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Plant Guide‘Dark Reiter’ geranium
Geranium pratense 'Dark Reiter''Dark Reiter', a fairly new cultivar, has a short mounded habit and dissected dark leaves.
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Plant GuideLily-of-the-valley bush
Pieris japonica
This neat, rounded shrub has given rise to many noteworthy cultivars.
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Plant Guide‘Blue Star’ singleseed juniper
Juniperus squamata 'Blue Star''Blue Star' jumiper is a slow-growing, compact, evergreen shrub with a mounding shape.
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Plant GuideDwarf Serbian spruce
Picea omorika ‘Nana’A compact plant with a mature height of 8 feet, this conifer is densely globe-shaped when young, becoming pyramidal as it ages.
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Plant Guide
‘Dorothy Wyckoff’ andromeda
Pieris japonica ‘Dorothy Wyckoff’This compact, rounded shrub produces reddish-purple buds that first open as soft pink then mature to white.
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Plant GuideColorado blue spruce
Picea pungens ‘Glauca Pendula'This spruce has blue foliage and drooping branches.
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Plant GuideSargent’s weeping hemlock
Tsuga canadensis 'Pendula'This hemlock cultivar makes a very beautiful specimen, slowly forming a 10- to 15-foot-tall and 30-foot-wide, multi-layered mound of greenery.
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Plant GuideMound lily
Yucca gloriosaThis sculptural plant bears sword-like leaves to 24 inches long in shades of blue- or gray-green and maturing to dark green, with smooth margins.
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Plant GuideGolden larch
Pseudolarix kaempferiThe golden larch is a lovely deciduous conifer whose lacy foliage turns golden in autumn.
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Plant GuideRue anemone
Anemonella thalictroides 'Rosea'The only member of its genus, rue anemone is a tuberous perennial native to the woodlands of eastern North America.
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