Creative Containers
Containers are a great way to add color to any area--including late season borders. Consider something unusual, like small shrubs and trees that can later be used in a permanent location.
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Butterfly Attracting (81)
Creative Containers (52)
Drought-Defiant (87)
Midwest Native (84)
Salt-Tolerant Plants (26)
Shade-tolerant (54)
Trees & Shrubs (74)
Panicum virgatum ''Heavy Metal''
Common Name: Heavy Metal Switch Grass
Native Switch Grass and taller Switch Grass cultivars can become floppy, but 'Heavy Metal' is shorter and the steely blue-green foliage is very upright. Next to the cultivar, 'Dallas Blues,' 'Heavy Metal' looks petite. It is well-suited to the border...
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Paonia obovata
Common Name: Woodland Peony
Woodland Peony has spectacular white flowers with purple filaments. In spring, purple divided leaves push through the soil, rapidly unfurling and turning green. The bloom colors vary, and range from white or light pink to magenta and red. ...
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Patrinia scabiosifolia 'Nagoya'
Common Name: Patrinia
Easily grown in average, medium, well-drained soil in full sun. Prefers rich, humusy soils. Tolerant of hot and humid summers. This Patrinia cultivar is clump-forming and almost identical to the species, except it is lower growing. ...
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Pennisetum 'Prince'
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'Prince' is a breakthrough in ornamental grasses. The purple foliage becomes even more purple as the summer gets hotter, quite a change to most plants that fade in summer heat. The habit is much fuller than other purple grasses and the growth is far...
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Pennisetum ''Princess''
Common Name: Princess Napiergrass
Pennisetum 'Princess' is an exotic grass from South America. It is hardy to zone 8 but looks spectacular when planted as an accent or container plant in Northern gardens. The saber-shaped leaves emerge narrow, dappled green and purple and become prog...
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Pennisetum alopecuroides ''Hameln''
Common Name: Dwarf Fountain Grass
In late summer, buff-colored flower heads of Dwarf Fountain Grass pop up in profusion on 12" spikes. The graceful fountain-like plumes slowly change color from buff to soft pinks and light-colored maroons. One to three plants are effective in small g...
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Physocarpus opulifolia ''Mindia''
Common Name: Coppertina Ninebark
Coppertina Ninebark is a great new addition to the Ninebark family of native shrubs. Coppertina is a new cross between the golden ninebark 'Darks Gold' and the purple leafed ninebark Diabolo ('Monlo'). Plants have orange-copper foliage in the spring ...
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Picea bicolor 'Howell's Dwarf Tigertail'
Common Name: Howell's Dwarf Tigertail Spruce
'Howell's Dwarf Tigertail' is the most colorful of all bicolors. Needles are bright silver-blue on the undersides and green on top. It is an attractive, hardy dwarf conifer that forms a mound. Shape easily maintained by pruning upward growing shoots....
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