Purple/Burgundy - Page 17 of 20 - Fine Gardening

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    Canna ‘Sémaphore’

    Canna 'Sémaphore'

    Growing to 6 or 7 feet, 'Sémaphore' features slender, dark-bronze leaves topped by spikes of narrow-petaled flowers of an unusual glowing color that's not quite yellow and not quite orange; perhaps…

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    Canna ‘Madame Paul Caseneuve’

    Canna 'Madame Paul Caseneuve'

    A great canna to start with if you're convinced you hate them is 'Madame Paul Caseneuve', from 1902.

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    ‘Ruby Ruffles’ coleus

    Plectranthus scutellarioides ‘Ruby Ruffles’

    ‘Ruby Ruffles’ has frilly, fingery foliage with ruby centers and chartreuse edges.

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    Colorado blue spruce

    Picea pungens ‘Procumbens’

    'Procumbens' is similar to 'Pendula' in color but prostrate in habit, with cascading branches sometimes staying stiffly horizontal.

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    New Zealand flax

    Phormium tenax

    An excellent architectural specimen, New Zealand flax has a striking geometric shape and intriguingly colored foliage.

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    Two-row stonecrop

    Sedum spurium ‘Fuldaglut’

    This mat-forming species forms a carpet of rosy-red flowers in late July and August, contrasting against green leaves with bronzy-maroon highlights.

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    ‘Blue Star’ singleseed juniper

    Juniperus squamata 'Blue Star'

    'Blue Star' jumiper is a slow-growing, compact, evergreen shrub with a mounding shape.

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    Marjoram

    Origanum laevigatum and cvs.

    This plant is a creeping perennial that reaches 24 inches tall.

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    Basil

    Ocimum basilicum

    The herb of kings combines superbly with roses.

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    ‘Snowflake’ oakleaf hydrangea

    Hydrangea quercifolia ‘Snowflake’

    This cultivar has large flower heads of intricate double blossoms layered on top of one another.