Plant List
Achillea filipendulina
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Common Name: Cloth of Gold
Bloom Season: Summer to Early Fall
Bloom Color: Yellow
Ideal Sun Conditions: Full Sun Mature Height: 24"
Description:
Long blooming, covered with yellow flowers in summer. Garden Notes: Needs fairly constant moisture and good garden soil for best performance.
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Achillea millefollium
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Common Name: Yarrow " Cerise Queen"
Bloom Season: Summer to Early Fall
Bloom Color: Red
Ideal Sun Conditions: Full Sun Mature Height: 24"
Description:
Carefree generous blooms, cut flowers, only routine care, good for dry, hot situations, spreads by underground runners. Garden Notes: Needs fairly constant moisture and good garden soil for best performance.
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Aethionema schistosum
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Click on image below to see additional images  Common Name: Fragrant Persian Rockcress
Bloom Season: Spring
Bloom Color: Pink
Ideal Sun Conditions: Full Sun Mature Height: 10"
Mature Width: 15"
Description:
Evergreen, good winter foliage and spring bloom. Somewhat rough in summer, reseeds nicely Garden Notes: Provides among the first blooms of spring. Very showy for a short time, deadhead to get to evergreen leaves or leave for reseeding. Has attractive gray-green foliage.
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Agastache astromontana
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Click on image below to see additional images  Common Name: Pink Pop
Bloom Season: Summer
Bloom Color: Pink
Ideal Sun Conditions: Full Sun Mature Height: 24"
Mature Width: 18"
Description:
First year blooming, many small pink blooms on long flower soikes, not real showy, but nice. Dense, bushy, aromatic plants. |
Agastache aurantiaca 'Apricot Sprite'
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Click on image below to see additional images  Common Name: Apricot Sprite
Bloom Season: Summer
Bloom Color: Orange
Ideal Sun Conditions: Full Sun Mature Height: 14"
Mature Width: 18"
Description:
Compact form, bushy, branching plant. Aromatic silver-green foliage, durable. Prefers good drainage. Soft orange flowers all summer. Garden Notes: A great plant, nice summer blooms, unique color. Somewhat short lived for me, but worth planting every few years.
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Agastache aurantiaca 'Lilac Sprite'
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Common Name: Lilac Sprite
Bloom Season: Summer
Bloom Color: Lilac/Orange
Ideal Sun Conditions: Full Sun Mature Height: 18"
Mature Width: 24"
Description:
Bi-color lilac and pastel orange over a long summer bloom. Aromatic leaves. Pest free. |
Agastache aurantiaca 'Navajo Sunset'
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Click on image below to see additional images  Common Name: Navajo Sunset
Bloom Season: Summer
Bloom Color: Orange
Ideal Sun Conditions: Full Sun Mature Height: 28"
Mature Width: 30"
Description:
Aromatic, clear light orange- silvery leaved Southwest Native. Larger. Garden Notes: A good plant for a classic southwest xeriscape look. Nice summer blooms.
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Agastache cana 'Heather Queen'
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Common Name: Wild Hyssop 'Heather Queen'
Bloom Season: Summer
Bloom Color: Rose
Ideal Sun Conditions: Full Sun Part-Shade Mature Height: 36"
Mature Width: 18"
Description:
Heathery lilac blooms. |
Agastache cana 'Purple Pygmy'
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Click on image below to see additional images  Common Name: Purple Pygmy
Bloom Season: Summer
Bloom Color: Reddish Purple
Ideal Sun Conditions: Full Sun Part-Shade Mature Height: 16"
Mature Width: 18"
Description:
Densely branched plants.Flowers first summer. Easier for me to grow in gardens than the native type. Garden Notes: Have not seen a lot of difference from Agastache cana. Basically just a bit shorter
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Agastache rugosa 'Heronswood'
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Common Name: Korean Hummingbird Mint
Bloom Season: Summer to Fall
Bloom Color: Blue
Ideal Sun Conditions: Full Sun Part-Shade Mature Height: 50"
Mature Width: 20"
Description:
Forms strong clumps of semi-glossy foliage with a mint fragrance. Deep blue spikes of flowers. Tolerates wet winters. |
Agastache rupestris
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Click on image below to see additional images  Common Name: Apache Sunset
Bloom Season: Summer to Fall
Bloom Color: Orange
Ideal Sun Conditions: Full Sun Part-Shade Mature Height: 30"
Mature Width: 24"
Description:
Hummingbirds, Long blooming midsummer to fall, Lean, well-drained soil. Licorice scented. |
Agave parryi
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Common Name: Parry's Agave
Ideal Sun Conditions: Full Sun Mature Height: 15"
Mature Width: 24"
Description:
One of the hardiest species of Agave. Silver-gray rosettes, fiercely spined, produces offsets. |
Allium schoenoprasum
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Click on image below to see additional images  Common Name: Chives
Bloom Season: Spring
Bloom Color: Violet
Ideal Sun Conditions: Full Sun Mature Height: 12"
Mature Width: 8"
Description:
Common Chives- used for onion flavored seasoning- blooms are edible-use in salads. Attracts butterflies. |
Althea ficifolia
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Common Name: Antwerp Hollyhock
Bloom Season: Summer
Bloom Color: Mix
Ideal Sun Conditions: Full Sun Mature Height: 40"
Mature Width: 24"
Description:
Mix of colors not usually found in single Althea rosea var.-. Coppery orange, Gold, Bright Rose, Etc. Rust tolerant to degree not found in other hollyhocks. |
Althea rosea 'Queeny Purple'
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Common Name: Hollyhock 'Queeny Purple'
Bloom Season: Summer
Bloom Color: Purple
Ideal Sun Conditions: Full Sun Mature Height: 20"
Description:
All-American Selections Winner. Compact base branched habit. Blooms first year. 4" frilly blooms with powder puff center. |
Althea rosea 'Texas Pink'
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Click on image below to see additional images  Common Name: Texas Pink
Bloom Season: Summer
Bloom Color: Pink
Ideal Sun Conditions: Full Sun Mature Height: 60"
Mature Width: 24"
Description:
Nice large plant with bright pink blooms. Garden Notes: Showy when in bloom early summer. Then begins to look ragged. Plant at rear of bed for other plants to hide or it can be cut back after bloom.
