Meadow Garden - Page 3 of 23 - Fine Gardening
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Plant GuideCulver’s root
Veronicastrum virginicum
This species has multiple tapering, soft spikes of white to pale pink or bluish purple flowers that look like elegant, living candelabras.
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Plant GuideColumbine meadow rue
Thalictrum aquilegiifolium
The lacy leaves of this meadow rue look like a columbine's, hence the common and scientific names.
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Plant Guide
Spring beauty
Claytonia virginicaThis low-growing, spring-blooming succulent touts 5-petaled, pale-pink striped flowers with strap-like foliage that continues to grow after bloom but disappears in late spring when the plants go into dormancy.
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Plant GuideBachelor’s buttons
Centaurea cyanus
Bachelor's buttons bear charming and prolific flowers in hues of blue, pink, lavender, white, and maroon.
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Plant GuideBoltonia asteroides
Boltonia asteroidesBoltonias are vigorous perennials grown for their sprays of aster-like flowers, which appear above clean, gray-green foliage.
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Plant Guide
‘Chocolate Chip’ baptisia
Baptisia 'Chocolate Chip'This perennial produces milk chocolate-colored flowering buds that open in spring with golden yellow petals over blue-green foliage.
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Plant GuideTickseed sunflower
Bidens aristosaThis fast-growing annual of the Midwestern wet meadows grows to 4 or 5 feet tall.
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Plant GuideRavenswing
Anthriscus sylvestris 'Ravenswing'This is the bronze-purple form of the common Queen Anne's lace.
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Plant GuideTatarian aster
Aster tataricusTatarian aster is an impressive, stately perennial with a flowering height of 3 to 6 feet.
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Plant GuideArkansas bluestar
Amsonia hubrichtiiArkansas bluestar's delicate, willow-like foliage is topped with pale blue star-shaped flowers in spring.
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