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A Unique Superbenia Verbena With Its Large Lilac Blue Flowers
The Large Lilac Blue Verbena Pedula Superbena puts on quite a show with it large lilac blue flowers. This type of Verbena is especially good in window boxes, balconies, as well as hanging baskets. It can also be used as a ground cover. It does require...
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For A Variegated Foliage Plant This Vinca Vine Fits The Bill
The Periwinkle Variegated Vinca Vine will add lots of interest to your garden or patio with its green leaves with white edges. It is a great filler for hanging baskets and great contrast against the bright colors of flowers. This vine has a trailing habit...
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Burgundy Is The Outstanding Color Of This Verbena Superbena!
This Burgundy Superbena Verbena has large flowers with an awesome burgundy color. It looks wonderful in hanging baskets, containers or pots and also in window boxes. It's upright trailing habit is also very beautiful as a ground cover. This burgundy...
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This Periwinkle is quite a gem!
The Wojos Gem Periwinkle is known for its spreading form and is fast growing. The foliage is creamy yellow edged in dark green. They are a new selection of trailing vinca. It is distinctly different from the Illumination vinca as it has larger leaves...
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Like Pink? This Catalina Pink Torenia Is Just What You Are Looking For!
The Catalina Pink Torenia is a very versatile for your garden. If you have a lot of shade or partial shade, this is one of the best plants for your area. The flowers look similar to a Snapdragon with shades of pink and a yellow spot which gives them extra...
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The Periwinkle Vinca Vine Is Finely Variegated
The Periwinkle Vinca Vine has variegated leaves that are green with white edging. This vine is a trailing vine and will not climb surfaces although you can grow over wires or other such things. It also is great for ground cover. The vine needs little...
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Mezoo Is A Red Sprawling Mounding Daisy
The Mezoo Livingstone Daisy Trailing Red is a wonderful ground cover which will really show off in your garden. It is a succulent that has green leaves that are edged in white. The bright red flowers are about dime size. They may be small but are powerful...
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Bunchberry Is Great Groundcover
If you want something beyond the normal groundcovers , the Bunchberry Cornus canadensis would be a great one to plant. Bunchberry leaves sprout at the top of the stem in fours and its petals will also sprout in fours. Its fruits are orange and grow in...
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Snow Fountains Weeping Flowering Cherry Strong & Weeping
Who would think that you could use the words "strong" and "weeping" in the same sentence to describe something. Well, now you have! The Snow Fountains Weeping Flowering Cherry Prunus Hybrid 'Snofozam' has a very strong weeping...
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Blue Moon Kentucky Wisteria Can Handle The COLD!
If you are looking for a great looking vine that is a vigorous grower and can take the cold all the way down to zone 3, this is the one for you. The Blue Moon Kentucky Wisteria Wisteria macrostachya 'Blue Moon' is known for its cold hardiness...
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Climbing Hydrangea Is Beautiful And Refined
The Climbing Hydrangea hydrangea anomala ssp. petiolaris is a deciduous vine that is often used to cover fences, walls, or even arbors. I have even seen it on a mail box post and curling around the mailbox itself. It can be used as a ground cover as well...
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Amethyst Falls American Wisteria Beautiful And Most Familiar
The Amethyst Falls American Wisteria Wisteria frutescens 'Amethyst Falls' ' is one of the best known Wisteria vines around. You will often find them delicately winding around mailboxes, lamp posts, fence posts, patio screens and the list goes...
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Chaparral Weeping Fruitless Mulberry - No Messy Fruits
This Chaparral Weeping Fruitless Mulberry Morus alba 'Chaparral' has a lot to offer. The first is that it is fruitless so you will not have to deal with mulberries all over your sidewalks and yard. It is a more "refined" tree from the...
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Elton Knight Coneflower Is Truly A Knight In Shining Armor
For a compact perennial, this is the perfect Coneflower for you. The Elton Knight Coneflower 'Echinacea purpura 'Elton Knight' is a very bushy plant that can hold up to just about anything. It has flowers covering each stem which makes it...
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Roll Out the Red Carpet for Sedum - Elizabeth Red Carpet
Sedum Spurium 'Elizabeth Red Carpet' is quite a sight to see. I am used to seeing Sedum used mainly in rock walls or rock gardens. It's a good plant for areas that most things don't like to grow in. It actually likes dry soil, full sun...
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