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The perfect addition when you have an area that needs some winter interest! The bright red stems will give your landscaping that "pop" of color to bring more life to the winter landscape. At 3-5' tall, this dwarf variety of dogwood is much easier to adapt into a smaller landscape than the usual 8' varieties.
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- Location: Full Sun
- Size: 3' ft - 5' ft tall
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This beautiful variety of Epimedium features golden yellow flowers with small rose sepals that create a stunning contrast against its deep green lance-shaped leaves. While its leaves have some sporadic spotting, they remain healthy and robust throughout the growing season. This variety is known to be a season extender, meaning it blooms later than other varieties, providing a longer period of enjoyment in the garden. They are also rabbit and deer resistant.
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- Bloom Time: April, May
- Location: Part or Full Shade
- Flower Color: Yellow
- Soil Conditions: Average Moisture
- Size: 16"-18" inches tall
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You will love this dwarf evergreen which grows to 3-5 ft by 3-5 ft spread and yields dramatic golden, weeping, needled branches. Excellent texture and dramatic color! Pretty enough as foundation plantings in the front of your home or use it as a backdrop for contrasting plants, say something with a broad leaf and/or bold flowers. Also called Gold mop cypress or golden mop cypress
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- Location: sun, part shade
- Soil Conditions: dry to medium
- Size: 3-5 ft x 3-5 ft spread
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This is an evergreen pyramid shaped plant with soft fern-like branches. This perfect ornamental evergreen conifer adds architectural interest to your landscape.
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- Location: Full Sun
- Soil Conditions: Average Moisture
- Size: 6' ft -10' ft tall
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This variety of False Sunflower has a compact habit, deep golden yellow flowers. These 2 inch flowers appear above the cream and green variegated foliage. Add this perennial into your landscaping for some striking color!
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- Bloom Time: July, August
- Location: Sun, Part Sun
- Flower Color: yellow
- Soil Conditions: Medium
- Size: 16" inches tall
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This beautiful daisy thrives in full sun and forms bright golden yellow flowers with an orange-gold button center. It has a bushy, well-branched form and glossy, deep green, triangular leaves. It attracts butterflies and it can be a nice focal point for your home.
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- Bloom Time: July, August
- Location: Full Sun or Part Shade
- Flower Color: Gold, Orange
- Soil Conditions: Average Moisture
- Size: 24"-36" inches tall
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Also called Japanese shield fern or autumn fern, this one grows in an arched fashion and provides young orange-red to cinnamon-pink fronds light up against the glossy, deeper green coloring of mature fronds. Does well in woodland or shade areas. Plant massively to provide a noteworthy ground cover. Bonus: no serious insect or disease problems!
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- Location: Partial Shade
- Flower Color: none
- Soil Conditions: Moist
- Size: 2' ft tall
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This Missouri native fern is a classic woodland fern that crossed the river to delight Illinois gardeners. It will produce tall brown fiddleheads in the spring. Deep green fronds turn cinnamon brown as they mature. As you'd expect it delights in moist, nearly boggy ground, by streams, creeks, ponds; but also try it on ledges, say in a rock display or garden area that's tough to mow!
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- Location: Full shade, part shade
- Soil Conditions: wet
- Size: 36"-48" inches tall
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Frosted apple green fronds emit a ghostly white light in the shade. Along with the dark purple midribs and stems which hold the broad fronds upright otherwise dark, shady spots are brightened. Plant a variety of ferns together and create an elegant background or a graceful ground cover. If you have flowers you cut for use in vases add a sprig or two of fern leaves for contrast.
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- Bloom Time: July, August, September
- Location: Shade, Partial Shade
- Soil Conditions: Moist
- Size: 2'-3' ft tall
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Striking metallic gray and red sheen on the leaves contribute to this fern's popularity. It grows 12-18 inches and stays in place - no spreading itself around! You can divide it over time, in early spring. Find a home for it in the shade; enjoy the weeping arch of the beautiful fronds. Don't let this perennial dry out - moisture is essential.
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- Location: Partial Sun, Shade
- Flower Color: None
- Soil Conditions: Moist
- Size: 12"-18" inches tall
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Emerald green, lacy fronds arise delicately from creeping rhizomes. Plant clumps are dense and upright. Here's a fern which is vigorous, easy to grow, and looks grand anywhere!
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- Bloom Time: June, July, August
- Location: Shade, part shade
- Soil Conditions: wet
- Size: 12"-24" inches tall
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It is a certain sign that spring has arrived when the forsythia shrubs are adorned with golden yellow blooms. Here is a hardy, rapid growing, upright growing shrub which reaches 3-8 ft. tall with a 3-8 ft spread. If you want to prune it do it right after flowering as it will bloom again the next year on existing stems. It lives a great live in average, well-drained soil and excels in blooming in full sun.
