Early Summer - Page 5 of 45 - Fine Gardening
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Plant Guide‘Sea Shells’ cosmos
Cosmos bipinnatus ‘Sea Shells’This unique annual produces quilled blossoms of hollow, tube-shaped petals that radiate from the center in shades of white, pink, or carmine red.
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Plant Guide‘Zagreb’ Thread-leaved tickseed
Corepsis verticillata ‘Zagreb''Zagreb' produces star-like blossoms in egg-yolk yellow in early summer on plants 12 inches tall and wide.
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Plant GuideMountain bluet
Centaurea montanaMountain bluet is an excellent choice for the border or rock garden.
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Plant GuideFairies’ thimbles
Campanula cochleariifoliaDiminutive (to 2 inches tall) spikes bear lavender-blue nodding flowers that sway in the breeze.
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Plant GuideWine-cups
Callirhoë involucrata
This plant resembles a rosy-purple poppy mallow that blooms all summer.
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Plant Guide
‘Chocolate Chip’ baptisia
Baptisia 'Chocolate Chip'This perennial produces milk chocolate-colored flowering buds that open in spring with golden yellow petals over blue-green foliage.
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Plant GuideAngel’s trumpet
Brugmansia suaveolensFew plants evoke tropicalia quite like the Brugmansias , with their voluminous tubular flowers that drip from imposing shrubs or small trees.
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Plant GuideEnglish daisy
Bellis perennisEnglish daisy bears stems topped with a single white, daisy-like flower.
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Plant Guide‘Rogers’ bottlebrush buckeye
Aesculus parviflora var. serotina 'Rogers'This is a suckering, deciduous shrub grown for it's white, bottlebrush-like flowers in early summer.
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Plant GuideRocky Mountain columbine
Aquilegia caeruleaRocky Mountain columbine is a beautiful, hearty, native perennial with blue and white flowers.
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