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Latin Name:
Allium cyathophorum var. farreri
Type:
Perennial
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This dainty but hardy species has deep reddish-purple bell-shaped flowers that hang one-sided on pendulous umbels.
Latin Name:
Allium cernuum
Common Name:
Nodding Onion
Type:
Perennial
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Adorable nodding clusters of rose colored flowers that always remind me of fireworks.
Latin Name:
Allium Govanianum
Type:
Perennial
This species has aromatic leaves that are used medicianlly in the Himalayas. It has white star-shaped flowers with 1" - 2" heads.
Latin Name:
Allium obliquum
Common Name:
Twisted Leaf Garlic
Type:
Perennial
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Large, acid yellow globes from June-July. A most unique color that is great with blues. Purple drumstick alliums are common but this is the only one whose 1.5" umbels are yellow. Tolerates heavy soils and summer moisture. Z 4.
Latin Name:
Allium senescens ssp montanum v glaucum
Type:
Perennial
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Lilac purple 2" flower balls that bloom in June. Dull green, strap like foliage. Likes a sunny, well drained location.
Latin Name:
Althea officinalis
Common Name:
Marshmallow
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Soft pink 1" wide flowers in clusters up the stems of velvety, grey-green lobed leaves.
Latin Name:
Amsonia tabernaemontana
Common Name:
Willow Blue Star
Type:
Perennial
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This low maintenance plant has beautiful pale true blue flowers in the spring. Leaves turn a beautiful yellow color during the Fall season and have a wonderful airy look. Choice plant for two seasons in your garden.
Latin Name:
Anemone mulifida
Type:
Perennial
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A widely appearing native plant with deeply divided leaves and dainty white or cream flowers. Zone 2.
Latin Name:
Anemone sylvestris 'Madonna'
Type:
Perennial
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Fragrant, slightly nodding 2" white flowers with yellow stamens. cover the 12-18 inch plants in late spring-and will often rebloom in late summer or fall. The flowers are followed by interesting cottony seed heads. Winter hardy to zone 4.
Latin Name:
Antirrhinum
Common Name:
Snapdragon Magic Carpet Mix
Type:
Annual
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Adorable miniature snapdragon with a good mix of colors. Zone 1 - 10
Latin Name:
Antirrhinum majus 'Sawyer's Mix'
Common Name:
Snapdragons 'Sawyer's Mix'
Type:
Half Hardy Perennial
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A hardy strain of old-fashioned snap dragons in a colorful mix. This variety is reported to have been developed from plants found growing on an old farm in Suffolk.
Latin Name:
Antirrhinum Tetra
Common Name:
Snapdragon Tetra Ruffle Mix
Type:
Annual
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This is a tetraploid variety with large ruffled flowers in a full range of colors. Very vigorous growing.
Latin Name:
Aquilegia 'Crystal Star'
Common Name:
Columbine 'Crystal Star'
Type:
Perennial
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This is a lovely long spurred white variety. The seed for this plant is quite scarce. Zone 3-9
Latin Name:
Aquilegia 'Mrs. Scott Elliot's'
Common Name:
Columbine 'Mrs. Scott Elliot's'
Type:
Perennial
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This choice columbine is one of the longest growing old heirloom varieties. Flowers are large, long-spurred in mixed colors with a white corolla. Lacy fern-like blue-green foliage. EASY!
Latin Name:
Aquilegia flab. pumila Kurilensis 'Rosea'
Common Name:
Columbine Pink flabellata
Type:
Perennial
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Very thick, blue green foliage, the round leaf segments being fan-shaped and overlapping. Flowers are pink with short white spurs. An unusual variety.
Latin Name:
Aquilegia flabellata nana
Common Name:
Columbine flabellata nana
Type:
Perennial
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A vigorous and long-lived miniature variety with blue-green foliage with large fan-shaped overlapping leaves. Blue or blue and white flowers.
Latin Name:
Aquilegia viridiflora
Type:
Perennial
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This unique columbine has an unusual deep purpley chocolate brown bonnet contrasted by bright yellow-green anthers. It is also sweetly fragrant.
Latin Name:
Campanula cochlearifolia
Type:
Perennial
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This campanula variety has dainty sky blue flowers on short wiry stems blooming through the summer. Spreads gradually by underground stems. Requires filtered shade all day, or morning sun and afternoon shade. Zones 4-9.
