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Nyssa sylvatica (TUPELO/BLACK GUM)

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Hardiness zones 3-9 A wonderful and adaptable tree to 30-60' that is much loved by honeybees. With a stately rounded habit and horizontal branching, this wonderful eastern native is found primarily...

Picea pungens (BLUE SPRUCE)

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Hardiness zones 2-7, 8 This popular specimen tree is a blue spruce from seed that has been collected from the Apache National forest in Arizona, where the trees tend to be more blue than green. The...

Physocarpus opulifolius 'Summer Wine' (NINEBARK)

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Hardiness zones 3-8 Dark-wine, fine-textured foliage highlighted by pink-white early summer flowers and a more compact (to 5-6') habit recommend this fine border or foundation shrub highly. S/M (not...

Nepeta 'Picture Purrfect' (LOW-GROWING CATMINT)

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Hardiness zones 3-8 Broad-spreading and compact, 'Picture Purrfect' is low-maintenance, beautiful and aromatic. Its periwinkle-purple flowers are larger than typical and when temperatures are...

Physocarpus opulifolius 'Ginger Wine' (NINEBARK)

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Hardiness zones 3-8 Outstanding burgundy-red foliage on this fine upright (to 6') shrub really glow in the summer sun, bright white spring flowers become decorative red seedheads for added interest...

Nepeta faassenii 'Walkers Low' (LOW CATMINT)

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Hardiness zones 3-8 This is a beautiful plant with a confusing name! The 'Low' is for a place in England not the plants growth habit. This is a wonderfully versatile drought-tolerant perennial...

Pinus ponderosa (PONDEROSA PINE)

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Hardiness zones 3-8 The attractive and long-lived Ponderosa Pine is native to the western United States and Canada. Featuring long, dark-green needles bundled in threes and handsome, scaly, plated,...

Pinus jeffreyi (JEFFREY PINE)

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Hardiness zones 4-8 This pyramidal, tall tree 80-120' native to SW Oregon to Baja has short, spreading, sometimes pendulous branches, striking platy cinnamon bark and long gray-green needles, this...

HALL'S HONEYSUCKLE VINE Lonicera japonica (Halliana)

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Deliciously fragrant, ivory-colored summer flowers make this vigorous vine delightful as a fast-growing groundcover or screen. S-PSh/M Zone 4

Perovskia atriplicifolia 'Blue Jean Baby' (COMPACT RUSSIAN SAGE)

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This is compact Russian sage at 2-3ft tall and 3ft wide, with strong stems and lavender-blue blooms beginning in mid-summer and smoky purple calyxes which hold their color well into fall. Its...

Malus fusca (PACIFIC CRABAPPLE)

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Hardiness zones 4-8 A thicket-forming shrub or small tree with thorny spur branches, this native crab has attractive spring flowers followed by small red-yellow apples. Would make a good bonsai! S/M 

Pinus aristata (COLORADO BRISTLECONE)

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Hardiness zones 3-8 This very slow-growing, little pine 8-20' of the wind-torn high-elevation mountain tops of the Rocky Mountains in Colorado and New Mexico is perhaps one of the prettiest of the...

Monarda didyma 'Sugar Buzz® Rockin Raspberry' (BEE BALM)

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Hardiness zones 4-8 Clumps of vigorous, well-branched stems hold large, deep raspberry-purple blooms for weeks, from mid to late summer, attracting pollinators of all types. The fragrant, deep-green...

Monarda 'Sugar Buzz® Grape Gumball' (BEE BALM)

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Hardiness zones 4-9 The vibrant magenta blooms of this compact hybrid form a bright dome on strong, well-branched stems, over its dark-green, fragrant foliage, in mid-late summer. A striking choice...

Iris chrysographes (BLACK IRIS)

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Hardiness zones 4-9 Flowers of dark, velvety violet with sharply contrasting markings of golden yellow ("chryso"=yellow, "graphes"=markings) on 2 foot stalks make this Chinese iris a pretty addition...

Picea engelmannii 'Hoodie' (DWARF ENGELMANN SPRUCE)

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This cute little Engelmann spruce is a sight with its brilliant steely-blue, long, pointy needles. A dwarf tree which starts out with a somewhat uneven and rambling form before finding its resolve...

Physostegia virginiana 'Crown of Snow' (WHITE OBEDIENT FLOWER)

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Hardiness zones 3-9 The star of the family is the pure-white form... the cool white flowers make a welcome note in hot weather. Earlier blooming, less of a spreader, to 2', and dazzling! S/M-W

Panicum virgatum 'Red Flame' (RED SWITCH GRASS)

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Hardiness zones 4-9 The foliage on this colorful switch grass emerges blue-green, and by the end of summer each leaf is saturated in wine-red. Its late summer flowers are also in hues of red. This is...

Monarda 'Sugar Buzz® Blue Moon' (BEE BALM)

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Hardiness zones 4-8 This compact hybrid fills out its space in the garden nicely, yet without aggression. It is covered in lavender-blue blooms, with purple bracts, in mid-late summer, attracting...

Helleborus Winter Jewels® 'Peppermint Ice' (HELLEBORE)

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Hardiness zones 4-9 The large, fully double, lotus-like, picotee flowers on this beauty are light pink with deep pink edges and reddish veins on its undersides. These impressive, nodding blooms stand...

Variegated Hosta "Pocket of Sunshine"

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Hardiness zones 3-9 The distinctly cupped and corrugated leaves of this cute little Hosta start out with chartreuse centers in the spring, which become brighter yellow as summer approaches, with...

Malus sargentii (SARGENT CRABAPPLE)

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A delightful dwarf crabapple from Japan grown for its unique broad, shrub habit becoming a 6-8'bush with no central leader; covered with masses of white flowers on alternate years, which are followed...

Helleborus Winter Jewels® 'Ruby Wine' (HELLEBORE)

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Hardiness zones 4-9 Burgundy wine red, velvety,single flowers with dramatically contrasting white stamens bloom from late winter into spring. Dark green, leathery foliage is 12-14 inches tall, while...

Lobelia cardinalis 'Fried Green Tomatoes' (CARDINAL FLOWER)

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The brilliant red flowers on sturdy 3' stalks of this eastern wildflower will draw every eye, as well as every hummer and butterfly for miles!, a great solution for a border or damp spot in sun or...