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    ‘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 pachycarpa

    Angelica 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 × frikartii

    This plant flowers profusely and for an exceptionally long time, from early summer to mid-fall.

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    Spikenard

    Aralia racemosa

    This is a vigorous grower.

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    East Indies aster

    Aster tongolensis

    This 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 amblyantha

    This 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 crenata

    This dense, evergreen holly reaches 6 to 10 feet tall and at least as wide.