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Teucrium aroanium
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Click on image below to see additional images  Common Name: Gray Creeping Germander
Bloom Season: Summer to Fall
Bloom Color: Lilac
Ideal Sun Conditions: Full Sun Mature Height: 6"
Mature Width: 15"
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Scabiosa columbaria
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Click on image below to see additional images  Common Name: Pincushion 'nana'
Bloom Season: Midsummer to frost
Bloom Color: Blue
Ideal Sun Conditions: Full Sun Mature Height: 10"
Description:
Nice compact plant, blooms nicely, good for feeding butterflies. Can deadhead occasionally to prolong bloom. Very hardy, dependable. |
Scabiosa caucasica
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Click on image below to see additional images  Common Name: Pincushion 'perfecta clear blue'
Bloom Season: Midsummer to frost
Bloom Color: Blue
Ideal Sun Conditions: Full Sun Mature Height: 24"
Mature Width: 18"
Description:
Clear blue flowers, Hardy perennial for border or cut flower, deadheading ensures longer blooming. Classic blooms for butterflies. |
Lychnis chalcedonica
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Common Name: Burning Love
Bloom Season: Summer
Bloom Color: Red
Ideal Sun Conditions: Full Sun Mature Height: 30"
Mature Width: 24"
Description:
Said to be a humming bird magnet. Google pictures and see why! New to me, but is listed as an old fashioned plant. Garden Notes: All reviews I have seen have been positive. May need more water than I like to give my plants.
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Centranthus ruber coccineus
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Click on image below to see additional images  Common Name: Red Jupiter's Beard
Bloom Season: All Summer
Bloom Color: Red
Ideal Sun Conditions: Full Sun Part-Shade Mature Height: 24"
Mature Width: 36"
Description:
Adaptable plant with showy red flowers. Reseeds, but easy to remove when young. Long bloom season. Garden Notes: Nice deep green leaves. It does very well in full sun to part shade.
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Centranthus ruber alba
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Click on image below to see additional images  Common Name: White Jupiter's Beard
Bloom Season: All Summer
Bloom Color: White
Ideal Sun Conditions: Full Sun Part-Shade Mature Height: 24"
Mature Width: 36"
Description:
Adaptable plant with showy white flowers. Reseeds, but easy to remove when young. Long bloom season. |
Buddleia daviddii 'ALBA'
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Click on image below to see additional images  Common Name: White Butterfly Bush
Bloom Season: Summer
Bloom Color: White
Ideal Sun Conditions: Full Sun Mature Height: 72"
Mature Width: 60"
Description:
Graceful shrub with fragrant white flowers. |
Buddleia daviddii
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Click on image below to see additional images  Common Name: Butterfly Bush
Bloom Season: Summer to Fall
Bloom Color: Violet
Ideal Sun Conditions: Full Sun Part-Shade Mature Height: 60"
Mature Width: 48"
Description:
Excellent shrub, prune to 12" in spring. Fast growth to 6-8ft. Fragrant,lilac-like blooms summer to frost without deadheading. Garden Notes: This variety is seed grown- collected from plants that have been growing locally. It is the fastest growing, most robust variety I have. It does very well with minimal water once established. Water deeply when watering. Great for a variety of butterflies.
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Baptisia australis
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Common Name: Blue False Indigo
Bloom Season: Spring, Summer
Bloom Color: Blue
Ideal Sun Conditions: Full Sun Mature Height: 48"
Mature Width: 36"
Description:
poor sandy soil- flowers & seed pods are good in arrangements,clumps gradually increase but resent transplanting, Native to Eastern panhandle and Eastward. |
Aster tongolensis
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Common Name: Wartburg Star
Bloom Season: Summer
Bloom Color: Blue
Ideal Sun Conditions: Full Sun Part-Shade Mature Height: 24"
Mature Width: 18"
Description:
Dark green leaves. Lavender blue blooms with orange center in spring. TRIAL 2010 |