Plant Seasonal Interest - Page 226 of 386

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    Maiden pink

    Dianthus deltoides

    This mat-forming species with dark green leaves is one of the easiest to grow.

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    Dragon’s-eye Japanese red pine

    Pinus densiflora 'Oculus Draconis'

    This pine's needles are marked with bands of yellow and green.

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    European red elder

    Sambucus racemosa ‘Sutherland Gold’

    This choice specimen has a graceful habit with finely divided golden foliage that emerges as bronze.

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    Dew flower

    Penstemon cobaea

    Penstemon cobaea has shiny dark green leaves and purple, pink, or white flowers on spike-like panicles in mid-spring.

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    Blue flax

    Linum lewisii

    Blue flax is a short-lived perennial with blue-green needlelike leaves on graceful 2-foot-tall stems.

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    ‘King of Hearts’ bleeding heart

    Dicentra ‘King of Hearts’

    'King of Hearts' has bright rose-pink, heart-shaped flowers in clusters over blue-green parsley-like foliage.

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    ‘Powis Castle’ artemisia

    Artemisia 'Powis Castle'

    This is a woody plant with dense clumps of silver-gray leaves.

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    Soapweed

    Yucca glauca

    This clumping evergreen shrub with narrow leaves produces a startling, 3- to 4-foot-tall flower stalk.

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    ‘Star of the East’ crocosmia

    Crocosmia 'Star of the East'

    To put it in perspective, ‘Star of the East’ crocosmia is as far removed from the well-known ‘Lucifer’ crocosmia as Lady Gaga is from an Appalachian clogger.

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    ‘River Nile’ Rex begonia

    Begonia 'River Nile'

    Unlike other Rex begonias, 'River Nile' isn't flashy.