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Great Plant Pick: Stachyurus praecox aka stachyurus
This elegant shrub has arching stems that display pendulums of creamy-yellow bell-shaped blossoms.
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Great Plant Pick: Pulmonaria ‘Benediction,’ aka lungwort
Plant this mounding perennial — featuring navy-blue flowers — with foilage plants like ferns and hostas.
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Great Plant Pick: Pink dawn viburnum
What: Viburnum x bodnantense “Dawn,” commonly known as pink dawn viburnum, is most noted for its floral displays…
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Great Plant Pick: Sarcococca hookeriana var. humilis, dwarf sweetbox
This variation of sweetbox has white flowers in early spring and blue-black berries in summer.
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Great Plant Pick: Sequoiadendron giganteum ‘Pendulum’
No matter where you plant it, weeping giant sequoia is a tree that won’t go unnoticed.
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Great Plant Pick: Erica carnea ‘Vivellii,’ winter heath
This evergreen spreading shrub will provide you with a profusion of pink flowers in the winter.
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Great Plant Pick: Hamamelis x intermedia ‘Pallida,’ witch hazel
The pale-yellow flowers of “Padilla” witch hazel are bright additions to the winter landscape.
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Great Plant Pick: Sedum spurium ‘Tricolor,’ variegated two-row stonecrop
The sedum is a fine selection as a weed-smothering groundcover or for spotting into rock walls.
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Great Plant Pick: Cupressus nootkatensis ‘Pendula,’ weeping Alaskan yellow cedar
What: One of the most eye-catching and beautiful of the weeping conifers, weeping Alaskan yellow cedar makes a…
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Great Plant Pick: Cotoneaster dammeri, bearberry cotoneaster
This mounding shurb grows masses of tiny spring flowers, followed by red berries in autumn.
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Great Plant Pick: Osmanthus heterophyllus ‘Goshiki’
This variegated false holly boasts five colors on its leaves — cream, pink, orange, yellow and white.
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Great Plant Pick: Viburnum davidii aka David’s viburnum
This spreading shurb is a year-round evergreen with white flowers in spring and berries in autumn.
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Great Plant Pick: Blechnum penna-marina, alpine water fern
The evergreen fern’s new fronds emerge in the spring copper red and gradually fade to rich green.
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Great Plant Pick: x Fatshedera lizei, fatshedera
This “botanical wonder” is a rare hybrid between Fatsia japonica and Hedera helix (English ivy).
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Great Plant Pick: Pinus parviflora, blue-needled Japanese white pine
Glauca Group represents blue-needled selections of the Japanese white pine. Each blue needle has a white stripe.
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Great Plant Pick: Stipa gigantea, giant feather or needle grass
Plant the grass next to the lawn so that a viewer may appreciate its dangling seeds on close…
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Great Plant Pick: Rhodiola pachyclados, Afghani sedum
What: Rhodiola pachyclados, also known as Afghani sedum, is an excellent groundcover plant — particularly for hot, dry…
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Great Plant Pick: Sciadopitys verticillata, Japanese umbrella pine
Despite its common name, this pyramidal conifer is not a true pine. Meaning, it’s not of genus Pinus.
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Great Plant Pick: Quercus rubra, red oak or Northern red oak
This tree has a beautiful structure that is impressive year-round. In fall, the leaves turn a rich red.
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Great Plant Pick: Molinia caerulea ssp. caerulea ‘Variegata’
This variegated purple moor grass works well in mass plantings or as a specimen in your garden.