Late Spring - Page 19 of 31 - Fine Gardening

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    Muscari Paradoxum

    Muscari paradoxum

    The flowers of this grape hyacinth are stunning, reaching 8 to 12 inches tall.

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    ‘Blue Spike’ grape hyacinth

    Muscari armeniacum 'Blue Spike'

    These double-flowered grape hyacinths are a good candidate for beds and borders because they increase only by division.

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    Snow-in-summer

    Cerastium tomentosum

    Snow-in-summer is great for rock gardens and dry areas, and also works well as a container plant.

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    ‘Esperanto’ tulip

    Tulipa ‘Esperanto’

    Tulipa 'Esperanto' has white-bordered leaves, but it is unique with its long-lasting deep rose red and dark green streaked flowers, which stand 10 to 12 inches tall.

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    ‘Venus’ sweetshrub

    Calycanthus 'Venus'

    This deciduous shrub to 8-10 feet tall and wide blooms from late spring through July with 3- to 4-inch-wide, white, fragrant, magnolia-like blossoms with purple centers.

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    Apache plume

    Fallugia paradoxa

    A member of the rose family (Rosaceae), Apache plume has single, white, rose-like flowers in a fine-textured shrub up to 5 feet tall and 8 feet wide.

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    Desert ruellia

    Ruellia peninsularis

    This southern California native shrub produces a dense mass of small, glossy leaves and purple, petunia-like flowers in late spring and early summer.

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    Shrubby cinquefoil

    Potentilla fruticosa

    Shrubby cinquefoil is a bushy deciduous shrub growing to 3 feet tall and 5 feet wide that has been bred to include a multitude of cultivars that bear flowers in a…

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    ‘Jim’s Pride’ daphne

    Daphne × transatlantica 'Jim's Pride'

    This small shrub to 3-4 feet tall and wide blooms from late spring to fall with a liberal sprinkling of small, white, highly fragrant flowers over grey-green leaves that form…

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    Summer Wine ninebark

    Physocarpus opulifolius 'Seward'

    Many gardeners know ninebark as an undistinguished shrub with ordinary green leaves, white flowers, and fall fruit.