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Verbena speciosa
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Click on image below to see additional images  Common Name: Imagination
Bloom Season: Spring to Fall
Bloom Color: Blue
Ideal Sun Conditions: Full Sun Mature Height: 12"
Mature Width: 20"
Description:
All-American and Fleuroselect winner. Small flowers of intense blue-violet in masses for bedding, container. Garden Notes: This may be my favorite plant to attract and feed adult butterflies. It begins blooming early and doesn't stop until a hard freeze. It is an annual, but reseeds itself to begin blooming for next years go round.
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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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Salvia officinalis
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Click on image below to see additional images  Common Name: Sage
Bloom Season: Summer
Bloom Color: Blue
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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Click on image below to see additional images  Common Name: European Cutleaf Sage
Bloom Season: Summer to Fall
Bloom Color: Blue
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.
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Salvia farinacea
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Click on image below to see additional images  Common Name: Victoria Blue
Bloom Season: Spring to Frost
Bloom Color: Blue
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
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Common Name: Goldstrum
Bloom Season: Summer
Bloom Color: Yellow
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. |
Rhus microphylla
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Common Name: Little-Leafed Sumac
Ideal Sun Conditions: Full Sun Mature Height: 120"
Mature Width: 120"
Description:
Panhandle native Deciduous shrub small leaves, Dark red tart edible berries red fall color Moderate to rapid growth, natural low hedge. |
Ratibida columnaris
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Click on image below to see additional images  Common Name: Mexican Hat Yellow
Bloom Season: All Summer
Bloom Color: Yellow/Red
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
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Common Name: Mexican Hat Red
Bloom Season: All Summer
Bloom Color: Yellow/Red
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. |
Parsley
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Common Name: Triple Curled
Ideal Sun Conditions: Full Sun Mature Height: 18"
Mature Width: 18"
Description:
Good for seasoning. Good plant for butterflies. Adults hang around to lay eggs on leaves, then caterpillars have food source when the eggs hatch. Plant enough for caterpillars and you to eat. Garden Notes: This is one of the better plants to plant for a variety of butterflies to lay eggs on.
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