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Achillea Moonshine (Yarrow)
Prices start at : 14.95 USD / 1 Gal

An excellent choice for a sunny, hot dry site, especially if it's windy. Achillea Moonshine does prefer drier soils so if there was ever a plant that we would recommend not adding topsoil or compost this is one.
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Salvia May Night
Prices start at : 17.95 USD / 1 Gal

Meaning to save or heal in reference to the purported medically curative properties attributed to some plants in the genus. If plants flop or otherwise depreciate in summer to the point where they look unsightly, consider cutting them back to the basal...
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Little Kitten Maiden Grass
Prices start at : 35.95 USD / #1 Container range: 2.3 - 3.7 quarts (2.5 - 4 liters)

Pink-tinted, silver/white flower spikes rise up above the mounded foliage in autumn and (to the delight of your feathered friends), will persist into the winter months. Plant a few of these for a lovely groundcover or naturalized look in your side yard.
  • Sun Exposure: Full Sun, Partial Sun
  • Mature Spread: 12 - 20 inches
  • Soil Type: Widely Adaptable
  • Growth Rate: Fast
  • Botanical Name: Miscanthus sinensis 'Little Kitten'
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Gaultheria procumbens Teaberry
Prices start at : 22.95 USD / 1 GAL

The most common cause of plant death after transplanting is planting the new plant to deep. If you crush the berries it may take you back to years gone by and the scent of Teaberry Gum.
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Improved Dragon\'s Blood Red Sedum
Prices start at : 3.99 USD / each

An excellent groundcover! Tolerant of dry infertile soils and is useful for covering difficult places and providing erosion control on banks. Bright red, star like flowers cover the Creeping Red Sedum plant from June through September.
  • Season Color: Summer
  • Deer Resistant: Yes
  • Spread: 12''
  • Colors: Red
  • Plant Lighting: Full Sun, Partial Sun/Shade
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Pink Chablis Lamium
Prices start at : 29.95 USD / Quart Container

* Silver and Green Foliage * Cotton Candy Pink Flowers in Spring * 12" Vigorous Groundcover Use lamium in hanging baskets, in mixed containers, trailing over walls or as an edger, but spread must be controlled.
  • Sun Exposure: Full Sun, Full Shade, Partial Sun
  • Mature Spread: 10 - 14 inches
  • Botanical Name: Lamium Pink Chablis
  • Mature Height: 8 - 12 inches
  • Foliage: Silver Green
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Echinacea purpurea Magnus
Prices start at : 16.95 USD / 1 Gal

Bio-tone Starter Plus is an all-natural plant food that is combined with a stronger concentration of Espoma's beneficial bacteria along with both endo and ecto mycorrhizae. – Never plant Echinacea purpurea magnus deeper than originally planted in the...
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Mixed Carnations
Prices start at : 4.49 USD / each

Bloom at intervals all summer - even on into fall! Hardy, healthy plants bloom in a rainbow of colors even during the hottest, driest summers. Blooms: summer to fall. Drought and deer resistant, attracts butterflies and hummingbirds, great cut flower,...
  • Spread: 12-20''
  • Zones: 3-9
  • Season Color: Summer
  • Genus: Dianthus
  • Deer Resistant: Yes
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Red Painted Daisy
Prices start at : 3.99 USD / each

Deer resistant. Doubly remarkable is that the Painted Red Daisy only affects harmful insects, not other plant or animal life! Try some. See for yourself. You'll wonder why no one told you about this before! Blooms: summer.
  • Spread: 18''
  • Deer Resistant: Yes
  • Genus: Tanacetum coccineum (Pyrethrum) 'Robinson's Red'
  • Season Color: Summer
  • Colors: Red
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Dianthus Baths Pink
Prices start at : 17.95 USD / 1 Gal.

This is an older variety which has stood up to the test of time and continues to be a superior garden-worthy plant. Consider shearing plants back after main flush of bloom in order to tidy the planting and to promote additional bloom in late summer or...
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Festival Star Baby\'s Breath
Prices start at : 29.95 USD / Quart Container

Gypsophila Festival Star, Gypsophila 'Festival Startm' (PP#14,818), provides continuous cut flowers all summer long! Clouds of small white flowers float above densely branched plants from May through October! Gypsophila 'Festival Star' is a hardy baby's...
  • Brand: Nature Hills Nursery
  • Foliage: Green
  • Soil Type: Widely adaptable
  • Sun Exposure: Full Sun, Partial Sun
  • Botanical Name: Gypsophila 'Festival Star'
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Hellebore Orientalis
Prices start at : 21.95 USD / 1 Gal

A slightly larger and much easier plant to grow than the similar, but earlier blooming, // > Cut back flowering stems after bloom to promote new foliage growth. Flower color is extremely variable, ranging from white to pink to light rose-purple, frequently...
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Bonfire Euphorbia
Prices start at : 29.95 USD / 5" Container

It grows best in well-drained, poor-to-moderately fertile soil. Unlike other Euphorbias that may turn red in the fall, 'Bonfire' displays its smoldering red foliage all summer long! Radiant chartreuse flower bracts provide a nice contrast in the spring;...
  • Flower Color: Yellow
  • Brand: Nature Hills Nursery
  • Botanical Name: Euphorbia polychroma 'Bonfire'
  • Mature Spread: 30 - 36 inches
  • Mature Height: 12 - 18 inches
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Giant Hardy Hibiscus
Prices start at : 3.99 USD / each

Easy to grow, needs little care. Full foliage shrub-like plants 4-8' tall. Blooms mid summer to frost with up to 50 flowers on a single plant. Strong, field-grown plants shipped. Huge, exotic flowers up to 8'' across.
  • Genus: Hibiscus moscheutos
  • Colors: Mixed, Pink, Red, White
  • Spread: 3-4'
  • Season Color: Summer
  • Zones: 5-10
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Dianthus Neon Star
Prices start at : 17.95 USD / 1 Gal.

