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Plant Guide
‘Purple Knight’ calico plant
Alternanthera dentata ‘Purple Knight’This dark-leaved, tropical foliage plant loves heat, and is useful spreading through a bed, border, or in a container where its deep purple leaves can contrast with brightly colored flowers…
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‘Frydek’ elephant’s ear
Alocasia micholitziana ‘Frydek’Satiny deep green to black leaves and glowing white veins on 18-inch-long leaves make this elephant’s ear great in containers, in a shady border, at the edge of a pond,…
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Grassy-leaved sweet flag
Acorus gramineus 'Variegatus'This aquatic perennial is semi-evergreen and showy, with grassy, striped foliage that reaches less than 1 foot tall.
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Shiny-leaved angelica
Angelica pachycarpaAngelica is a striking ornamental biennial or short-lived perennial with jade green, glossy, bold leaves and large umbels of white flowers.
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Aster × frikartii
Aster × frikartiiThis plant flowers profusely and for an exceptionally long time, from early summer to mid-fall.
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East Indies aster
Aster tongolensisThis is a mat-forming aster with thick, almost leafless stems that support solitary, violet-blue ray florets and orange-yellow disk florets.
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Snapdragons
Antirrhinum majus
This plant produces upright racemes of two-lipped flowers with spreading, rounded lobes in a vast arrray of warm colors.
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Indigofera, 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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Japanese holly
Ilex crenataThis dense, evergreen holly reaches 6 to 10 feet tall and at least as wide.