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Plant Profiles: How To Grow

Plant Profile: ‘Pink Chablis’ Spotted Deadnettle (Lamium maculatum ‘Pink Chablis”)

Karen July 18, 2012 0 Comments

‘Pink Chablis’ spotted deadnettle makes a pleasant ground cover for a shady spot with its white variegated leaves and pink flowers. Its long blooming season from late spring to mid-summer…

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Plant Profile: Volcano Phlox ‘Ruby’ (Phlox paniculata)

Karen July 11, 2012 0 Comments

Garden phlox is a staple of many perennial gardens and this one is a great cultivar to grow. Like most phlox in the Volcano series it is shorter, denser, bears…

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Plant Profile: ‘Snowflake’Catmint (Nepeta mussinii)

Karen July 4, 2012 0 Comments

‘Snowflake’ is the white form of the traditional catmint that makes a great edging plant as it spills over the garden bed. Small white flowers are held in loose spikes…

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Plant Profile: Fremont’s Leather Flower (Clematis fremontii)

Karen June 4, 2012 0 Comments

This small non-climbing shrubby clematis has a long season of interesting beginning with attractive green leathery foliage in spring. In late spring nodding bell-shaped purple to white flowers appear singly…

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Plant Profile: Cowslip (Primula veris)

Karen May 30, 2012 0 Comments

Native to temperate Europe and western Asia, this evergreen or semi evergreen herbaceous perennial is a member of the primrose family, Primulaceae, that also includes scarlet pimpernel. Plants form a…

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Plant Profile: Nodding Wild Onion (Allium cernuum)

Karen May 21, 2012 0 Comments

There are many different kinds of onion cultivated as garden plants but the nodding wild onion has a special charm all of its own. In summer a cluster of white…

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Plant Profile: ‘Coconut Punch’ Dianthus

Karen May 16, 2012 0 Comments

Full, double, clove-scented, deep red and white flowers bloom on compact mounds of grey-green foliage in early summer and may continue sporadically until fall when another flush occurs. This cultivar…

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Plant Profile: Heartleaf Alexander (Zizia aptera)

Karen May 14, 2012 1 Comments

This short-lived perennial is a member of the carrot family, Apiaceae, that also includes parsley, celery, and poison hemlock. It is a native of moist to seasonable wet meadows and…

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Plant Profile: ‘Heaven Scent’ Jacob’s Ladder (Polemonium reptans x Polemonium yezoense)

Karen May 9, 2012 0 Comments

Jacob’s ladder is a favorite for woodland gardens because of its deer resistance, disease resistance, shade tolerance, and its lovely clusters of blue flowers in late spring. In addition, “Heaven…

Plant Profiles: How To Grow

Plant Profile: ‘Burning Hearts’ Bleeding Heart (Dicentra exima)

Karen May 2, 2012 0 Comments

Bleeding hearts are always welcome in a shade garden and this one is especially desirable. With its deep rose flowers trimmed with white and its soft blue-gray foliage it adds…

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