Medium to Wet - Page 2 of 11 - Fine Gardening

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    Bowles’ golden sedge

    Carex elata 'Aurea'

    This beautiful sedge's vivid foliage adds bright color to the garden.

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    ‘Elegantissima’ redtwig dogwood

    Cornus alba ‘Elegantissima’

    This vigorous deciduous shrub provides a long season of interest in the garden with its variegated leaves, attractive berries, pretty fall color, and red winter stems.

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    ‘Sweet Dreams’ coreopsis

    Coreopsis rosea 'Sweet Dreams'

    The bicolored, white-tipped and raspberry-centered blooms are large (1 to 1.

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    Lawson false cypress

    Chamaecyparis lawsoniana ‘Ellwoodii’

    This plant has a cypress-like, densely conical form with erect feathery branches of ovate blue-gray juvenile leaves.

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    Broad-leaf sedge

    Carex siderosticha 'Variegata'

    This sedge's pearly, straplike leaves resemble striped ribbon waiting to be wrapped around a package.

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    Angel’s trumpet

    Brugmansia suaveolens

    Few plants evoke tropicalia quite like the Brugmansias , with their voluminous tubular flowers that drip from imposing shrubs or small trees.

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    Tickseed sunflower

    Bidens aristosa

    This fast-growing annual of the Midwestern wet meadows grows to 4 or 5 feet tall.

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    Astilboides tabularis

    Astilboides tabularis

    This unique species bears large, rounded leaves that resemble lily pads and seem to defy gravity.

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    Hibiscus manihot

    Abelmoschus manihot

    A large ornamental okra with dinner-plate-sized, sulfur yellow flowers with dark eyes.

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    Creeping Jenny

    Lysimachia nummularia

    Creeping Jenny is a low-growing, rampant, evergreen ground cover with rounded leaves.