Characteristics - Page 4 of 128 - Fine Gardening
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Plant GuideTexas hummingbird mint
Agastache canaThis is a 36-inch-tall hyssop with showy rose-pink flower spikes in late summer and fall and licorice-mint scented foliage.
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Plant GuideFrench lavender
Lavandula stoechasThis early-blooming compact shrub bears intriguing pine-cone-shaped flowers that have dark-purple bracts, or “rabbit ears.
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Plant GuideTutsan
Hypericum androsaemum 'Albury Purple'
This is a bushy, deciduous shrub with upright branches.
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Plant GuideSalvia pachyphylla
Salvia pachyphylla
Giant-flowered purple sage has been winning over gardeners the past few years for its remarkable summer blooms and tough-as-nails demeanor.
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Plant GuideDwarf common sage
Salvia officinalis 'Minimus'Dwarf common sage is a tightly compact form of the culinary common sage ( S.
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Plant GuideRussian comfrey
Symphytum × uplandicum ‘Axminster Gold’This notably beautiful plant produces huge, elongated banana-shaped leaves, which are arfully edged in luminescent yellow.
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Plant GuideMeadow clary
Salvia pratensisThis woody-stemmed perennial produces sticky spikes of deep violet or, rarely, white to pink flowers.
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Plant Guide
Colorful Flowering Sage
Salvia nemorosaThis drought-tolerant perennial produces flower spikes in shades of violet, purple, or white to pink, with purple bracts.
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Plant GuidePrairie dropseed
Sporobolus heterolepsis
The finely textured, green leaves of this slow-growing, clump-forming perennial turn golden yellow in autumn.
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Plant GuideLavender cotton
Santolina chamaecyparissusThis fine-textured, mound-forming shrub has gray foliage and yellow, button-like flowerheads formed by tubular flowers appearing in summer.
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