteristics - Page 29 of 128 - Fine Gardening

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    Canna Tropicanna Gold

    Canna var. “MACtro’

    Tropicanna Gold is perhaps the showiest of all of the variegated cannas and one of the best for hot, humid, sunny southern gardens.

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    ‘Freida Hemple’ caladium

    Caladium bicolor 'Freida Hemple'

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    ‘Centenaire de Rozain-Bourcharlat’ Indian shot

    Canna 'Centenaire de Rozain-Bourcharlat'

    This 3-foot-tall canna from the 1920s has impossibly deep, pure-rose flowers recalling orchids and leis.

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    Corydalis flexuosa

    Corydalis flexuosa

    From late spring to summer, this species produces clusters of brilliant blue flowers over ferny foliage.

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    Corydalis elata

    Corydalis elata

    This fragrant, blue-flowered species is more vigorous and heat tolerant than the blue cultivars.

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    White cedar

    Chamaecyparis thyoides ‘Heatherbun’

    This evergreen, coniferous tree has flattened sprays of scale-like adult leaves.

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    Seersucker sedge

    Carex plantaginea

    Seersucker sedge is an evergreen, spreading sedge with narrow brown-black flowers on 8-inch stems in spring.

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    Giant dogwood

    Cornus controversa 'Variegata'

    This rounded, deciduous tree with spreading, tiered branches is especially dramatic in the landscape.

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    Calamint

    Calamintha grandiflora 'Variegata'

    A well-behaved perennial from the mint family (Lamiaceae), variegated calamint has pale-green, oval leaves with strong white marbling.

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    Eastern redbud

    Cercis canadensis and cvs.

    Bright purplish-pink blooms are borne in clusters, before the leaves, along smooth gray branches.