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Plant GuideBlanket flower
Gaillardia pulchellaBlanket flower is a bushy annual that produces red or yellow (or red and yellow) flowers over a long season.
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Plant GuideHardy garden mum
Chrysanthemum morifoliumThere would be few cut flowers blooming in October were it not for hardy garden mums.
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Plant GuideShowy stonecrop
Sedum spectabile
An upright species to 18 inches tall and wide, this plant bears pink flowers in August that persist into fall.
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Plant GuideCarnation
Dianthus 'Neon Star'This hybrid has a compact, mounding habit, with silvery-blue foliage and fluorescent pink toothed flowers, which continue blooming with deadheading.
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Plant GuideOrnamental onion, Allium senescens
Allium senescensThis plant has thin, strap-like foliage that tends to twist.
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Plant Guide‘Sunrise’ coneflower
Echinacea ‘Sunrise’This is one of the exceptional Big Sky™ series (E.
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Plant GuideStonecrop
Sedum ‘Ruby Glow’In summer to late summer, this low-growing Sedum has rosy-red flowers atop small, fleshy blue-green leaves with ruddy highlights.
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Plant GuideChinese fringetree
Chionanthus retususThis species is grown for its billowy clusters of fragrant white blossoms, which appear in May or June.
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Plant Guide
Abyssinian gladiolus
Acidanthera bicolor var. murielaeEach flowering stem of this bulb produces eight to twelve flowers that open consecutively over a period of three to four weeks.
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Plant GuideSummer Wave® Blue wishbone flower
Torenia 'SUNrenilabu'This compact plant produces abundant blue, tubular, two-lipped flowers from planting time until frost.
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