Dried Flower - Page 11 of 12 - Fine Gardening

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    Common sage

    Salvia officinalis

    Cooks and gardeners alike are indebted to this classic, evergreen perennial for the unique, pungent flavor and aroma that its gray-green leaves produce.

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    Plume grass

    Saccharum arundinaceum

    In late summer, this large, clump-forming species bears huge plumes of delicate pink flower clusters, which eventually fade to silver.

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    Purple fountain grass

    Pennisetum x advena 'Rubrum'

    This tropical annual produces mounds of narrow burgundy-red foliage and purple plumes to 1 foot long.

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    Fountain grass

    Pennisetum alopecuroides

    This species produces 2- to 5-foot-tall mounds of narrow green foliage and bottle brush-like silvery-pink to purple flowers, both of which mature to shades of brown.

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    Lindheimer’s muhly

    Muhlenbergia lindheimeri

    This beautiful warm-season grass produces attractive, pale purplish-gray plumes in autumn and goes dormant in the cold season.

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    Sea lavender

    Limonium latifolium

    Sea lavender is a rosette-forming perennial with mid- to dark-green leaves to 12 inches long, occasionally to 24 inches.

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    ‘Tardiva’ panicle hydrangea

    Hydrangea paniculata ‘Tardiva’

    'Tardiva' is a late-flowering (early to late autumn) cultivar with loosely packed, sharply pointed white flower heads that turn purplish pink with age.

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    Peegee hydrangea

    Hydrangea paniculata ‘Grandiflora’

    Large, sometimes giant white flower heads reaching 6 to 18 inches long turn pinkish with age.

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    Panicle hydrangea

    Hydrangea paniculata

    This plant produces gracefully arching branches and pyramidal clusters of white, then pink-tinged to dusky purple blossoms.

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    Hills-of-snow hydrangea

    Hydrangea arborescens ‘Grandiflora'

    Hydrangea arborescens is a southeastern U.