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Plant Guide‘Pumila’ pampas grass
Cortaderia selloana ‘Pumila”This dwarf cultivar has mid-green leaves and densely tufted plumes atop tall, upright stalks and arching mid-green leaves.
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Plant Guide
Spring beauty
Claytonia virginicaThis low-growing, spring-blooming succulent touts 5-petaled, pale-pink striped flowers with strap-like foliage that continues to grow after bloom but disappears in late spring when the plants go into dormancy.
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Plant GuideCreeping Goldenstar
Chrysogonum virginianum ‘Eco-Lacquered Spider’Goldenstar is a creeping groundcover with long, reddish-green leaf stalks and opposite, heart-shaped, hairy mid-green leaves.
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Plant Guide‘Sea Shells’ cosmos
Cosmos bipinnatus ‘Sea Shells’This unique annual produces quilled blossoms of hollow, tube-shaped petals that radiate from the center in shades of white, pink, or carmine red.
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Plant Guide‘Zagreb’ Thread-leaved tickseed
Corepsis verticillata ‘Zagreb''Zagreb' produces star-like blossoms in egg-yolk yellow in early summer on plants 12 inches tall and wide.
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Plant GuideFairies’ thimbles
Campanula cochleariifoliaDiminutive (to 2 inches tall) spikes bear lavender-blue nodding flowers that sway in the breeze.
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Plant GuideWine-cups
Callirhoë involucrata
This plant resembles a rosy-purple poppy mallow that blooms all summer.
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Plant Guide
‘Chocolate Chip’ baptisia
Baptisia 'Chocolate Chip'This perennial produces milk chocolate-colored flowering buds that open in spring with golden yellow petals over blue-green foliage.
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Plant GuideWrinkled giant hyssop, Korean hyssop, purple giant hyssop
Agastache rugosaThis 4-foot-tall and 18-ich-wide, bushy perennial, very similar to the more common anise hyssop ( Agastache foeniculum ) has strongly mint-and-licorice-scented leaves and short spikes of lavender-blue flowers from midsummer to…
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Plant Guide‘Wonder of Staffa’ aster
Aster × frikartii 'Wonder of Staffa'This repeat-blooming aster produces bright, 2-inch-wide, violet-blue flowers from mid-summer into fall.
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