Showy Flowers

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    Garden Scenes From Northern Ohio

    I’m Leigh Davenport, a northern Ohio gardener with over two decades of experience. This is my favorite color combination in the gardens now, Lemony Lace elderberry (Sambucus racemosa, Zone 3–7)…

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    ‘Strawberry Fields’ gomphrena

    Gomphrena haageana ‘Strawberry Fields’

    An upright, bushy annual with flowers (actually bracts) that resemble bright red strawberries with tiny yellow "seeds.

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    ‘Angelina’ sedum

    Sedum rupestre ‘Angelina’

    This vigorous, mat-forming, evergreen species has electric golden-yellow foliage that holds its color through the heat of summer.

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    Red-hot poker

    Kniphofia uvaria

    These tall spikes top off the perennial border with a burst of tropical-red racemes.

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    Jazz Hands® variegated Chinese fringe-flower

    Loropetalum chinense ‘Irodori’

    Jazz Hands Variegated Chinese Fringeflower is draped in stunning fragrant hot pink strap-like flowers along the branches in early spring.

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    ‘White Gold’ bleeding heart

    Lamprocapnos spectabilis ‘White Gold’

    Something different for the shade.

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    ‘Peach Drift’ Rose

    Rosa 'Meiggili'

    The Peach Drift® Rose is one of the most floriferous dwarf shrubs available. Soft peach blooms cover the plant from mid-spring to the first hard freeze of late Fall. Peach…

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    ‘Apricot Drift’ Rose

    Rosa 'Apricot Drift'

    Double apricot colored flowers begin blooming in spring and display a season-long show of color. It is just as tough and disease resistant as others in the series. Best suited…

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    Cool Wave Berries ‘N Cream trailing pansy

    Viola × wittrockiana Cool Wave® Berries 'N Cream trailing pansy

    Pansies are known as harbingers of spring for gardeners.

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    ‘Strawberries and Cream’ nasturtium

    Tropaeolum majus ‘Strawberries and Cream’

    This old-fashioned cultivar of the species has a mounding habit and grows to 12 inches tall and wide.