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Geum 'Mango Lassi' ('Mango Lassi' geum)
Fine Gardening — This evergreen perenial grows to 4 to 16 inches tall and 12 to 24 inches wide and blooms from late spring to fall (with deadheading) with double flowers in shades of apricot and buttery yellow. Sow seed oe divide in spring or fall. Downy and ...More…
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Bradford pear
Fine Gardening — Nancy and John Matthews extensively researched plants that would succeed in this moist, full-sun, deer-ridden site and still provide color and interest all year round in their North Barrington, Illinois, garden. They consider this especially ...More…
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Iris 'Rip City' (Tall bearded iris)
Fine Gardening — Wash your hands after working with the plant as its tissue can cause severe irritation if ingested. Division, offsets Often used by florists, 'Star Gazer' lily has bright crimson flowers with purple spots and dark edges. These lilies grow to ...More…
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Tropaeolum majus 'Vesuvius' (Indian cress, Nasturtium)
Fine Gardening — This old-fashioned cultivar has a mounded habit and grows to 12 inches tall and about as wide. In summer and fall, it bears blossoms of tangerine to deep salmon. Both the rounded leaves and spurred flowers are edible. This old-fashioned cultivar ...More…
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S. persica
Fine Gardening — This strongly fragrant cultivar bears single light purple flowers in mid- to late season, and it exhibits maroon autumn foliage. It forms a compact shrub 8 feet high by 8 feet wide. This hardy, late-flowering hybrid bears perfumed rose-pink buds ...More…
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Juniperus sabina 'Blue Forest' (Savin juniper)
Fine Gardening — This spreading, low-growing shrub has attractive bluish-green foliage and unusual upturned branches that create the appearance of a miniature blue forest. The mature size is 10 inches tall, with a spread that can reach 4 feet wide. Many gardeners ...More…
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Actaea rubra (Red baneberry, Snakeberry)
Fine Gardening — Actaea rubra bears white flowers from spring to early summer on plants up to 2 feet tall and 1 foot wide. In late summer, glossy red berries develop. A few cultivars exist. This woodland perennial is native to the U.S. Wide and distinct ...More…
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Actaea racemosa (Black cohosh, Black snakeroot, Bugbane)
Fine Gardening — Actaea racemosa is a native woodland perennial with white, somewhat fuzzy flowers in midsummer that wave above astilbe-like, deeply cut foliage. The flowers can be unpleasantly scented, thus the name "bugbane." Formerly in the genus Cimicifuga, ...More…
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Actaea pachypoda (White baneberry, White cohosh)
Fine Gardening — Electric yellow bracts bloom on a low cushion in April and persist, but gently fade as the stems elongate to form a 16-inch mound by midsummer. The leaves produce shades of red, orange, and purple in autumn. This 3-foot-tall and 2-foot-wide ...More…
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Broussonetia papyrifera
Fine Gardening — This round, mound-forming, deciduous Japanese maple has many qualities that make it an excellent garden plant, including a sculptural form, deeply cut foliage, arching shoots, and golden autumn color. The reddish purple flowers are tiny but ...More…
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Acanthus mollis (Bear's breeches)
Fine Gardening — Acanthus mollis is prized for its bold clumps of shiny green leaves topped with striking, 3-foot-tall spires of white flowers which are clasped by showy purple bracts. This is a great plant for an eye-catching structural element in a part-shade ...More…