Early Spring - Fine Gardening
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Plant GuideVerbascum ‘Sugar Plum’
Verbascum 'Sugar Plum'This dwarf mullein is just 15 inches tall but it packs a big floral punch.
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Plant Guide
Propeller toad shade
Trillium stamineumThis striking spring-blooming species features narrow, chocolate-colored petals that twist like a propeller over slightly mottled leaves.
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Plant Guide
Giant trillium
Trillium chloropetalumThis species blooms in early to mid-spring with large blossoms of white, yellow, or deep purple-black.
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Plant Guide‘Neon Lights’ Foam flower
Tiarella 'Neon Lights'This clump-forming variety has exquisitely textured, bright green maple-like leaves emblazoned with chocolate centers.
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Plant Guide‘Dark Eyes’ Foam flower
Tiarella 'Dark Eyes'This running cultivar has notably large light-pink flowers that appear in spring and then rebloom.
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Plant GuideIndian grass
Sorghastrum nutans 'Indian Steel'
Golden yellow plumes and a vase-like form give 'Indian Steel' a refined look.
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Plant Guide
Winter daphne
Daphne odoraThis evergreen species produces rose-purple buds that open to white and are intensely and exotically fragrant.
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Plant GuideFumewort
Corydalis solidaThis species produces mauve-pink, purple, or white flower spikes in spring over deeply divided gray-green leaves that are barely 10 inches tall.
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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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