Latin Name:
Cerinthe major purpurascens
Common Name:
Honeywort
Type:
Half Hardy Annual
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This variety has blue-green leaves with spots appearing as the plant matures. The flowers are purple with blue leaf like bracts that cluster around them. Bees love this variety.
Latin Name:
Cerinthe minor
Common Name:
Honeywort 'Bouquet Gold'
Type:
Half Hardy Annual
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This unusal variety has lime-green leaves with with white spots appearing as the plant matures. The flowers are a cheery yellow that bloom in clusters.
Latin Name:
Codonopsis clematidea
Common Name:
Bonnet Bellflower
Type:
Perennial
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Hardy herbaceous twining climber. Beginning in summer has beautiful nodding, large bell shaped pale blue flowers with a striking interior of a yellow center surrounded by purple or blue iolet rings. A wonderful twiner to grow through small shrubs. Up to 5' tall and eventually forms a clumps 15" wide. Hardy to Zone 7-9.
Latin Name:
Codonopsis ovata
Type:
Perennial
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This variety of codonopsis has large pale blue bell flowers in abundance on this climbing plant for sun or light shade. Easy care and hardy in Z 5 - 8.
Latin Name:
Codonopsis ussuriensis
Type:
Perennial
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Unusual perennial climbers grown for their profuse small bell-shaped blooms. Easy to grow. Z 5 - 8.
Latin Name:
Coleus 'Superfine'
Type:
Annual
Latin Name:
Dianthus superbus
Type:
Evergreen Perennial
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This exceptional dianthus has pale green foliage topped by fragrant deeply fringed pale lavender flowers in spring and again in fall.
Latin Name:
Dierama pulcherrium
Common Name:
Angel's Fishing Rod
Type:
Perennial
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Unusual, clump-forming plants with grassy foliage and graceful deep pink drooping funnel shaped flowers which hang loosely on arching stems. Easy care plant hardy in Z 7 - 9.
Latin Name:
Dodecatheon pulchellum
Common Name:
Shooting Star
Type:
Perennial
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This lovely Washington native has clusters of pink flowers shaped like shooting stars. One of the prairie's most spectacular wildflowers. Can handle clay soil. Identified by Lewis & Clark in 1806. Hardy to Z 3 - 8.
Latin Name:
Erigeron karvinskianus
Common Name:
Spanish Daisy
Type:
Perennial
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Small daisy type pink and white flowers with a long blooming season. Very easy care and drought tolerant.
Latin Name:
Filipendula vulgaris
Type:
Perennial
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Unique perennial with decorative fern like foliage and sweetly fragrant white plums. Though all filipendulas like moist soil, this variety can handle it drier also. Easy care plant hardy Z 3-9.
Latin Name:
Geum chiloense 'Mrs. Bradshaw
Type:
Perennial
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Long blooming semi-double bright red flowers on wiry stems over bushy clumps of green foliage. Appreciates fertile, well-drained, evenly moist soil but is drought tolerant once established. Excellent cut flowers.
Latin Name:
Geum rivale
Common Name:
Water avens
Type:
Perennial
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Beautiful nodding pale pink flowers on deep pink sepals. A Washington native this plant is classified "sensitive" on the endangered species list.
Latin Name:
Heuchera americana 'Dale's Strain'
Type:
Perennial
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This unusual plant has intricately marbled and veined foliage and bears small, creamy flowers in Summer. A nice edging plant for the shade. Rich, loamy soil is best. Shade Avg.-Moist Soil Perennial
Latin Name:
Heuchera pulchella
Type:
Perennial
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This variety is among the loveliest of Western species. Baby pink, bell-flowers are fringed burgundy on burgundy stems. The tiny & neat clusterd foliage turns a beautiful red in the Fall.
Latin Name:
Heuchera villosa
Type:
Perennial
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Colorful foliage ranges in color from green to purple. Showy white flowers in late summer. Easy care plant for shade gardens.
Latin Name:
Hierochloe odorata
Common Name:
Sweet Grass
Type:
Perennial
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Sweetly vanilla scented grass with graceful brownish panicles in the summer. This is the source of the well-known sweet grass braids used as sacred incense by North American Indians.
Latin Name:
Iris cristata
Common Name:
Dwarf Crested Iris
Type:
Perennial
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Latin Name:
Iris enstata mixed
Common Name:
Japanese Iris
Type:
Perennial
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Japanese Iris are found in the wild growing in damp meadows. Large 4" - 12" elegant flowers in a mix of colors. Very hardy. They prefer constant moisture during the growing season, well-drained soil in winter.
