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Acer truncatum (Shantung maple, Purpleblow maple)
Fine Gardening — Two experts pick their favorites based on color, shape by Francie Schroeder Acer shirasawanum 'Aureum' Compact and rounded, the Shantung maple reaches a mature height and spread of 25 feet by 30 feet. The leaves grow to 5 inches long and have ...More…
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Acer triflorum (Three-flower maple)
Fine Gardening — This broadly columnar to spreading tree has peeling brown bark, three-palmate mid-green leaves, and brilliant orange-red fall foliage. It grows up to 30 feet tall and 25 feet wide. Small white flowers appear in profusion on leafless branches in ...More…
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Acer shirasawanum 'Aureum' (Golden Full Moon Maple)
Fine Gardening — The striking lime-to-chartreuse-tinged golden leaves of this small, rounded tree make it the star of any shade garden. In fall, its golden leaves turn as orange and red as those of our native sugar maple. Like many small maples from Japan, this ...More…
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Acer truncatum
Fine Gardening — Acer saccharum 'Caddo' Compact and rounded, the Shantung maple reaches a mature height and spread of 25 feet by 30 feet. The leaves grow to 5 inches long and have five to seven lobes, resembling the leaves of the Sweetgum ( ). Leaves emerge ...More…
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Acer rubrum (Red maple, Scarlet maple, Swamp maple)
Fine Gardening — This cultivar creates a fragrant cloud of rich bubblegum-pink blossoms on bare branches in spring. It grows to 40 feet tall and wide. Magnolia ashei Taxodium distichum and cvs.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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Acer japonicum
Fine Gardening — Full-moon maple has deeply lobed leaves, crimson autumn color, and plenty of small, reddish flowers in spring. It can be grown as a small tree or multi-stemmed shrub. Its growth habit is mounded, bushy, and spreading. The cultivar name ...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…
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Choisya ternata
Fine Gardening — 'Worcester Gold' is an attractive, mounding, woody shrub with warm yellow to chartreuse foliage and lavender-blue flowers in late summer and early autumn. The flowers are fragrant and attractive to bees and butterflies. The foliage is also ...More…
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Acalypha wilkesiana (Copperleaf, Jacob's coat)
Fine Gardening — Foot-long, rich pink blossoms are nocturnally fragrant and pour out from narrow calyces to terminate in wide, flared openings. Few plants evoke tropicalia quite like the , with their voluminous tubular flowers that drip from imposing shrubs or ...More…
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Acaena inermis
Fine Gardening — This subshrub from New Zealand has scalloped leaves that reach 3 inches across with 11 to 15 tiny, purple-brown to pale olive leaflets. Its rhizomatous roots spread in a mat to support this plant's wonderful ground-cover form. In early summer, ...More…
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Achillea 'Moonshine' (Yarrow)
Fine Gardening — This popular gray-leaved yarrow has 18-inch-tall yellow flower heads that last for several weeks in late summer. Solidago caesia Solidago rugosaMore…