Native - Fine Gardening
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How-ToHow to Clean Up the Garden Without Harming Beneficial Insects
Traditionally in our region, gardens were cleaned up in fall for practical and aesthetic reasons. By spring, with weeding, watering, sowing, and dividing all begging for attention, time can be…
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Plant Guide
Hardy hummingbird trumpet
Zauschneria arizonicaThis heat-loving native Southwestern species has gray-green leaves and grows to 3 feet tall and 2 feet wide.
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Plant GuideSoapweed
Yucca glaucaThis clumping evergreen shrub with narrow leaves produces a startling, 3- to 4-foot-tall flower stalk.
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Plant GuideRusty blackhaw viburnum
Viburnum rufidulumWhile North American native viburnums occur most commonly in the eastern United States, rusty blackhaw viburnum flirts with the edge of the Plains.
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Plant GuideCulver’s root
Veronicastrum virginicum
This species has multiple tapering, soft spikes of white to pale pink or bluish purple flowers that look like elegant, living candelabras.
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Plant GuidePiggyback plant
Tolmiea menziesii ‘Taff’s Gold’With its mottled cream/green foliage, 'Taff's Gold' can brighten any dark garden area.
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Plant Guide
Propeller toad shade
Trillium stamineumThis striking spring-blooming species features narrow, chocolate-colored petals that twist like a propeller over slightly mottled leaves.
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Plant Guide
Giant trillium
Trillium chloropetalumThis species blooms in early to mid-spring with large blossoms of white, yellow, or deep purple-black.
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Plant GuideDwarf wakerobin
Trillium pusillumIn spring, the foliage of this petite species emerges a deep purple-black-green and is topped by white blooms with rippled petals.
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Plant GuideBent trillium
Trillium flexipesThis trillium produces large white flowers above the foliage in mid-spring, but the flowers are later hidden as the flower stalks nod.
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