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- Bloom Time: March, April
- Location: Sun
- Flower Color: Yellow
- Soil Conditions: Medium
- Size: 3-8 ft tall x 3-8 ft spread
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A dense, small (dwarf) shrub with bottle-brush fragrant flowers. Ready to share their splendor they bloom before the leaves appear. Your plants will reach 3-4 ft tall. The summer's foliage provides a great fall palette of yellow, orange and red.
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- Bloom Time: March, April
- Location: Sun, Partial Sun
- Flower Color: White
- Soil Conditions: medium, moist
- Size: 3-4' Tall x 4-6 ft spread
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This perennial forms an upright habit topped with beautiful blue flowers. In the fall, the foliage turns bright red. They blend nicely with most other perennials and offer continuous color throughout the summer months.
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- Bloom Time: May, June, July
- Location: Full Sun or Part Shade
- Flower Color: Purple Shades
- Soil Conditions: Average Moisture
- Size: 24"-28" inches tall
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Large, violet blue flowers with white centers from early summer through frost. This is a long blooming perennial geranium! Slightly marbled, deep green foliage forms spreading mounds. Full sun for morning and a little protection in the afternoon are in order although this perennial is exceptionally tolerant of heat. You can re-shape and rejuvenate it by clipping areas where flowering has ceased. Take off side stems to prevent spreading.
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- Bloom Time: May, June, July, August, September
- Location: Partial Sun, Sun
- Flower Color: purplish-blue
- Soil Conditions: medium
- Size: 15"-20" inches tall
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This smaller variety of Geranium grows well in full sun to part shade. It will grow vigorously in areas with moist soil conditions. Lightly shearing the foliage after flowering can revitalize the blooms!
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- Bloom Time: May, June
- Location: Full Sun or Partial Sun
- Flower Color: Purple
- Soil Conditions: Average Moisture
- Size: 12"-18" inches tall
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This part shade-loving plant produces beautiful sprays of lacy, cream-colored flowers in late spring to early summer. It is very floriferous when it's in bloom, completely covering the deep green foliage.
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- Bloom Time: June, July
- Location: Full Sun or Part Shade
- Flower Color: White
- Soil Conditions: Average Moisture
- Size: 24"-32" inches tall
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Big Bluestem is a warm season, perennial tall grass with blue, green stems. This is a native of Midwestern tallgrass prairie. It's a great ornamental, border plant.
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- Bloom Time: July, August
- Location: Full Sun
- Flower Color: Purple
- Soil Conditions: Average Moisture
- Size: 5' ft tall
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An improved 'Hameln ' grass. The leaves are narrow and green that form an upright vase-shaped clump. The bottle brush plumes emerge in August and start out a smoky red-purple then turn to tan. This grass is a show-stopper!
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- Bloom Time: July, August
- Location: Full Sun
- Flower Color: Red, purple, tan
- Soil Conditions: medium, dry
- Size: 30" inches tall
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Long hair like leaves topped with tan flower panicles. It creates a popcorn like fragrance when in bloom.
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- Bloom Time: August
- Location: full sun
- Flower Color: Tan
- Soil Conditions: dry, Average moisture
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It is a slow growing grass that shines even in shady areas. It tends to be more yellow green in heavier shade, and brighter gold in more sun.
It will not rapidly overtake its neighboring plants. We recommend planting it where it can cascade down slopes and drape over rocks.
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- Bloom Time: August, September
- Location: part shady, full shade
- Soil Conditions: average moisture
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A fine textured ornamental grass forming upright mounding clumps. Fountain grass grows 2 ft tall, and blooms in the fall. Blooms look like little fox tails. Works well as a cut flower but foliage stays great looking through the winter and you can divide it in the spring.
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- Bloom Time: August, September
- Location: Full Sun
- Flower Color: Cream
- Soil Conditions: Medium, Dry
- Size: 2' ft tall
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This is a reed grass which produces showy, feathery plumes bearing striking, erect, wheat-colored seed heads. Its vertical presence is magnificent, reaching 4-5 ft tall; it only gets a spread of 2 feet! Works well as a cut flower or mix it up for a natural bouquet.
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- Bloom Time: June
- Location: Sun
- Flower Color: Golden
- Soil Conditions: Medium, Moist
- Size: 4-5' x 2' spread
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A similar variety of Karl Foerster grass that will grow in shade! It has bright green, erect leaves and grows about 3-4 ft tall when in bloom. The flower plumes emerge pinkish then turn to cream in the fall.
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- Location: shade, partial sun, sun
- Flower Color: pinkish-tan
- Soil Conditions: dry, medium
- Size: 3'-4' ft tall
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A lovely dwarf ornamental grass with graceful, arching blades with eye-catching ivory to yellow highlights. Tall, upright flower stems topped with feathery, silver-white, summer plumes that soften and curl as they dry. A bold, striking selection perfect for borders, containers, and naturalized areas or edges of water gardens.
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- Bloom Time: Sept
- Location: Sun
- Soil Conditions: medium-dry
- Size: 3'-4' ft tall
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