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Plant GuideGold hosta
Hosta ‘Fort Knox’This upright selection reaches 24 inches tall and 44 to 48 inches wide.
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Plant GuideHosta ‘August Moon’
Hosta ‘August Moon’This large and vigorous mounding hosta reaches 20 to 24 inches tall and 36 to 42 inches wide.
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Plant GuideLeatherleaf viburnum
Viburnum rhytidophyllumThis vigorous, coarsely textured evergreen shrub has an upright habit and 8-inch-long, lustrous, deeply veined oval leaves with dark blue-green surfaces and pale green undersides.
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Plant GuideSiberian Culver’s root
Veronicastrum sibiricumThis species has multiple 5- to 7-foot-tall, tapering spikes of pinkish-lavender flowers from summer to fall.
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Plant GuideAmerican barrenwort
Vancouveria hexandraThis attractive, easy-care, 6- to 8-inch semi-evergreen groundcover boasts leaves that emerge bright green, then darken with age, creating a two-toned effect.
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Plant Guide‘Mint Chocolate’ Foam flower
Tiarella 'Mint Chocolate'This clump-forming variety has unusually long, maple-shaped leaves with a chocolate-colored overlay.
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Plant GuideJapanese rock hosta
Hosta kikutii 'Hillbilly Blues'
A clump-forming perennial with flat-spreading, blue-colored leaves, Japanese rock hosta bears funnel-shaped white flowers, sometimes flushed with purple, on arching, leafy scapes 24 inches long.
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Plant GuideNoble bamboo
Himalayacalamus falconeri ‘Damarapa’This perennial bamboo has dense clumps of smooth, olive-green, hollow, glossy culms, stained purple at the nodes, and linear, blue-green leaves to 6 inches long.
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Plant GuideSeven-son flower
Heptacodium miconioides
The tiered branches of this fast-growing species are covered with white blossoms for over a month, starting in late summer.
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Plant Guide
Creeping dogwood
Cornus canadensisA spreading subshrub, Cornus canadensis has whorls of leathery mid-green leaves that turn purple in the winter.
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