Midwest Plants
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Plant Guide‘Carnaval de Nice’ tulip
Tulipa ‘Carnaval de Nice’For later-blooming flowers with ornamental foliage, try Tulipa 'Carnaval de Nice'.
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Plant Guide
Tulip
Tulipa linifoliaThis species tulip blooms in mid- to late spring with fire-engine-red flowers that look like open, pointed stars with purple centers.
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Plant Guide
Mr. Bowling Ball® American arborvitae
Thuja occidentalis 'Bobazam'This evergreen shrub with finely textured sage green foliage forms a perfect, 3-foot-diameter, slow-growing globe, hence its name, Mr.
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Plant GuideBent trillium
Trillium flexipesThis 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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Plant GuideChenault coralberry
Symphoricarpos × chenaultii ‘Hancock’Chenault coralberry is an undemanding workhorse.
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Plant GuideJapanese falsecypress
Chamaecyparis pisifera 'Sungold'This dwarf Chamaecyparis has a weeping habit and gold to lime green finely-textured needles.
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Plant GuideEuropean beech
Fagus sylvatica
An excellent shade tree, this European-native deciduous tree grows to 80 feet tall and 50 feet wide and features an upright, oval form and dark shiny green leaves that turn…
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Plant GuideSnow-in-summer
Cerastium tomentosumSnow-in-summer is great for rock gardens and dry areas, and also works well as a container plant.
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Plant GuideGrape-leaf anemone
Anemone tomentosa 'Robustissima'This anemone grows 24 to 32 inches tall with single, light violet-pink flowers.
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Plant Guide‘Margarete’ Japanese anemone
Anemone × hybrida 'Margarete'This beautiful, medium pink, semi-double-flowered anemone has exceptionally large blooms from mid- to late-September through October on stems 28 to 32 inches tall.
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