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Fiber Optic Grass
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6-12" High and wide, mounding, |
Annual |
9 |
Full Sun to Partial Shade |
Japanese Blood Grass |
10-18" tall and wide, clumps. |
Perennial |
5 (-10 to 20°F) |
Full Sun to Partial shade |
Black Mondo Grass |
Super cool black grass with chartreuse green centers. Small
mounded growth, apparently spreads in garden. I've only used it in pots. |
Perennial |
5 |
Full Sun to Part Shade |
Angelonia Angustifolia |
12-14" Long spikes filled with tiny flowers. Lavender
Stripe is my favorite. Blooms until a hard frost, very hardy. |
Annual |
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Full Sun, or in bright light under a covered porch. |
Coleus (this color-Sedona) |
24-36" Great foliage plants. In an array of funky colors.
Water moderately. Sedona is burnt orange with a tinge of blue. Blooms July-August
but you don't want it to flower, cut the buds off. |
Annual, but can be kept as house plant, easy to propagate
from cuttings. |
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Sun to Shade (how versatile is that!) |
Coral Bells |
Another great foliage plant. |
Perennial |
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Diamond Frost |
soft, dainty, numerous white flowers grow atop a bed of
green. 12-18"high spacing 10-12" |
Annual |
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Sun to part-shade |
Hakone Grass |
12-18" tall x 2' wide, Good brightening grass, mounding. |
Perennial |
5 |
Part Shade |
Plectranthus |
18"w x 6-12"high, grows fast up and down, could fill a pot
alone. |
Annual |
9-11 |
Full Sun - Part Shade |
Silver Foil
Plectranthus argentatus
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Texture, texture, texture. Soft trailing silver foliage.
Similar in feel to lambs ears. Love it, love it, love it. Fast grower. |
Annual |
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Sun |
Pony Tail Grass |
Soft, hair like foliage. Green and Tan. Best kept in pots
as can be invasive. |
Annual |
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Sun |
Arctotis |
African Daisy. From the Asteraceae family. |
Annual |
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Sun |
Arctotis |
Another form from the Asteraceae Family. Commonly called
African Daisy. Plant quickly gets larger and blooms profusely. |
Annual |
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Full Sun |
Carex Buchananii or Leather leaf Sedge, Curly Sedge |
Beautiful Copper/Bronze colored grass. Though it only lives
2-3 years. Likes to stay moist they say. |
Perennial (2-3 year lifespan) |
6-9 |
Full Sun to Part Shade |
Stolonifera 'Fran's Purple'; Phlox |
A smaller and later-blooming version of the Creeping Phlox,
this grows to about 1 ft. with medium purple flowers in May. Best in part
sun to shade and moist soil. |
Perennial |
4-9 |
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 Weigela |
Awsome color; purple black. Low mounding, full sun |
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Hemigraphis Alternata |
Trailing shiny leaves with a blue tone.12- 18"
high/18-24"wide. |
Annual |
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Sun to Part Shade |
Verbascum "Jackie" |
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Superbells |
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| Tips: more to come |
Iron for yellowing evergreens Mushroom Mauve - organic
fertilizer. How to Prune Hydrangea. |
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