Latin Name:
Iris laevigata
Type:
Perennial
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This is a true aquatic Iris requiring a wet site the entire year. Although if kept in a moist spot they can be grown gardens. Flowers are rich blue, purples and whites with dappled pattern.
Latin Name:
Iris laevigata alba
Type:
Perennial
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This is a true aquatic Iris requiring a wet site the entire year. Although if kept in a moist spot they can be grown gardens. These have white flowers. .
Latin Name:
Iris laevigata blue
Type:
Perennial
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This is a true aquatic Iris requiring a wet site the entire year. Although if kept in a moist spot they can be grown gardens. Flowers are rich blue with dappled pattern.
Latin Name:
Iris setosa pale pink
Type:
Perennial
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This setosa variety has lovely pale pink flowers.
Latin Name:
Iris siberica 'At the Ballet'
Type:
Perennial
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Easy care plant can handle a range of environments. Beautiful cut flowers.
Latin Name:
Iris versicolor
Type:
Perennial
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Wide variety of blue coloration in flowers. Easy care good cut flower.
Latin Name:
Iris virginica
Type:
Perennial
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Hardy easy care plant. If grown on a pond's edge it's graceful leaves reach 3ft but the flower stems can grow to 6ft. If grown away from a boggy site it will thrive but not get as big. Color varies including white, reddish violets, and blue-violets.
Latin Name:
Nicotiana langsdorffii 'Cream Splash[
Type:
Tender Perennial
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A strikingly elegant plant. It has a basal rosette with large dark green leaves splashed with cream. The 2" apple green flowers are thin tubes with spreading, five lobed mouths. The flowers open in the evening, but, in shade, will open in daylight, too.
Latin Name:
Nicotiana Tabacum variegatum
Common Name:
Variegated Tobacco
Type:
Tender Perennial
Rare unique tobacco with a showy cream splash on the leaves and pink flowers. A very stunning and unusal plant. This variety is grown for it's striking foliage as it's pink flowers are not fragant. Zone 9 - 10
Latin Name:
Oxypetalum caeruleum
Common Name:
Heavenly Blue
Type:
Tender Perennial
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This twining vine has intense aquamarine star shaped flowers with dark blue centers and arrow shaped leaves. This plant is fairly drought tolerant and will do well under an eave.
Latin Name:
Penstemon
Common Name:
Penstemon White Pink Picotee
Type:
Perennial
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Showy white bell shaped flowers with beautiful pink edges. Hummingbirds love them. Most varieties are fairly drought tolerant.
Latin Name:
Penstemon heterophyllus 'Electric Blue'
Common Name:
Penstemon 'Electric Blue'
Type:
Perennial
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Multiple stems with branched spikes of intense blue, tubular flowers. First year flowering perennial. Plants are also more frost and wind tolerant. Grows in clumps from fibrous roots.
Latin Name:
Penstemon palmeri
Common Name:
Palmer's Penstemon
Type:
Perennial
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This is a spectacular Penstemon with very showy, large pink flowers that are fragrant. The foliage is grayish. Fairly easy to grow, it loves hot & dry and good drainage, though its said to tolerate clay quite well. Needs NO SUMMER WATER ONCE ESTABLISHED. It is loved by bumblebees.
Latin Name:
Penstemon serrulatus
Common Name:
Cascade Penstemon
Type:
Perennial
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Beautiful purple blue flowers with serrated leaves. This unusal variety prefers moist to wet conditions and is found growing in the wild near stream or river banks. Cascade Penstemon is found to the west of the Cascade Mountain crest from southern Alaska through British columbia and Washington to northwest Oregon. Zone 3 - 9.
Latin Name:
Penstemon serrulatus albus
Common Name:
Cascade Penstemon White
Type:
Perennial
This rare variety has white flowers. This is a penstemon that prefers moist to wet conditions and is found growing in the wild near stream or river banks. Cascade Penstemon is found to the west of the Cascade Mountain crest from southern Alaska through British columbia and Washington to northwest Oregon. Zone 3 - 9.
Latin Name:
Phlomis cashmeriana
Common Name:
Cashmere Sage
Type:
Perennial
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Whorls of showy lavender-pink flowers make beautiful cut flowers. Also makes a good dried flower with attractive seed heads. Easy care plant. Z 5-8.
Latin Name:
Polygonum bistorta 'Superba'
Type:
Perennial
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Unusual 2" - 3" spikes of pale pink fuzzy fleece like flowers with broad oval medium size leaves. Easy care for a wide range of environments. Good cut flower.
