Southwest Plants
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Plant GuideKunth’s maiden fern
Thelypteris kunthiiThis robust fern with graceful light green foliage on triangular fronds a foot wide grows 3 to 4 feet tall with equal spread.
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Plant Guide
New Zealand wind grass
Stipa arundinaceaThis evergreen species makes a handsome specimen with narrow, arching foliage that is streaked orange in summer and becomes orange-brown in winter.
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Plant Guide
Double Japanese aster
Kalimeris pinnatifidaThis upright bushy perennial has softly hairy, mid-green lower leaves to 3 inches long and lance-shaped upper leaves to 1 inch long.
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Plant GuideCut-leaved toothwort
Cardamine laciniataCut-leaved toothwort has sharply cut foliage and single white, lavender, or pink nodding flowers that bloom in early spring.
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Plant GuideGold angel’s trumpet
Brugmansia 'Charles Grimaldi'Foot-long blossoms are nocturnally fragrant, and pour out from narrow calyces of light yellow, to terminate in fluted, reflexed openings the hues of golden summer squash.
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Plant GuideGrass lily
Anthericum saundersiaeThis plant's foot-tall clumps produce white lily-like flowers on thin, arching stems.
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Plant GuideFoxtail lily
Eremurus robustusThis species produces very tall spires of pale pink flowers with yellow stamens atop leafless stems that puncture vertical space with unmatched elegance.
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Plant Guide
Dicentra scandens ‘Athens Yellow’
Dicentra scandens 'Athens Yellow'Bright yellow heart-shaped flowers bloom in April or May; bloom continues off and on throughout the season.
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Plant Guide‘Fireworks’ goldenrod
Solidago rugosa 'Fireworks'This eye-catching cultivar has flower clusters that radiate out in all directions and resemble streaming yellow fireworks.
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Plant GuideStonecrop
Sedum ‘Ruby Glow’In summer to late summer, this low-growing Sedum has rosy-red flowers atop small, fleshy blue-green leaves with ruddy highlights.
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