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Calamagrostis brachytrichaKorean Feather Reed Grass
Calamagrostis brachytricha is a clump-forming, warm season grass with bright green leaves reaching about 2 feet. In late summer blooms emerge with a pink tint and reach 3 to 4 feet. The feathery flowers fade to cream in fall and finish in a straw col...
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Calamagrostis x 'Avalanche'Feather Reed Grass
A bright form of C. 'Karl Forester' selected by Steve Schmidt for its wide, white stripe in the center and for the creamy flowers that appear in mid summer and turn to golden straw in fall. ANn excellent cool season grass that is especially striking ...
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Calamagrostis x acutiflora 'Karl Foerster'Feather Reed Grass
One of the most popular garden grasses in the world, Karl Foerster is known for its ease of culture, tidy vertical habit and beautiful feathery blooms. In mid summer flowers open a creamy white tinged with pink. As they age they become narrow plumes ...
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Calamintha nepatoides 'White Cloud'Calamint
Bright white flowers are larger and showier than the species. It is a longer-lived and better smelling substitute for baby's breath! June-October bloom in an average to dry location....
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Calamintha nepeta spp. nepetaThousand Flowered Aster
Airy plumes with numerous small barely blue flowers over mint scented, oregeno-like foliage, June- October. Great in rock walls. It does need good drainage. It looks like a small, light blue Heuchera when in flower, which seems like all the time....
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Callirhoe involucrataPoppy Mallow
An outstanding and very attractive plant with low growing, deeply dissected dark green foliage that gives rise to an explosion of electric purple, single, upright flowers from July to early September. This plant behaves like an ivy. It is taprooted a...
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Caltha palustrisMarsh Marigold
Native to northern states and Canada, this little beauty is at home at pond's edge or along a stream. It is clumping by nature, but can seed in to form a dense groundcover in a consistently moist site. In early spring hundreds of bright yellow butter...
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Calylophus serrulatus 'Prairie Lode'Prairie Lode Sun Drops
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Carex amphibolaCreek Sedge
Carex amphibola is a widely adaptable native sedge naturally occurring from Texas to Quebec and Georgia to New Hampshire. The compact and semi-erect mound has proven to be semi evergreen (zone 6b) and prefers deciduous shade in upland or even floodpl...
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Carex appalachicaAppalachian Sedge
This lovely sedge is native to the dry woods of eastern North America. Its fine texture and fountaining habit make it a lovely groundcover in dry shady sites, even in the root zone of trees. Its tidy clumping habit makes it a perfect feature in a con...
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Carex dolichostachya 'Gold Fountains (Kaga Nishiki)'Gold Fountain Sedge
This shade loving sister of C. 'Evergold' is bright gold with attractive narrow (1/4" ) foliage almost all year. Striking, long-lived and reliable. Works well in average garden conditions and in containers....
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Carex eburneabristleleaf sedge
A wonderful naturalizer, Carex eburnea is the ideal native groundcover for the woodland or rock garden. Petite colonies of 6-8 inch long soft, thread-like foliage takes on a spherical shape as inconspicuous whitish-green flower spikes appear in early...
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Carex emoryiEmory's Sedge
A wetland native that forms dense tussocks of straw-colored leaves at the base with bright green new growth emerging from the top. An emergent aquatic, C. emoryi is found on shores, stream banks, wet meadows, and seepage areas from Newfoundland south...
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Carex flacca 'Blue Zinger'Blue Zinger Sedge
This Emerald Coast intrduction is indeed an improvement over the species. It is much more light blue than what we'd previously grown. Excellent and versatile shade groundcover for dry or moist spots. Cool season, evergreen in warm climates, more clum...
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Carex flaccospermaBlue Wood Sedge
A beautiful native groundcover with striking glaucus blue foliage, Blue Wood Sedge is easy to grow and evergreen in warmer zones, though it benefits from a late winter cut back. Early spring flowers are slender and form interesting seed heads. Forms ...
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Carex laxiculmus Bunny Blue™ 'HOBB'Bunny Blue Sedge
Bunny Blue Carex is a low growing, evergreen, native sedge with silver-blue foliage. Use as a ground cover or specimen plant for moist to average shady areas. Native plant....
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Carex morrowii 'Ice Dance'Japanese Sedge
A bright groundcover for a shady spot, Ice Dance has long shiny leaves trimmed in bright white. It spreads slowly to fill in and make a tidy cover that discourages weeds. Deer and disease resistant, it is long-lasting and easy to grow!...
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Carex morrowii 'Silver Sceptre'Japanese Sedge
A beautiful selection of this sedge, this one has narrow (1/4") leaves with white margins, giving it a very fine texture overall. Rhizomatous, forming thick silvery clumps. A bright addition to the shade palette!...
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Carex muskingumensis 'Oehme'Variegated Palm Sedge
A sport found in the garden of Wolfgong Oheme by Tony Avent, this sedge emerges as light green, but soon clear yellow edges appear. The foliage radiated horizontally on top of 12"-18" stems, resembling a small palm tree. A great native substitute for...