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Alyssum montanum 'Luna'
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Common Name: Luna
Bloom Season: Summer-All
Bloom Color: Yellow
Ideal Sun Conditions: Full Sun Mature Height: 6"
Mature Width: 12"
Description:
Early flowering, compact habit. Blooms earlier than Mountain Gold. Intense yellow on deep green foliage. |
Alyssum montanum 'Mountain Gold'
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Common Name: Mountain Gold
Bloom Season: Summer
Bloom Color: Yellow
Ideal Sun Conditions: Full Sun Mature Height: 10"
Mature Width: 12"
Description:
Groundcover. Fragrant yellow blooms. Sheer after blooming to enjoy lacy evergreen foliage. |
Amorpha canescens
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Common Name: Lead Plant
Bloom Season: Summer
Bloom Color: Indigo
Ideal Sun Conditions: Full Sun Mature Height: 36"
Mature Width: 48"
Description:
Small,soft gray leaves. Spikes of indigo flowers with yellow stamens early summer, slow seed spread, 20 " water min |
Amorpha fruiticosa
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Click on image below to see additional images  Common Name: Indigo Bush
Bloom Season: Late Spring
Bloom Color: Purple
Ideal Sun Conditions: Full Sun Mature Height: 72"
Mature Width: 60"
Description:
Deciduous 6-8 ft shrub. Purple flowers, -Butterflies. Native to PH- sandy soils along streams, reported to have rapid seed spread. I have had it for six years and have not had a volunteer on my clay soil. |
Amorpha nana
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Common Name: Dwarf False Indigo
Bloom Season: Mid-summer
Bloom Color: Blue-violet
Ideal Sun Conditions: Full Sun Mature Height: 20"
Mature Width: 30"
Description:
Small shrublets with olive-green leaves. Bear blue-violet spikes mid summer. |
Anacyclus depressus
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Click on image below to see additional images  Common Name: Mat Daisy- Garden Gnome
Bloom Season: Early Spring
Bloom Color: White
Ideal Sun Conditions: Full Sun Mature Height: 3"
Mature Width: 15"
Description:
Forms dense spreading mat. Daisy-like flowers in early spring, reseeds nicely, looks great winter, early spring. Garden Notes: Use as biennial? Nice bloom in spring,can get ragged in summer. Good for dry, hot situations, prefers good drainage especially in winter.
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Andropogon gerard
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Common Name: Big Bluestem
Ideal Sun Conditions: Full Sun Mature Height: 3"-6"
Mature Width: 24"
Description:
One of the major grasses of the True Tallgrass Prairies. Drought tolerant but prefers extra moisture. Clump former, does not spread. Aggressive in the long run in pastures? Garden Notes: Coarse grass, best in native setting, cut dried stems to base early spring. Divide clump when center begins dieing out.
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Anethum graveolens
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Common Name: Dill 'Bouquet'
Bloom Season: Yellow
Bloom Color: Yellow
Ideal Sun Conditions: Full Sun Mature Height: 30"
Mature Width: 12"
Description:
Caterpillar food. Reseeds readily. Sow or plant several times in spring and summer for constant supply |
Anethum graveolens
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Common Name: Dill 'Dukat'
Bloom Season: Summer
Bloom Color: Yellow
Ideal Sun Conditions: Full Sun Mature Height: 48"
Mature Width: 12"
Description:
caterpillar food. Strong, Pungeant foliage, with high oil content- Better for butterflies? |