Easily grown in average, medium moisture, well-drained soils in full sun. Flowers bloom from late spring to early summer with continued but somewhat sporadic additional bloom to fall.
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The Blues Little Bluestem Grass
Prices start at : 33.95 USD / #1 Container range: 2.3 - 3.7 quarts (2.5 - 4 liters)

Little Blues Bluestem grasses have delicate and inconspicuous inflorescence in late summer and become silvery when dried. It does well in a variety of soil types and is drought tolerant.
  • Growth Rate: Medium
  • Botanical Name: Schizachyrium scoparium 'The Blues'
  • Fall Color: Red, Burgundy / Purple
  • Flower Color: Tan
  • Soil Type: Well Drained
  • Mature Height: 2 - 3 feet
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Aster Divaricatus Woodland Aster
Prices start at : 14.95 USD / 1 Gal

We highly recommend that you mulch your Aster Divaricatus with either a ground hardwood mulch or a ground cypress mulch depending on your local availability. A general rule of thumb is to count to 5 for every one gallon of pot size.
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Geranium maculatum
Prices start at : 19.95 USD / 1 GAL

Foliage may decline after flowering in hot summer climates, at which point it may be lightly sheared back and shaped to revitalize. Features 1 1/4″ diameter, pink to lilac, saucer-shaped, upward facing, 5-petaled flowers in spring for a period of 6-7...
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Stachys Big Ears (Stachys Helene Von Stein)
Prices start at : 17.95 USD / 1 GAL

Plant 12-18″ apart for use as ground cover. Stachys Big Ears is noted for its silver-green foliage which forms an attractive ground cover. Versatile and vigorous, with many possible uses, as edging, groundcover, and most especially in tubs or mixed...
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Daylily Stella D\'oro
Prices start at : 16.95 USD / 1 Gal

Adding compost or topsoil will help the young feeder roots to spread through the loose, nutrient rich soil, much easier than if you used solely the existing soil which more times than not will be hard and compacted.
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Karl Foerster Feather Reed Grass
Prices start at : 29.95 USD / #1 Container range: 2.3 - 3.7 quarts (2.5 - 4 liters)

The affect is stunning in any landscape! As the seed heads mature, they transition to shades of tan that persist through fall and can even provide delimitation into the winter months (as well as provide a tasty treat for your feathered friends).
  • Botanical Name: Calamagrostis x acutiflora 'Karl Foerster'
  • Foliage: Green
  • Brand: Nature Hills Nursery
  • Mature Height: 5 - 7 feet
  • Soil Type: Moist, Well Draining
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Geranium Karmina
Prices start at : 17.95 USD / 1 GAL

Uses: Extremely attractive when used as a focal point in the mixed border, mass planting as a groundcover. Aster divaricatus does prefer drier soils in the winter so if there was ever a plant that we would recommend not adding topsoil or compost this...
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Iris Caesars Brother
Prices start at : 17.95 USD / 1 GAL

In too much shade, plants tend to produce fewer flowers and foliage tends to flop. Arching, narrow, grass-like, linear, blue-green leaves form a vase-shaped foliage clump to 2' tall.
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Iris versicolor
Prices start at : 14.95 USD / 1 GAL

Falls (sepals) have a central yellow blotch surrounded by a white zone. Flowering stalks rise from the clump to 30” tall in late spring, with each stalk producing 3-5 bluish-purple flowers (to 4″ wide) with bold purple veining.
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Lilac, Scent and Sensibility Pink
Prices start at : 19.99 USD / 1 Plant

'Scent and Sensibility' is perfect for low growing border, the city garden, and mixed with perennial plants for attracting butterflies and hummingbirds. Lilac pink flowers bloom heavily in spring then rebloom in late summer to fall.
  • Spread: 48-60 inches
  • Ornamental Use: Borders, Cut Flowers
  • Zone: 3-7
  • Life Cycle: Perennial
  • Planting Time: Fall, Spring
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Ladys Mantle
Prices start at : 35.95 USD / #1 Container range: 2.3 - 3.7 quarts (2.5 - 4 liters)

It is best used for edging with Coral Bells, Geraniums or Hostas. The foliage catches and holds water drops while sparkling in the sun ‘Lady's Mantle' will grow well in sun or shade in rich, moist, well-drained areas.

Yellow

    • Fall Color: Yellow
    • Flower Color: Yellow
    • Botanical Name: Alchemilla mollis
    • Brand: Nature Hills Nursery
    • Mature Height: 18 - 24 inches
    • Foliage: Gray Green
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    Hellebore Royal Heritage
    Prices start at : 24.95 USD / 1 Gal

    Flowers bloom in a large variety of colors, including various shades and tints of white, pink, red, purple, and yellow, and sometimes have inside spotting. An introduction of Wayside Gardens of Hodges, South Carolina.
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