Attracts Hummingbirds
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Plant GuideRed-hot poker
Kniphofia uvariaThese tall spikes top off the perennial border with a burst of tropical-red racemes.
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Sponsored ContentSullivant’s milkweed
Asclepias sullivantiiSullivant's milkweed is a long-lived perennial and a well-behaved relative of the common milkweed.
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Sponsored ContentHeatwave™ Blaze Sage
Salvia 'EGGBEN005' P.P.#24,151This aromatic, evergreen shrub produces massed displays of dark crimson blooms from spring to fall. Easy to grow, with a compact, rounded habit and exceptional tolerance for dry conditions. Ideal…
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Plant GuideNodding onion
Allium cernuum
This plant produces open clusters of pinkish purple, droplet-shaped flowers along drooping, arching 2-foot-tall stems.
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Plant GuideSalvia pachyphylla
Salvia pachyphylla
Giant-flowered purple sage has been winning over gardeners the past few years for its remarkable summer blooms and tough-as-nails demeanor.
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Plant GuideCalibrachoa Superbells® Dreamsicle
Calibrachoa Superbells® DreamsicleCalibrachoas are great alternatives to petunias.
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Plant Guide‘Indigo Spires’ sage
Salvia ‘Indigo Spires’'Indigo Spires' sage is a vigorous hybrid prized for its 12- to 15-inch-long, twisting spikes of dark violet flowers.
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Plant Guide
‘Walker’s Low’ catmint
Nepeta × faassenii 'Walker's Low'This mound of lavender-blue flowers and aromatic, grayish green leaves up to 2 feet tall and 3 feet wide is great as edging or in a border, herb, or rock garden.
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Plant GuideCardinal penstemon
Penstemon cardinalisThis New Mexico/Texas native offers the garden spikes of dangling, rich red flowers in midsummer that attract hummingbirds.
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Plant GuideGermander sage
Salvia chamaedryoidesThis choice species boasts narrow, downy sage-green leaves and true sky-blue blossoms from summer to fall.
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