Purple/Burgundy - Page 15 of 20 - Fine Gardening
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Plant Guide‘Grace’ smoke tree
Cotinus ‘Grace’This cross of the European smoke bush (C. coggygria) and the American smoke tree (C. obovatus) is a gem in the garden.
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Plant GuideBoer love grass
Eragrostis chloromelasFrom late spring until fall, Boer love grass puts on a glorious display as inflorescences that emerge silver and dry to gold dance up to 2 feet above the fine-textured clump of…
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Plant GuideNinebark
Physocarpus opulifolius 'Center Glow'
This ninebark's new leaves unfurl a golden yellow and then mature to a rosy red-burgundy.
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Plant Guide‘Aurea’ hinoki cypress
Chamaecyparis obtusa ‘Aurea’Hinoki cypress is a conical, evergreen, coniferous tree with leaves that are actually minute scales on tiny branches in the form of fans.
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Plant GuideBloody dock
Rumex sanguineusBloody dock, also known as red-veined dock, is a taprooted perennial with a rosette of leaves distinctively marked with deep red or purple veins.
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Plant GuideHairy loosestrife
Lysimachia ciliata 'Firecracker'Hairy loosestrife has dark burgundy- to chocolate-colored foliage that spreads to form large clumps but is generally not invasive.
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Plant GuideGiant dracaena
Cordyline australis ‘Purple Tower’'Purple Tower' is a cultivar of the New Zealand native cabbage tree, frequently grown in greenhouses, as houseplants, or as large accent plants outdoors.
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Plant GuideSwiss chard
Beta vulgaris 'Ruby Red'This is a sweet Swiss chard with beautiful candy-apple-red stalks and dark green, crinkly leaves with touches of red.
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Plant GuideBeet
Beta vulgaris 'Bull's Blood'This heirloom beet from 1840 is primarily grown for its tender, sweet, deep red-burgundy foliage, but the beets are tasty when harvested at the 2- to 3-inch size.
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Plant Guide‘Red Threads’ alternanthera
Alternanthera ficoidea ‘Red Threads’Grow ‘Red Threads’ as a warm-season annual in cooler climates, or mass the plants in beds, or use them in a formal knot garden as the Victorians did.
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