Woodland Garden - Page 4 of 47 - Fine Gardening

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    Sedges

    These grasslike perennials act as dazzling stars or demure suporters in sun and shade

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    Plant Guide

    Bleeding heart

    Dicentra spectabilis

    A garden favorite for many years, bleeding heart has soft green foliage and 1-inch-long rose pink and white heart-shaped flowers for several weeks in spring.

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    Broad-leaf sedge

    Carex siderosticha 'Variegata'

    This sedge's pearly, straplike leaves resemble striped ribbon waiting to be wrapped around a package.

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    Astilboides tabularis

    Astilboides tabularis

    This unique species bears large, rounded leaves that resemble lily pads and seem to defy gravity.

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    ‘Double Queen’ Lenten rose

    Helleborus odorus ‘Double Queen’

    Hellebores begin blooming in mid-winter in a range of colors, adding much needed color very early in the season.

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    Russian comfrey

    Symphytum  × uplandicum ‘Axminster Gold’

    This notably beautiful plant produces huge, elongated banana-shaped leaves, which are arfully edged in luminescent yellow.

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    Japanese spurge

    Pachysandra terminalis

    This plant has leathery, evergreen dark green foliage with slightly indented margins.

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    ‘Sekkan-sugi’ Japanese cedar

    Cryptomeria japonica ‘Sekkan-sugi’

    This conical evergreen offers year-round interest and a graceful shape, with branches that are more pendent than the species.

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    Plant Guide

    ‘Escargot’ begonia

    Begonia ‘Escargot’

    'Escargot' takes its name from the snail-like curl pattern at the base of the leaf.

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    Jack-in-the-pulpit

    Arisaema triphyllum

    A favorite of children, Jack-in-the-pulpit is a tuberous perennial producing one or two leaves, each divided into three narrow leaflets.