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Carex oshimensis 'Evergold'Golden Sedge
Fountains of narrow leaves with broad cream stripes adorn this clump-forming, shade-loving grass. Evergold is lovely spilling over into a path or as an architectural feature in a container or window box. Deer and disease resistant, it is long-lasting...
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Carex pensylvanicaPennsylvania Sedge
With its tough disposition and spreading habit, this native grass makes an excellent shade groundcover. Fine texture and fountaining habit give this sedge a soft appearance that is lovely as an underplanting for bolder shade perennials or on its own ...
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Carex plantagineaSeersucker Sedge
Shiny deep green leaves are unusually broad (to 1 1/8") and puckered like Christmas ribbon. An excellent, mostly evergreen (the basal foliage overwinters) groundcover for average to moist shade, provides unique texture. Flowers occur in early to mid-...
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Carex platyphyllaSilver Sedge
A spectacular new clump-froming sedge with powder blue leaves up to an inch or more wide. Spreads slowly to form a wonderfully textured groundcover in moist or average soil. Tolerates dry shade once established. An early spring haircut makes room for...
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Carex siderosticha 'Variegata'Broad-Leaf Sedge
This is a very bright and attractive spreading groundcover. Wide bright green leaves with distinct white stripes form slowly spreading clumps. It is completely deciduous, often emerging just when you wonder if it has made it through the winter. Noted...
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Carex strictaTussock Sedge
A wetland native that forms dense tussocks of straw-colored leaves at the base with bright green new growth emerging from the top. Spreads via rhizomes. Found in wet meadows. Emergent aquatic. For more information and photos: [ More Info ]
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Carex tenuiculmis 'Cappuccino'New Zealand Hair Sedge
Vibrant foliage emerges a rich red brown and transitions to a coppery brown with age, often accented with bright orange tips. Come autumn, the red tones return, often accented with oranges and yellows. Listed as zone 7, we have seen it survive two wi...
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Caryopteris x 'Dark Knight'Blue Mist
Blue Mist Shrub is aptly named as its gray-green foliage is shrouded in a cloud of blue from mid to late summer. It is a well-behaved garden plant that is very attractive to butterflies. Dark Knight has deep purple blue flowers closely spaced on long...
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Caryopteris x 'Longwood Blue'Blue Mist
Blue Mist Shrub is aptly named as it is shrouded in a cloud of blue from mid to late summer. It is a well-behaved garden plant that is very attractive to butterflies. Longwood Blue has sky blue flowers topping silvery foliage for a striking combinati...
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Caryopteris x 'Snow Fairy'Variegated Blue Mist Shrub
Snow Fairy's outstanding white-rimmed leaves provide a delicate and full texture in the border all summer. Its habit is compact and well-branched, and it shows beautifully in a nursery pot. In late summer or early fall it is topped with airy blue flo...
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Caryopteris 'Inoveris' Grand Bleu™Blue Mist Shrub
Blue Mist Shrub is aptly named as it is shrouded in a cloud of blue from mid to late summer. It is a well-behaved garden plant that is very attractive to butterflies. 'Inoveris' Grand BleuTM boasts numerous deep blue flowers topping glossy...
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Ceratostigma plumbaginoidesPlumbago
Brilliant blue flowers with striking red calyces cover bright green foliage from mid-summer to fall, when the leaves turn deep red. A wonderful groundcover, it is a great choice for beds of spring bulbs because it emerges late, as the bulb foliage de...
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Chasmanthium latifoliumNorthern Sea Oats
A versatile native grass with bamboo-like foliage and delightful nodding seed heads that rustle in the breeze from late summer to winter. It grows in most sites and is a quite vigorous groundcover when given consistent moisture and sun. It is better ...
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Cheilanthes lanosaHairy Lip Fern
Cheilanthes lanosa is a soft-textured fern with fuzzy green leaflets along a chestnut brown stipe. It is a great choice for rock walls and shady trough gardens, but performs beautifully in average well-drained garden soil and in containers with regul...
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Chelone glabraTurtlehead
Spikes of elegant white flowers top shiny green foliage in late summer and early fall. Grows best in moist meadows, stream banks, and swamps. Favorite breeding sight for the Baltimore Checkerspot Butterfly....
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Chelone lyonii 'Hot Lips'Pink Turtlehead
Lustrous, deeper green foliage, topped in August and September with rose pink turtle head shaped flowers. Red stems that persist most of the season. Bronze green early season growth is another distinctive feature....
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Chrysogonum virginianum 'Allen Bush'Golden Star
A native ground cover, this plant is known for both it's foliage and flowers with toothed, light green, triangular leaves and dark yellow, slightly notched, star shaped flowers that bloom well above the foliage and have contrasting brown stamens. The...
