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    Chilean Prickly Rhubarb

    Gunnera tinctoria

    Enormous, puckered leaves of this tropical, prehistoric plant emerge in spring, reaching six feet across or more, creating a dramatic waterside or greenhouse specimen. In late spring, a robust stalk…

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    Blue Cascade® Evergreen Distylium

    Distylium 'PIIDIST-II'

    An exciting new evergreen featuring matte blue-green foliage with a cascading, layered habit. Its reddish-maroon flowers in late January through March add interest during the winter months. With its heat…

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    Blue Suede® Southern Highbush Blueberry

    Vaccinium corymbosum 'TH-682' 

    The perfect addition to your home garden or container.  White flowers bloom in spring.  Luscious large fruit ripen in early summer and beautiful fall foliage highlights the fall and winter…

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    Golden Duchess™ Eastern Hemlock

    Tsuga canadensis 'MonKinn'

    Like a jewel in the landscape, this superb new dwarf conifer nearly glows with golden-yellow foliage on graceful, arching branches. Its low, mounding form and improved sun tolerance over other…

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    Design

    Solutions for Wet, Shady Sites

    Turn obstacles into advantages in damp garden areas

  • How-To

    The Four Things You Need to Know About Soil pH

    Lee Reich explains what pH is, what it does, how to adjust it, and why to monitor it

  • Plant Guide

    ‘Slender Silhouette’ sweet gum

    Liquidambar styraciflua ‘Slender Silhouette’

    This is a compact, columnar tree with an impressive mature height and a width of only 3 to 6 feet, so it takes up little precious space.

  • Plant Guide

    Emperor I® Japanese maple

    Acer palmatum ‘Wolff’

    I’ll never forget when, in the mid-1990s, I called up a renowned nurseryman in Pennsylvania with questions about a holly, and he shifted the conversation to a new Japanese maple…