Characteristics - Page 29 of 128 - Fine Gardening
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Plant Guide
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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‘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 flexuosaFrom late spring to summer, this species produces clusters of brilliant blue flowers over ferny foliage.
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Corydalis elata
Corydalis elataThis 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 plantagineaSeersucker 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.