Personal Plant Palette
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Aquilegia canadensis
Common Name: Columbine
Classic hummingbird favorite
Foliage remains attractive through summer
Interesting groundcover or filler plant
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Height: 18-24 Inches
Spread: 10-12 Inches
USDA Hardiness Zone: 3 - 8
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Armeria splendens
Common Name: Sea Thrift
Easy-to-grow
Great texture
Bright color for sunny, dry sites
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Height: 8-10 Inches
Spread: 6-12 Inches
USDA Hardiness Zone: 4-8
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Asclepias curassavica
Common Name: Blood Flower
Long-blooming with great color
Attracts butterflies and hummingbirds
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Height: 24-36 Inches
Spread: 18-24 Inches
USDA Hardiness Zone: 9 - 11
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Aster oblongifolius
Common Name: Aromatic Aster
Profuse blooms
Naturalizes well and tolerates a variety of sites
Attracts butterflies
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Height: 24-36 Inches
Spread: 24-36 Inches
USDA Hardiness Zone: 3 - 7
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Chasmanthium latifolium
Common Name: Northern Sea Oats
Beautiful foliage and seed heads
Good for moist shade to part sun
Easy to grow and naturalize
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Height: 24-36 Inches
Spread: 24-30 Inches
USDA Hardiness Zone: 5 - 8
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Chelone obliqua
Common Name: Rose Turtlehead
Pink, snapdragon-like flowers
Hummingbirds and other pollinators love it
Perfect for moist, shady sites
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Height: 30-48 Inches
Spread: 12-18 Inches
USDA Hardiness Zone: 5 - 8
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Dianthus gratianopolitanus ''Firewitch''
Common Name: Firewitch Dianthus
Heat- and drought-tolerant
Great flower and foliage color
Prolific bloomer
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Height: 6-12 Inches
Spread: 18-24 Inches
USDA Hardiness Zone: 5 - 9
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Hemerocallis ''Happy Returns''
Common Name: Happy Returns Daylily
Good bloom strength summer to frost
Hardy and disease-resistant
Attracts hummingbirds
Great in naturalized plantings or monocultures
Drought-tolerant, deer and rabbit resistant
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Height: 15-18 Inches
Spread: 15-18 Inches
USDA Hardiness Zone: 4 - 9
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Zinnia angustifolia X elegans ''Profusion White''
Common Name: Profusion White Zinnia
Versatile, disease-resistant annual
Variety of color forms
Blooms from early spring through fall with deadheading
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Height: 12-18 Inches
Spread: 12-24 Inches
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Zinnia elegans ''Zowie Yellow Flame''
Common Name: Zowie Zinnia
Brilliant color for summer to frost
Heat- and drought-tolerant
Disease-resistant
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Height: 24-30 Inches
Spread: 12-18 Inches
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