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Plant Guide‘Pink Octopus’ spreading bellflower
Campanula 'Pink Octopus'I have a penchant for vigorous, spreading plants: For the price of one plant I can get tons more for free.
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Plant Guide‘Shades of Orange’ hummingbird mint, ‘Shades of Orange’ hyssop
Agastache aurantiaca 'Shades of Orange'
A cultivar discovered at High Country Gardens in Santa Fe, New Mexico, this aromatic, water-wise perennial grows to 30 inches tall and 18 inches wide and features fine, mint-scented, gray-green…
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Plant GuideJapanese yellow sage
Salvia koyamaeAt first glance, this Japanese woodland native does not look as if it belongs in a shade garden, but I find its spreading foliage and light-colored flowers do wonderfully as…
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Plant GuideSnow-in-summer
Cerastium tomentosumSnow-in-summer is great for rock gardens and dry areas, and also works well as a container plant.
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Plant Guide‘Boulder Blue’ blue fescue
Festuca glauca ‘Boulder Blue’Regarded by some as the bluest blue fescue, this plant forms compact, cascading mounds of foot-tall, intensely blue, narrow leaves that are attractive in all seasons.
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Plant GuideToyon, Christmas berry, California holly
Heteromeles arbutifoliaThis evergreen, California-native shrub grows to 20 feet tall and wide and produces abundant clusters of tiny white flowers in early summer, which attract beneficial insects that help control pests.
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Plant GuideMrs. Robb’s bonnet
Euphorbia amygdaloides var. robbiaeThis variety has dark, glossy evergreen leaves arranged in tight rosettes, and it produces yellow-green bracts in mid-spring and early summer.
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Plant GuideGolden barrel cactus
Echinocactus grusoniiGolden barrel cactus has a rounded form that eventually elongates.
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Plant GuideOcotillo
Fouquieria splendensThis southwestern native shrub grows to 20 feet tall and 15 feet wide and sports long, dull, spiny stems that green up and leaf out after a rain, followed by…
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