Early Summer - Page 30 of 45 - Fine Gardening
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Plant GuidePurple sheep’s burr
Acaena inermis 'Purpurea'This New Zealand native subshrub has 3-inch-wide scalloped leaves and little purple-brown to pale olive leaflets.
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Plant GuideBlack Beauty™ elderberry
Sambucus nigra 'Gerda'Valued for its flowers, foliage, and fruit, Black Beauty™ elderberry is a deciduous shrub that requires regular watering during its first few yearsbut will become more drought tolerant as it…
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Plant Guide‘Black Scallop’ bugleweed
Ajuga reptans 'Black Scallop'Black foliage and spiky blue flowers (which appear in early summer) make a dramatic contrast.
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Plant GuideDiabolo® ninebark
Physocarpus opulifolius ‘Monlo’With its upright, arching branches and dark chocolate to purple foliage, Diabolo® ninebark offers a color contrast with silver-leaved plants and makes a fine backdrop hedge.
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Plant Guide‘Little Trudy’ catmint
Nepeta Little Trudy™This new compact catmint, with the cultivar name 'Psfike', only reaches 8 to 10 inches tall and 12 to 16 inches wide, the perfect size for containers, bed edges, or…
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Plant GuideBaptisia × variicolor Twilite Prairieblues™
Baptisia × variicolor Twilite Prairieblues™This amazing baptisia is a cross between B.
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Plant GuideSapphire jewelweed
Impatiens namchabarwensisSapphire jewelweed's serrated leaves are the color of polished jade, while the flowers are a remarkable sapphire blue.
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Plant Guide‘Pink Caprice’ lantana
Lantana camara 'Pink Caprice'
The pale pink and yellow flowers of this evergreen perennial attract butterflies from late spring to frost.
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Plant Guide‘Grace’ smoke tree
Cotinus ‘Grace’This cross of the European smoke bush (C. coggygria) and the American smoke tree (C. obovatus) is a gem in the garden.
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Plant GuideBoer love grass
Eragrostis chloromelasFrom late spring until fall, Boer love grass puts on a glorious display as inflorescences that emerge silver and dry to gold dance up to 2 feet above the fine-textured clump of…
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