Early Summer - Fine Gardening
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Plant Guide‘Strawberry Fields’ gomphrena
Gomphrena haageana ‘Strawberry Fields’An upright, bushy annual with flowers (actually bracts) that resemble bright red strawberries with tiny yellow "seeds.
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Plant Guide‘Angelina’ sedum
Sedum rupestre ‘Angelina’This vigorous, mat-forming, evergreen species has electric golden-yellow foliage that holds its color through the heat of summer.
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Plant Guide‘Chocolate Shogun’ astilbe
Astilbe ‘Chocolate Shogun’'Chocolate Shogun' astilbe features unique dark purple-brown foliage that creates long-lasting color in any partial sun to shade garden.
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Plant Guide‘Old Fashioned’ smokebush
Cotinus coggygria ‘Old Fashioned’Excellent fall coloring and a smaller size set this smokebush apart.
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Sponsored Content‘Peach Drift’ Rose
Rosa 'Meiggili'The Peach Drift® Rose is one of the most floriferous dwarf shrubs available. Soft peach blooms cover the plant from mid-spring to the first hard freeze of late Fall. Peach…
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Plant Guide
Hardy hummingbird trumpet
Zauschneria arizonicaThis heat-loving native Southwestern species has gray-green leaves and grows to 3 feet tall and 2 feet wide.
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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
Dense-flowered mullein
Verbascum densiflorumThis biennial or short-lived, semi-evergreen perennial forms rosettes of leaves densely covered with grayish-yellow hairs.
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Plant GuideCulver’s root
Veronicastrum virginicum
This species has multiple tapering, soft spikes of white to pale pink or bluish purple flowers that look like elegant, living candelabras.
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Plant Guide
Chaste tree
Vitex agnus-castusThis small tree boasts an upright, spreading form and finely dissected gray-green foliage.
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