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Salvia roemeriana

Common Name: Hot Trumpets 'Cedar Sage'
Bloom Season: Summer
Bloom Color: Red
Water Needs: Little Water Moderate Water

Ideal Sun Conditions: Full Sun Part-Shade

Mature Height: 8"
Mature Width: 10"
Description:

Red flowers, not showy, but constant when deadheaded. Nice foliage. Grow in part shade to mimic its natural habitat under cedars.


Salvia greggii 'ESTHER'S RED'

Common Name: 'Esthers Red' Autumn Sage
Bloom Season: Spring to Fall
Bloom Color: Red
Water Needs: Little Water Moderate Water

Ideal Sun Conditions: Full Sun Part-Shade

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

Shrub, hummingbirds,aromatic foliage, ordinary soil, can be sheared to a hedge,long bloom season-no deadheading.


Penstemon strictus

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Common Name: Rocky Mountain Penstemon
Bloom Season: Early Summer
Bloom Color: Blue/Purple
Water Needs: Little Water

Ideal Sun Conditions: Full Sun Part-Shade

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

Hummingbirds. Smooth bright green leaves. Easily grown, spreads some by stolons. Month long bloom.


Penstemon barbatus

Common Name: Pina Colada Series Violet
Bloom Season: Spring to Summer
Bloom Color: Violet
Water Needs: Little Water Moderate Water

Ideal Sun Conditions: Full Sun Part-Shade

Mature Height: 10"
Mature Width: 8"
Description:

Easy-to-grow, first-year-flowering perennial,compact growing habit, uniform and showy flowers, extended bloom time.


Garden Notes: This is the first year for me to grow this variety of penstemon. A related variety, Rondo pestemon, is one of the showiest Penstemon during its relatively short bloom season. Pinacolada is said to have a long bloom season. If the two are indeed combined in this plant it will be a great variety. Trial for 2010.

Penstemon barbatus

Common Name: Pina Colada Series Red
Bloom Season: Spring to Summer
Bloom Color: Red
Water Needs: Little Water Moderate Water

Ideal Sun Conditions: Full Sun Part-Shade

Mature Height: 10"
Mature Width: 8"
Description:

Easy-to-grow, first-year-flowering perennial,compact growing habit, uniform and showy flowers, extended bloom time.


Garden Notes: This is the first year for me to grow this variety of penstemon. A related variety, Rondo pestemon, is one of the showiest Penstemon during its relatively short bloom season. Pinacolada is said to have a long bloom season. If the two are indeed combined in this plant it will be a great variety. Trial for 2010

Monarda hybrida 'Bergamo'

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Common Name: Bee Balm
Bloom Season: Summer-All
Bloom Color: Rosey Purple
Water Needs: Moderate Water

Ideal Sun Conditions: Full Sun Part-Shade

Mature Height: 18"
Description:

FSG- Butterflies, branching, flowers early- then all summer. Nice container plant, High mildew tolerance.


Lonicera x hecktrottii

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Common Name: Coral Honeysuckle
Bloom Season: Summer to Fall
Bloom Color: Coral with Yellow
Water Needs: Little Water Moderate Water

Ideal Sun Conditions: Full Sun Part-Shade

Mature Height: 12'
Mature Width: 48"
Description:

Vigorous to 12 feet. Blue green leaves. Blooms summer to frost- Blue-green leaves. Deciduous or semi evergreen. Good for Hummingbirds


Garden Notes: I have had this plant for many years. It has performed very well each year.

Lonicera

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Common Name: 'Mandarin'
Bloom Season: Spring to Summer
Bloom Color: Orange with Yellow
Water Needs: Moderate Water

Ideal Sun Conditions: Full Sun Part-Shade

Mature Height: 150"
Description:

Deciduous vine. Fast growing: up to six feet per year. Foliage begins a deep coppery color turning to a lush green.


Garden Notes: This variety sent as a substitute for another that I had ordered. One source says this variety needs neutral or acidic soil.

Digitalis obscura

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Common Name: Sunset Foxglove
Bloom Season: Spring
Bloom Color: Rose with yellow
Water Needs: Little Water Moderate Water

Ideal Sun Conditions: Full Sun Part-Shade

Mature Height: 16"
Mature Width: 18"
Description:

Large bells of dusty rose with yellow markings at throat. Good in dry arrangements


Garden Notes: Biennial? Mine has died after blooming the second year. May just be the conditions I give it. Has a very nice dusky-orange bloom.

Buddleia daviddii

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Common Name: Butterfly Bush
Bloom Season: Summer to Fall
Bloom Color: Violet
Water Needs: Moderate Water

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.