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Teucrium aroanium

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Common Name: Gray Creeping Germander
Bloom Season: Summer to Fall
Bloom Color: Lilac
Water Needs: Little Water Moderate Water

Ideal Sun Conditions: Full Sun

Mature Height: 6"
Mature Width: 15"

Salvia officinalis

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Common Name: Sage
Bloom Season: Summer
Bloom Color: Blue
Water Needs: Little Water Moderate Water

Ideal Sun Conditions: Full Sun

Mature Height: 30"
Mature Width: 30"
Description:

Herb used for seasoning. Violet blooms attract small butterflies. Attractive plant. Gray-green leaves.


Salvia jurisicii

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Common Name: European Cutleaf Sage
Bloom Season: Summer to Fall
Bloom Color: Blue
Water Needs: Little Water Moderate Water

Ideal Sun Conditions: Full Sun

Mature Height: 4"
Mature Width: 14"
Description:

Vigorous plants with ferny foliage. Upside down blue flowers.


Garden Notes: Plant out small.

Salvia farinacea

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Common Name: Victoria Blue
Bloom Season: Spring to Frost
Bloom Color: Blue
Water Needs: Little Water Moderate Water

Ideal Sun Conditions: Full Sun

Mature Height: 18"
Mature Width: 14"
Description:

Deep blue flowers, long bloom season When deadheaded. Cut to new growth early spring. Long lived.


Rudbeckia fulgida

Common Name: Goldstrum
Bloom Season: Summer
Bloom Color: Yellow
Water Needs: Little Water Moderate Water

Ideal Sun Conditions: Full Sun

Mature Height: 18"
Mature Width: 24"
Description:

Denver Botanical Gardens Plant Select 1999 Large, long blooming plant covered with yellow blooms in summer. Gets bigger and better each year.


Ratibida columnaris

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Common Name: Mexican Hat Yellow
Bloom Season: All Summer
Bloom Color: Yellow/Red
Water Needs: Little Water

Ideal Sun Conditions: Full Sun Part-Shade

Mature Height: 18"
Mature Width: 18"
Description:

Panhandle native, drought tolerant, naturalizes, long bloom season, a little extra water improves bloom.


Ratibida columnaris

Common Name: Mexican Hat Red
Bloom Season: All Summer
Bloom Color: Yellow/Red
Water Needs: Little Water

Ideal Sun Conditions: Full Sun Part-Shade

Mature Height: 18"
Mature Width: 18"
Description:

Panhandle native, drought tolerant, naturalizes, long bloom season, a little extra water improves bloom.


Oenothera macrocarpa missouriensis

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Common Name: Missouri Evening Primrose
Bloom Season: Summer
Bloom Color: Yellow
Water Needs: Little Water

Ideal Sun Conditions: Full Sun

Mature Height: 8"
Mature Width: 30"
Description:

Fragrant 4" wide blooms open late in the day. Drought tolerant once established. Likes extra water to bloom all summer.


Nepeta x'Walker's Low'

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Common Name: Catmint 'Walker's Low'
Bloom Season: Spring to Fall
Bloom Color: Lavender
Water Needs: Little Water

Ideal Sun Conditions: Full Sun Part-Shade

Mature Height: 30"
Mature Width: 36"
Description:

1997 PPA plant of the year.A sterile hybrid. Silver -gray green leaves form a spreading mound to 36" wide. Deer and rabbit resistant.


Garden Notes: Has a long bloom season on larger, neatly mounded plants. Plan on cutting back some to keep tidy in early spring. After a tough winter it may need to be cut back nearly to ground.

Nepeta x faasenii

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Common Name: Catmint 'Select Blue'
Bloom Season: Spring to Fall
Bloom Color: Lavender
Water Needs: Little Water

Ideal Sun Conditions: Full Sun Part-Shade

Mature Height: 12"
Mature Width: 24"
Description:

A sterile hybrid. Silver -gray green leaves form a spreading mound to 30" wide. Deer and rabbit resistant. Long bloom season.


Garden Notes: Cut back to new growth in early spring. It is one of the earlier spring blooming plants, so will need to be cleaned up in early to mid March to allow new growth to take off.