Personal Plant Palette
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Achillea millefolium ''Paprika''
Common Name: Paprika Yarrow
Sturdy, upright habit
Long-lasting blooms in red fading to pink
Great color for dry, sunny sites
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Height: 12-30 Inches
Spread: 24-30 Inches
USDA Hardiness Zone: 3 - 8
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Achillea millefolium ''Red Beauty''
Common Name: Red Beauty Yarrow
Sturdy, upright habit
Long-lasting blooms in red
Great color for dry, sunny sites
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Height: 12-24 Inches
Spread: 12-24 Inches
USDA Hardiness Zone: 3 - 8
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Acorus calamus
Common Name: Common Sweet Flag
Useful in water gardens
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Height: 24-30 Inches
Spread: 18-24 Inches
USDA Hardiness Zone: 4 - 10
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Agastache ''Blue Fortune''
Common Name: Blue Fortune Agastache
Great blue accent in the late summer border
Attracts butterflies
Drought-tolerant
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Height: 36-48 Inches
Spread: 15-18 Inches
USDA Hardiness Zone: 5 - 10
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Alchemilla mollis
Common Name: Lady's Mantle
Foliage is as desirable as blooms
Easy-to-grow
Excellent edging plant or filler for sun to part shade
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Height: 12-18 Inches
Spread: 18-24 Inches
USDA Hardiness Zone: 2 - 9
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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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Asarum arifolium
Common Name: Wild Ginger
Beautiful, bold foliage
Naturalizes to create large colonies
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Height: 6-12 Inches
Spread: 12-18 Inches
USDA Hardiness Zone: 4 - 6
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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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Astilbe X arendsii ''Flamingo', 'Pink Lightening', 'Sprite' and more'
Common Name: Astilbe
Great for the woodland border
Good color for the shady summer landscape
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Height: 24-30 Inches
Spread: 12-18 Inches
USDA Hardiness Zone: 4 - 9
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Baptisia alba
Common Name: White Wild Indigo
Graceful, arching habit
Three-season interest
Drought-tolerant
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Height: 24-36 Inches
Spread: 24-36 Inches
USDA Hardiness Zone: 3 - 8
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Betula nigra ''Cully''
Common Name: Dura Heat River Birch
Beautiful bark
Fast-growing
Tolerates drier, hotter and sunnier sites than native
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Height: 40-50 Feet
Spread: 20-30 Feet
USDA Hardiness Zone: 4 - 9
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Canna 'Orange Punch'
Common Name: Orange Punch Canna
Compact, fast-multiplying
Flowers in delicate pendant racemes not typical spike
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Height: 36-48 Inches
Spread: 12-18 Inches
USDA Hardiness Zone: 7 - 10
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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 glabra
Common Name: Turtlehead
White, snapdragon-like flowers
Hummingbirds and other pollinators love it
Perfect for moist, shady sites
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Height: 24-36 Inches
Spread: 18-24 Inches
USDA Hardiness Zone: 4 - 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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Coreopsis lanceolata ''Jethro Tull''
Common Name: Jethro Tull Coreopsis
Abundant flowers bloom all summer
Deep yellow flowers have fluted petals
Compact
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Height: 15-18 Inches
Spread: 15-18 Inches
USDA Hardiness Zone: 4 - 9
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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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Hemerocallis ''Double Orange''
Common Name: Double Orange 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: 24-30 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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