Latin Name:
Primula alpicola
Type:
Perennial
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Fragrant flowers are clusters of bell-shaped blossoms on stems that rise above the foliage. Leaves are deep green and either oval or lance shaped. Colors range in yellow, white and purple. Zone 6 - 8
Latin Name:
Primula alpicola 'Luna'
Type:
Perennial
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Fragrant pale yellow bell-shaped flowers bloom on stems that rise above the foliage. Leaves are deep green and either oval or lance shaped. Zones 6-8.
Latin Name:
Primula ansidora
Type:
Perennial
This unusual primrose has fragrant sweet anise scented leaves. This variety crosses readily with p. helodoxa. It sends up tall spikes of small dark burgundy flowers in the spring. The flowers are tiered in small clusters up the stalk. This is a very hardy evergreen primrose.
Latin Name:
Primula capitata
Type:
Perennial
A very unusual looking primrose. The flowers emerge in summer in a tight cluster at the top of a 12 stem. They are a beautiful dark purple with a white dusting of meal.
Latin Name:
Primula cortusoides
Type:
Perennial
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Several dozen pink flowers displayed in umbels above a rosette leaves. Leaves are a light, yellow-green color and somewhat heart shaped and ruffled. Blooms for a very long time.
Latin Name:
Primula denticulata
Common Name:
Drumstick Primrose
Type:
Perennial
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Dense, almost round flower heads made up of individual toothed flowers. Flowers can be white, blue or rose. Wonderful for spring color.
Latin Name:
Primula elatior
Type:
Perennial
Latin Name:
Primula elatior
Common Name:
Oxslip
Type:
Perennial
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This woodland primrose has beautiful light yellow bell-shaped nodding flowers in clusters above light green foliage. This adorable plant was a favorite in English cottage gardens in the 1500's.
Latin Name:
Primula florindae
Common Name:
Primrose Florindae
Type:
Perennial
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This is a large primrose variety. It has nutmeg scented, very fragrant yellow bell-shaped nodding flowers in larger clusters which bloom over a long period in the summer.
Latin Name:
Primula florindae 'Red Strains'
Type:
Perennial
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A wonderful Primrose is sweetly fragrant. Abundant flower heads in shades of orange to red hang in clusters at the end of long stalks. A very useful Primula since it is so late to bloom often right into summer. Large lush clump forming foliage needs space and moisture.
Latin Name:
Primula juliae
Type:
Perennial
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A dwarf deciduous perennial with profuse amaranth red small blooms resting on the surface which can bloom for up to 3 months. Very hardy, has a moderate creeping habit. Plant 12 apart.
Latin Name:
Primula luteola
Type:
Perennial
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This distinctive primrose has showy sunny yellow flowers held in drooping clusters. Apple green foliage at the base of the foliage sets of the brilliant flowers.
Latin Name:
Primula polyneura
Type:
Perennial
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This beautiful clump forming primrose has flowers that vary from pale pink to dark magenta. Flowers are held on stalks above the striking foliage. Similiar in look to P. cortusoides but with thicker foliage.
Latin Name:
Primula secundiflora
Type:
Perennial
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An evergreen Primrose with oblong, toothed, fuzzy velvet green leaves which bear pendant, funnel or bell shaped, deep red or deep pink flowers.
Latin Name:
Primula sieboldii
Type:
Perennial
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Lovely light green scalloped leaves with fringed flowers in colors that range from white to pink to lavender. Goes dormant in the heat of summer. Zone 4
Latin Name:
Primula sikkimensis
Type:
Perennial
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Lovely primrose with fragrant pale yellow nodding bell flowers. This species does best in very moist soil. Very hardy.
Latin Name:
Primula sinopurpurea
Type:
Perennial
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Beautiful rich lavender-blue star flowers. The blooms are slightly drooping, and borne in one or two tiers atop 12 stems. Rosette forming leaves deciduous in late Summer and Fall, they return in Winter and bloom in Spring. VERY FRAGRANT
Latin Name:
Primula veris red
Common Name:
Cowslip (red)
Type:
Perennial
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This historical plant is becoming rare in it's native region. This variety is a natural hybrid of delightful red and white umbels which hang in clusters above the base rosette of leaves. Mildly fragrant. A good naturalizer.
Latin Name:
Salpiglosis sinuata 'Emperor Mix'
Common Name:
Painted Tongue 'Royale Mix'
Type:
Annual
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Beautiful large funnel-shaped blooms in hues of blue, yellow, violet, purple, and rose with contrasting veining. The flowers have a velvety sheen to them. Makes an outstanding cut flower.
