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Plant Guide
‘Alaska Mix’ nasturtium
Tropaeolum majus ‘Alaska Mix’This old-fashioned cultivar of the species has a mounding habit and grows 10-12 inches tall.
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Plant Guide‘Black Snowflake’ Foam flower
Tiarella 'Black Snowflake'This clump-forming variety has very dramatic, deeply cut foliage with wide black veins that looks like a black snowflake when new.
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Plant Guide
‘Oakleaf’ Foam flower
Tiarella wherryi 'Oakleaf'This cultivar of the North American species has reddish, deeply lobed, oak-like leaves that mature to dark green with burgundy splashes.
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Plant Guide
English wild thyme
Thymus praecox subsp. britannicusThis thyme grows to 6 inches tall, with fuzzy stems and tiny, rounded, fuzzy blue-green leaves.
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Plant Guide‘Miss Canada’ Preston lilac
Syringa × prestoniae ‘Miss Canada’This hardy, late-flowering hybrid bears perfumed rose-pink buds opening to pink flowers.
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Plant GuideBlue-eyed grass
Sisyrinchium graminoidesThis clump forming, semi-evergreen, grass-like perennial blooms in summer, with a long succession of yellow-centered blue flowers.
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Plant GuideRocky stonecrop
Sedum rupestreThis is a vigorous, mat-forming evergreen species with small gray-green leaves and terminal clusters of star-shaped, vibrant yellow flowers in summer.
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Plant Guide
‘Blue Hill’ meadow sage
Salvia × sylvestris 'Blue Hill'This drought-tolerant perennial bears abundant pure blue flower spikes in early summer and until fall if spent flowers are removed promptly.
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Plant GuideMealycup sage
Salvia farinacea
This perennial forms a shrubby upright clump 2 feet tall by 1 foot wide, with white mealy stems and glossy green leaves.
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