Early Summer - Page 20 of 45 - Fine Gardening

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    Allwood hybrids

    Dianthus × allwoodii

    These modern hybrids bear salmon-pink blossoms ('Doris' has scarlet in the center) and bloom freely with moderate fragrance.

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    Rüütel™ clematis

    Clematis 'Kiviruut'

    When I first saw the crimson flowers of Rüütel™ (‘Kiviruut’) in 2009, I was like a wide-eyed kid experiencing a Christmas miracle.

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    ‘Karl Foerster’ feather reed grass

    Calamagrostis x acutiflora 'Karl Foerster'

    This versatile ornamental grass has slender, upright, deep-green foliage. Information provided by Santa Rosa Gardens.

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    Flower Carpet® Pink Supreme

    Rosa × ‘NOA168098F’

    Each bush is covered in a mass explosion of vivid pink blooms all summer long.

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    Easy Does It™ rose

    Rosa 'HARpageant' 'Easy Does It'™

    This Floribunda rose was the 2010 All-America Rose Selections winner.

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    Common periwinkle, creeping myrtle

    Vinca minor 'Illumination'

    Like other creeping myrtles, 'Illumination' is a tough evergreen ground cover for shade that will grow in almost any soil.

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    Viola ‘Etain’

    Viola ‘Etain’

    A hardworking, compact perennial, ‘Etain’ violet forms well-behaved clumps and blooms from time to time from spring through fall.

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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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    Purple mullein

    Verbascum phoeniceum

    This biennial or short-lived perennial species is one of the earliest mulleins to bloom.

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    Swamp haw

    Viburnum nudum

    This plant produces a myriad of tiny white flowers set in wide, stalked flower heads.