Early Spring - Page 5 of 12 - Fine Gardening

  • Plant Guide

    ‘Jade Dragon’ euphorbia

    Euphorbia ‘Jade Dragon’

    This plant makes a riveting focal point in the border, with golden bracts with red centers that open just above the burgundy-tinted, dark green leaves in spring to summer.

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    Epimedium stellulatum ‘Wudang Star’

    Epimedium stellulatum 'Wudang Star'

    'Wudang Star' is a clump-forming, evergreen perennial with spiny, glossy foliage.

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    Euphorbia palustris

    Euphorbia palustris

    This robust perennial forms a large shrub that adds a nice textural element to the back of the border.

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    Fairy Magnolia

    Michelia x MicJUR01 'Fairy Magnolia' 

    A Michelia hybrid, bred in New Zealand by Mark Jury, with beautiful lightly fragrant flowers blushed lilac pink and evergreen dark green foliage.

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    White calla lily

    Zantedeschia aethiopica

    The most familiar calla, this 3-foot-tall and 2-foot-wide plant has large white flowers—up to 10 inches long—that surround a creamy yellow fingerlike centerpiece.

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    Viburnum × burkwoodii ‘Mohawk’

    Viburnum × burkwoodii 'Mohawk'

    This shrub has a compact, rounded form, growing 8-10 feet tall and wide.

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    Blue woolly speedwell

    Veronica pectinata

    This dense, mat-forming species has 3-inch-tall evergreen foliage with toothed gray leaves.

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    ‘Spring Symphony’ Foam flower

    Tiarella 'Spring Symphony'

    This reblooming, clump-forming variety blooms in spring, producing 15-inch spires densely packed with pink blossoms.

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    ‘Pink Chintz’ thyme

    Thymus serpyllum ‘Pink Chintz’

    One of the first thymes to flower each year, this charming and reliable cultivar bursts into bloom in early spring with unique salmon-pink flowers.

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    ‘Henri Robert’ lilac

    Syringa vulgaris ‘Henri Robert’

    This cultivar has double bluish-purple flowers that open from violet buds in midseason.