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Plant GuideDevil’s walking stick
Aralia spinosaThe textural quality of this eastern native's stems and foliage is superb.
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Plant GuideMexican petunia
Ruellia brittoniana ‘Purple Showers’This 3-foot-tall evergreen shrub bears many tubular, blue or purple, petunia-like flowers on dark stems over a long period.
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Plant GuideArrowwood viburnum
Viburnum dentatumThis woody, multi-stemmed, deciduous shrub has a rounded shape and grows 5 to 9 feet tall and wide.
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Plant Guide
Colorado blue spruce
Picea pungens ‘Procumbens’'Procumbens' is similar to 'Pendula' in color but prostrate in habit, with cascading branches sometimes staying stiffly horizontal.
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Plant Guide‘Sixteen Candles’ sweet pepperbush
Clethra alnifolia ‘Sixteen Candles’‘Sixteen Candles’ sweet pepperbush is a newer cultivar of a popular native shrub.
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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 GuideRough gayfeather
Liatris asperaThis tuberous perennial has dense clusters of linear, rough leaves borne in basal tufts to 16 inches long.
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Plant Guide
Rocky Mountain penstemon
Penstemon strictus 'Bandera'Rocky Mountain penstemon is an upright perennial that forms a mat of glossy green leaves from which arise straight, 2-foot-tall stems bearing rich purple blooms.
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Plant GuideSwamp sunflower
Helianthus angustifolius
A profusion of golden yellow flowers appears for two to three weeks starting in early autumn.
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Plant GuideBottlebrush buckeye
Aesculus parviflora
Large palmate-leaved shrub with showy white 12-inch-tall blooms in summer, followed by smooth-skinned fruit.
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