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The Salvia `Snow Hill', Salvia nemorosa `Schneehugel', has glowing purple stems loaded with masses of clear white flowers that bloom from June to October. With its dark green basal leaves and aromatic foliage, it makes an attractive accent all summer long. It has a plant height of 15" and a spread of 18-24" and stays in excellent compact form. It is hardy for container gardening and provides excellent cut flowers. Blooms look wonderful next to Sedum `Matrona', Veronica `Royal Candles' and Saliva `May Night'. |
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The Coreopsis `Sweet Dreams' is a wonderful new variety to the Coreopsis family. The dark green thread-like foliage makes a great contrast with its tipped white flower bleeding into a dark raspberry center, blooming from June through October. `Sweet Dreams' is extremely drought tolerant with a plant height of 18" and a spread of 18-24". With cool autumn weather, the flowers make an even more outstanding color scheme. Coreopsis `Sweet Dreams' looks great with any type of grass, in borders or mass plantings in sunny gardens. |
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The Grass 'Leather Leaf Sedge', Carex buchananii, is an upright grass and a native of New Zealand. This variety prefers moist, fast-draining, rocky soil. The finely textured copper foliage contrasts vividly with dark green, blue, and silver plants. Equally at home in containers and rock gardens. This evergreen perennials copper foliage is attractive on this fine textured grass. The clumps can grow up to 3' tall, with a spreading form and arching gracful & dainty foliage. |
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The Grass 'Little Bluestem', Schizachyrium scoparium, is a native American prairie grass. It is also know as "Sagegrass" or "Beard grass'. It can reach up to 3-4' and has a blueish hue to the leaves. The leaves turn a rich orangy wheat color in fall. Flowers are scattered along the upper parts of the stem branches, with long hairs creating a feathery appearance. There is a single, white,hairy flower cluster at the tip of each stalk. |
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The Grass 'Mexican Feather Grass' Stipa tenuissima', is a beautiful mounded ornamental grass. It's Needle-like flexible leaves form dense, bright green clumps. The flowers are silky awns that appear in June and change from green to gold as they mature.It has shown cold-hardiness and also is a trooper in the sweltering hot summer. This is an environmentally friendly grass with virtually no pests or diseases. Spectacular when backlit at night, they are striking alone, or in large masses or drifts. |
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The Grass 'New Zealand Hair Sedge', Carex comans Frosted Curls, is a tufted, fine textured, evergreen sedge with 1/16"-wide, hairlike, almost cylindrical leaves that form dense tufts. The slightest breeze causes the iridescent, light green foliage to shimmer and glow. When allowed to spill over rocky slopes or walls, this variety creates the illusion of falling water. Does best in moist, fast-draining soil. Plant this perennial in full to partial sun. |
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The Grass 'Northern Pampas Grass', Erianthus ravennae, grass is an outstanding plant. The tall flower stalks of this grass stand well above the foliage. The foliage grows in an arching, fountain-like way. The silvery white flower stalks are good for drying. Northern Pampas grass makes an excellent specimen plant. This amazing grass can grow in hard, rocky areas, flooded areas, dry and damp ground plus its normal habitat. The leaves die during frosts in northern climates, but grow back in the spring. |
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The Grass 'Northern Sea Oats', Chasmanthium latifolium, is upright and arching. It is treasured for its showy, dropping flowers and slender, bamboo-like foliage that changes from green, to copper, to rich brown.It self-sows freely; deadhead if you do not want volunteer seedlings next season. Magnificent for winter contrast, it flourishes in contianers or even in a shady, damp site -- including coastal areas. Pest and disease free. |
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The Coreopsis `Tequilla Sunrise' is a very exciting new variety. In the Tickseed family, the gorgeous variegated olive-green foliage, turning to mahogany in the fall, and cream to yellow flowers with a red eye, is a great addition to any garden. Blooming from June to October, it has a plant height of 12" and a spread of 10-12". It is very effective in naturalized areas, rock and cottage gardens or wild gardens. No garden should be without it. |
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The Coreopsis `Zagreb', Coreopsis verticillata, is a prolific bloomer of bright yellow flowers that bloom from June through October. Winner of the 2001 RHS Award of Garden Merit, Coreopsis `Zagreb' is a little shorter than the rest of the Coreopsis family. With a plant height of 15" and a spread of 12-18", its delicate dark green foliage has an airy and delicate appearance. It is very effective in naturalized areas, rock and cottage gardens or wild gardens. No garden should be without it. |
