Mountain West 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 GuideAlpine pink
Dianthus alpinusClusters of serrated single blooms in pink to dark crimson sit just off the ground in summer.
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Plant Guide‘Oheme’ palm sedge
Carex muskingumensis ‘Oehme’With its yellow-trimmed foliage, ‘Oehme’ is truly the palm sedge with an edge.
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Plant GuideNootka false cypress
Chamaecyparis nootkatensis ‘Pendula’This is a conical tree with drooping branches and vertical, flattened sprays of bluish green to dark green foliage.
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Plant GuideLady’s mantle
Alchemilla mollisThis plant has lobed, densely hairy, chartreuse foliage that is crimped at the edges.
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Plant GuideGeum triflorum
Geum triflorumThis prairie native bears nodding, pinkish-maroon flowers in spring, followed by seed heads that resemble wisps of cotton candy and connote the plant's common name.
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