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    Snowy woodrush

    Luzula nivea

    This spreading evergreen perennial has clumps of grass-like deep green basal leaves.

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    Loropetalum chinense f. rubrum ‘Ruby’

    Loropetalum chinense f. rubrum 'Ruby'

    This evergreen bushy shrub has fragrant, spider-like pink flowers borne in cymes in late winter or early spring.

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    Southern Moon® Yedda Hawthorn

    Rhaphiolepis umbellata

    An exceptional, improved selection!

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    Cool Splash™ bush honeysuckle

    Diervilla sessifolia 'LPDC Podaras'

    A small shady nook is one of the hardest areas in which to design a garden.

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    Emperor I® Japanese maple

    Acer palmatum ‘Wolff’

    I’ll never forget when, in the mid-1990s, I called up a renowned nurseryman in Pennsylvania with questions about a holly, and he shifted the conversation to a new Japanese maple…

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    Ilex verticillata ‘Sunsplash’

    Ilex verticillata 'Sunsplash'

    The one thing that I always thought would make winterberry a more interesting plant is better foliage.

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    ‘Calidora’ elephant’s ear

    Alocasia ‘Calidora’

    ‘Calidora’ produces big ribbed foliage that looks like it could have fanned Cleopatra once upon a time.

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    ‘Diamond Head’ elephant’s ear

    Colocasia esculenta ‘Diamond Head’

    When breeder John Cho combined a black Colocasia and a glossy Colocasia, he created something shiny and new: ‘Diamond Head’.

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    ‘Thailand Giant’ elephant’s ear

    Colocasia esculenta ‘Thailand Giant’

    ‘Thailand Giant’ is, undoubtedly, the plant with the largest foliage in the aroid (Araceae) family. within the last decade. 6 feet long and 3 feet wide in one season under…

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    Fish-scale sedum

    Sedum tetractinum

    Plant a succulent sedum in the shade?