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Plant GuideChinese spinach
Amaranthus tricolor and cvs.This hardy annual has vibrant, ornamental red, yellow, and green foliage that lends a tropical effect to the garden.
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Plant Guide
Chaste tree
Vitex agnus-castusThis small tree boasts an upright, spreading form and finely dissected gray-green foliage.
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Plant Guide‘Sunray’ coreopsis
Coreopsis grandiflora ‘Sunray’'Sunray' coreopsis has double to semi-double yellow flowers that begin blooming in late spring and continue throughout the summer.
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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 Guide‘The Rocket’ elephant’s ear
Ligularia stenocephala 'The Rocket'The aptly named ‘The Rocket’ is virtually indestructible if sited in damp shade.
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Plant GuideDahlia ‘Zorro’
Dahlia 'Zorro'For a change of pace, 'Zorro' looks fantastic floating stemless in a bowl of water.
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Plant GuideTexas sage
Salvia coccineaThis upright tender perennial provides rich color for annual bedding schemes where it is not hardy.
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Plant Guide
Blue beard, blue-mist shrub
Caryopteris × clandonensis 'Longwood Blue''Longwood Blue' is ideal for a mixed or shrub border.
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Plant GuideFalse chamomile
Boltonia asteroides 'Snowbank'
Boltonias are vigorous perennials grown for their sprays of aster-like flowers, which appear above clean, gray-green foliage.
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Plant GuideIndigofera, Pinkflower, Chinese indigo
Indigofera amblyanthaThis deciduous shrub growing to 6 feet tall and 8 feet wide bears erect racemes of pea-like, pink flowers from summer to early fall above leaves composed of several leaflets.
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