Rock Garden - Page 25 of 34 - Fine Gardening
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Plant Guide
Wrinkleleaf goldenrod
Solidago rugosaThis species has open, tree-shaped flower clusters that radiate out like a fountain.
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Plant GuideAutumn moor grass
Sesleria autumnalisThis cool-season grass begins the season with bright green blades.
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Plant GuideRocky stonecrop
Sedum rupestreThis is a vigorous, mat-forming evergreen species with small gray-green leaves and terminal clusters of star-shaped, vibrant yellow flowers in summer.
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Plant Guide
‘Blue Hill’ meadow sage
Salvia × sylvestris 'Blue Hill'This drought-tolerant perennial bears abundant pure blue flower spikes in early summer and until fall if spent flowers are removed promptly.
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Plant GuideGermander sage
Salvia chamaedryoidesThis choice species boasts narrow, downy sage-green leaves and true sky-blue blossoms from summer to fall.
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Plant GuideHellebore
Helleborus × hybridus cvs.From late fall through winter, the leathery leaves of hellebores stay glossy, cheery, and green.
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Plant Guide
‘Dorothy Wyckoff’ andromeda
Pieris japonica ‘Dorothy Wyckoff’This compact, rounded shrub produces reddish-purple buds that first open as soft pink then mature to white.
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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 GuideCreeping phlox
Phlox stoloniferaA dense, vigorous, mat-forming ground cover, creeping phlox has short flower stems from 3 to 12 inches tall.
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Plant GuideSaffron crocus
Crocus sativus
The saffron crocus blooms in the autumn, producing 1 to 5 rich lilac flowers with dark purple veins, held wide open above inconspicuous foliage.
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