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Chrysogonum virginianum var. australeGreen and Gold
This Golden Star is very similar to Chrysogonum virginianum 'Allen Bush', but has shorter stems and stolons that spread above ground. With a compact and low growing form, this plant has the deepest and shiniest green foliage of them all and typical, ...
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Chrysopsis marianaMaryland goldenaster
A wonderful new addition to the fall palette of pink and blue asters. Clusters of loose, single, 2", bright yellow daisy flowers cover the plant in the fall. Hairy Golden Aster truly is drought tolerant and easy to grow....
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Coreopsis 'Jethro Tull'Jethro Tull tickseed
New from Itsaul Plants, this stunning little guy seems to always be in bloom. A cross between 'Zamphir' and 'Early Sunrise', it has broader fluted petals, a compact habit and an extended flowering season. Responds beautifully to cutting back, but wil...
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Coreopsis auriculata 'Nana'Mouse Ear Coreopsis
Mouse Ear Coreopsis is loaded with brilliant bright orange flowers that are a great source of early spring color. Deep green, shiny leaves form a low clump and planted closely they will keep weeds to a minimum. This plant spreads nicely by seed witho...
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Coreopsis Big Bang™ 'Redshift'Redshift Tickseed
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Coreopsis Big Bang™ 'Full Moon'Full Moon Tickseed
The premiere introduction of the Big Bang series from breeder Darrell Probst. Large, canary yellow, single daisy-shaped blooms reach a full 3 inches in diameter. Well-branched, compact stems with medium sized leaves create a mounding habit. 'Full Moo...
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Coreopsis Creme Brulee™Tickseed
A more vigorous version of 'Moonbeam' that fills in faster in the spring and has larger flowers that occur all along the stems rather than just above the foliage, giving a fuller overall appearence. This plant is new to us, but did overwinter 100% in...
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Coreopsis Limerock Passion™Tickseed
A bright new color from Blooms of Bressingham! Rose pink flowers cover fine foliage in early summer and continue without interruption until frost. A vigorous grower, but it has not overwintered for us in PA....
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Coreopsis Limerock Ruby™Hybrid Tickseed
Rosy red 1 1/2" single flowers with gold centers cover the finely cut foliage in early summer and throughout the season. Habit is improved by periodic cutbacks. Another introduction from Blooms of Bressingham. Not recommended for fall planting....
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Coreopsis pubescens 'Sunshine Superman'Tickseed
A North Creek original, this selection of C. pubescens var. pubescens blooms non stop from mid-summer until October here with saucer-like flowers over low spreading, slightly fuzzy foliage. An easy self sowing plant, when happy. Likes hot, bright, we...
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Coreopsis rosea 'American Dream'Pink Tickseed
This coreopsis stands erect with bright pink flowers and a beady yellow center. The foliage is thin and delicate, finely branching in whorls that create an airy appearance....
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Coreopsis Sweet Dreams™Sweet Dreams Tickseed
Each white flower has a deep rose ring surrounding a golden middle. Flowers cover the finely cut foliage in early summer and throughout the season. An excellent introduction from Blooms of Bressingham....
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Coreopsis veriticillata 'Moonbeam'Threadleaf Coreopsis
Awarded the 1992 Perennial Plant Association Plant of the Year Award, Coreopsis 'Moonbeam' is a dependable bloomer and all round plant. The flowers of Threadleaf Coreopsis are a glowing, lemon-yellow color and sit on top of tall, erect, lacey, somewh...
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Coreopsis verticillata 'Zagreb'Threadleaf Coreopsis
Winner of the 2001 RHS Award of Garden Merit, this Threadleaf Coreopsis is just a little bit shorter than 'Moonbeam'. 'Zagreb' has bright yellow flowers that sit atop tall, erect, lacey, somwhat mound forming, delicate (thread leaf) looking, green fo...
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Coreopsis verticillataThread-leaf Tickseed
This hardy species is a delightful and tough landscape solution. Taller and more vigorous than 'Moonbeam' or 'Zagreb', it has bright yellow flowers for 8 weeks or more, from late May to early August and often later. Drought tolerant and easy to grow...
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Coreopsis verticillata 'Route 66'Route 66 Tickseed
Get your kicks with 'Route 66'!
'Route 66' was discovered in 2005 as a seedling in the garden of Patti Bauer, of Bauer's Forever Flowers in Lucinda PA. This new threadleaf coreopsis bears yellow flowers with a ring of burgundy around the crown tha...
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Coreopsis verticillata 'Sienna Sunset'Sienna Sunset Tickseed
'Sienna Sunset' parades its attention-grabbing flower color while still sharing all the same terrific qualities as its parent, Coreopsis 'Crème Brulee'. It is outstanding when planted in masses, displaying a long bloom time and large burnt sienna col...
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Coreopsis x 'Tequila Sunrise'Variegated Tickseed
This coreopsis has continuous blooming, bright, yellow flowers with deep orange centers. But what makes this plant spectacular is it's foliage. The medium, narrow, green leaves have a variegated creamy yellow color with a hint of pink that turns a da...
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