Rock Garden - Page 24 of 34 - Fine Gardening

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    ‘Terracotta’ yarrow

    Achillea millefolium 'Terracotta'

    Flat-topped corymbs of small, daisy-like flowers in colors of salmon-peach to yellow-orange are borne simultaneously on one plant up to 2 feet tall and wide.

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    Veronica peduncularis ‘Georgia Blue’

    Veronica peduncularis 'Georgia Blue'

    'Georgia Blue' forms beautiful mats of purple-tinged leaves.

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    ‘Bright Gem’ Tulip

    Tulipa batalinii 'Bright Gem'

    This named variety of the species has soft sulfur-yellow flowers up to 3 inches across.

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    Sargent’s weeping hemlock

    Tsuga canadensis 'Pendula'

    This hemlock cultivar makes a very beautiful specimen, slowly forming a 10- to 15-foot-tall and 30-foot-wide, multi-layered mound of greenery.

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    English wild thyme

    Thymus praecox subsp. britannicus

    This thyme grows to 6 inches tall, with fuzzy stems and tiny, rounded, fuzzy blue-green leaves.

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    Dahlberg daisy

    Thymophylla tenuiloba

    This fragrant annual is covered with delicate, daisy-like yellow blossoms in July and August.

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    Wall germander

    Teucrium chamaedrys

    This evergreen or deciduous subshrub is grown for its attractive, dark green aromatic foliage and its light pink to deep purple flowers, which blossom in summer and early fall.

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    Blue-eyed grass

    Sisyrinchium graminoides

    This clump forming, semi-evergreen, grass-like perennial blooms in summer, with a long succession of yellow-centered blue flowers.

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    Golden Alexander

    Zizia aurea

    This lovely native of the eastern U.

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    Mexican feather grass

    Nassella tenuissima

    No other grass exhibits quite the refinement of texture as this species.