Mid-Atlantic Plants
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Plant Guide‘Wonder of Staffa’ aster
Aster × frikartii 'Wonder of Staffa'This repeat-blooming aster produces bright, 2-inch-wide, violet-blue flowers from mid-summer into fall.
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Plant GuideWhite enkianthus
Enkianthus perulatusThis is perhaps the most refined Enkianthus, bearing dainty, white pendulous bells in May.
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Plant GuideSweet William catchfly
Silene armeriaSweet William catchfly's vivid dark pink flower clusters beautify the garden in late summer.
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Plant GuideRussian comfrey
Symphytum × uplandicum ‘Axminster Gold’This notably beautiful plant produces huge, elongated banana-shaped leaves, which are arfully edged in luminescent yellow.
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Plant Guide
Royal catchfly
Silene regiaThis North American prairie native produces 2-inch-wide, brilliant cardinal-red flowers that stand out in the summer garden.
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Plant GuideBlack elder
Sambucus nigraBlack elder forms an upright and bushy, but somewhat coarse, shrub with toothed green leaves.
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Plant GuideViburnum eskimo
Viburnam 'Eskimo'The 'Eskimo' viburnum is an extraordinary flowering shrub with stunning parents ( V.
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Plant GuideEmperor I® Japanese maple
Acer palmatum ‘Wolff’I’ll never forget when, in the mid-1990s, I called up a renowned nurseryman in Pennsylvania with questions about a holly, and he shifted the conversation to a new Japanese maple…
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Plant GuideIlex verticillata ‘Sunsplash’
Ilex verticillata 'Sunsplash'The one thing that I always thought would make winterberry a more interesting plant is better foliage.
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Plant GuideJapanese stewartia
Stewartia pseudocamelliaA multistemmed, deciduous tree with a rounded columnar form, stewartia features stunning bark that exfoliates in strips of gray, orange, and reddish brown once the trunk attains a diameter of…
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