Self Seeds - Page 2 of 19 - Fine Gardening

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    Bent trillium

    Trillium flexipes

    This trillium produces large white flowers above the foliage in mid-spring, but the flowers are later hidden as the flower stalks nod.

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    Common Foxglove

    Digitalis purpurea 'Pam's Choice'

    This is a biennial or short-lived perennial, which may last longer and rebloom if deadheaded.

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    Sunset foxglove

    Digitalis obscura

    This foxglove has long-lasting flowers in seductive shades of burnt umber.

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    Large-flowered tickseed

    Coreopsis grandiflora

    As the name implies, this species bears large, daisy-like blossoms (2.

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    American beautyberry

    Callicarpa americana

    Although it produces small, lavender-pink flowers in spring, this plant is known mainly for its violet to magenta berries, which start appearing in October.

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    Fumewort

    Corydalis solida

    This species produces mauve-pink, purple, or white flower spikes in spring over deeply divided gray-green leaves that are barely 10 inches tall.

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    Chamomile

    Chamaemelum nobile and cvs.

    A hardy perennial, chamomile has aromatic, threadlike leaves that fill the air with a pleasing apple-pineapple scent.

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    Spring beauty

    Claytonia virginica

    This low-growing, spring-blooming succulent touts 5-petaled, pale-pink striped flowers with strap-like foliage that continues to grow after bloom but disappears in late spring when the plants go into dormancy.

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    Bachelor’s buttons

    Centaurea cyanus

    Bachelor's buttons bear charming and prolific flowers in hues of blue, pink, lavender, white, and maroon.

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    ‘Sea Shells’ cosmos

    Cosmos bipinnatus ‘Sea Shells’

    This unique annual produces quilled blossoms of hollow, tube-shaped petals that radiate from the center in shades of white, pink, or carmine red.