Latin Name:
Salpiglossis 'Kew Blue'
Common Name:
Painted Tongue
Type:
Annual
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Beautiful large funnel-shaped blooms in velvety blue with contrasting dark burgundy veining. This particular variety is grown in the Gardens at Kew.
Latin Name:
Salvia superba
Type:
Perennial
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Hardy easy care plant with beautiful long spikes of blue-purple flowers. Z 5 - 8.
Latin Name:
Specularia speculum veneris
Common Name:
Venus Looking Glass
Type:
Hardy Annual
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Very showy bright violet blue 1" flowers which bloom profusely. Widly popular in the 17th Century. Legend has it that Venus one day lost her magic mirror, in chich everything appreared beautiful. It was found by a shepherd, who, entranced by his reflection, was reluctant to give it back. Cupid, sent to fetch it, struck it from the shepherd's hand and it was shattered to pieces, each one becoming a flower.
Latin Name:
Tagetes patula 'Moonlight'
Common Name:
Moonlight Marigold
Type:
Annual
This plant is of the single bloom variety known as French marigolds, with pale yellow lacey flowers. Wonderful in a moon garden.
Latin Name:
Thalictrum dasycarpum
Common Name:
Purple Meadow Rue
Type:
Perennial
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Beautiful foliage resembling columbing with purplish stems. Airy foot long clusters of purplish flowers.
Latin Name:
Thalictrum Rochebrunianum
Common Name:
Meadow Rue
Type:
Perennial
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This choice variety has clusters of light purple buds opening to violet-purple flowers with purple stamens. Larger flowers than most Meadow Rue it is also one of the hardiest.
Latin Name:
Tiarella 'Chocolate Mint'
Common Name:
Foam Flower 'Chocolate Mint'
Type:
Perennial
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Unusually long maple-shaped leaves are mint green with a chocolate overlay. Toffee-tinted flowers in early spring. Nice bronzing in winter.
Latin Name:
Tiarella 'Cygnet'
Common Name:
Foam Flower 'Cygnet'
Type:
Perennial
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Leaves like a swan in flight inspired the name of this Tiarella. Profuse fragrant pink flowers in early spring. Prefers rich moist well drained soil.
Latin Name:
Tiarella 'Dark Eyes'
Common Name:
Foam Flower 'Dark Eyes'
Type:
Perennial
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This spreading plant is compact with tailored foliage. Each leaf is marked with a heavy blotch of black in summer through winter. This semi-runner is a rebloomer in Oregon. Bronze tones in winter. Zone 4-9
Latin Name:
Tiarella 'Dunvegan'
Common Name:
Foam Flower 'Dunvegan'
Type:
Perennial
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Here is a clump forming Foamflower with very unusual and attractive foliage. The leaves are deeply dissected resembling oak leaves. They are soft green and slightly hairy. Flowers are pink tinted. Use this compact form for its textural value. Zone 3-8
Latin Name:
Trachelium caeruleum 'Black Knight'
Common Name:
Blue Lace Flower 'Black Knight'
Type:
Half Hardy Perennial
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This variety has rich dark heliotrope-violet flowers. It's large blossoms over an exteneded time ar a valuable addition to your garden.
Latin Name:
Tropaeolum majus 'Alaska Salmon Orange'
Common Name:
Nasturtium 'Alaska Salmon Orange'
Type:
Annual
Latin Name:
Tropaeolum majus 'Moonlight'
Common Name:
Nasturtium 'Moonlight'
Type:
Annual
Latin Name:
Verbascum atroviolaceum
Type:
Biennial
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A wiry stemmed cousin to V. phoeniceum with very thick rosettes of wrinkly, dark green leaves and deep violet purple flowers through the summer months. Tolerates a wide spectrum of soil and exposure types, although this variety does best in light shade.
Latin Name:
Verbascum phoeniceum
Type:
Perennial
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Wiry stemmed with very thick rosettes of wrinkly, dark green leaves. Flowers are a mix of white, pink, slamon and purple which bloom thour the summer months. Tolerates a wide spectrum of soil and exposures althugh this variety does best in light shade.
Latin Name:
Verbascum phoeniceum 'White Bride'
Type:
Perennial
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An unusual verbascum variety with pure white flowers on slender spikes rising above rosettes of foliage. Easy care drought tolerant plant hardy to Z5.
