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A Case For Cotinus.

Posted in attractive bark, Butterfly Attracting plants, Colorful foliage, Drought Tolerant, Mass Plantings, Shrub/Tree, Specimens, tagged autumn color, burgundy leaves, C.otinus coggygria 'Ancot', charteuse leaves, Cotinus 'Grace', Cotinus 'Notcutt's Variety', Cotinus 'Royal Purple', Cotinus coggygria, Cotinus coggygria 'Golden Spirit, Cotinus coggygria 'Velvet Cloak', Cotinus coggygria var. szechuanensis, Cotinus obovatus, Cotinus. szechuanensis, Cotinus.coggygria 'Foliis Purpureis, Cotinusa 'Grace', Edward Scissorhands, July blooming, June blooming, May blooming, plum colored leaves, purple leaves, red leaves, Smoke Bush, Venetian Sumac, wine colored leaves, yellow leaves on June 27, 2011 | 1 Comment »

At this time of the year I really become aware to the color of foliage in various plant in the landscape. Plants are still fairly fresh and their foliage is alive and vibrant with color. Colors other than greens stand out in ways that often fade as the season goes on. It is unusual to [...]

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The Baron and the Little Flower.

Posted in Butterfly Attracting plants, Drought Tolerant, groundcovers, Mass Plantings, North American Plants, Ocean exposure Tolerant, Perennials, South American Plants, tagged April blooming flowers, August blooming, August Blooming Flowers, August flowers, Baron Wilhelm Friedrich Karwinski von Karvin, Baron Wilhelm Friedrich von Karvin Karvinski, Bony Tip Fleabane, Erigeron, Erigeron karvinskianus, Erigeron karvinskianus 'Moerheimii', Erigeron karvinskianus 'Profusion', Erigeron karvinskianus 'Snowdrift', Erigeron moerheimii, Fleabane, Government House, July blooming, July Blooming Flowers, July flowers, June Blooming Flowers, June flowers, Latin American Daisy, March blooming, May Blooming Flowers, Mexican Daisy, October blooming, pink flowers, Santa Barbara Daisy, September blooming, September blooming flowers, September flowers, Spanish Daisy, white flowers on June 20, 2011 | 1 Comment »

I was listening to the local radio yesterday as I went about my business about town, they were interviewing a local vegetable grower who said crops are 5 to 6 weeks behind where they normally are at this time of year. I knew the season was behind although it seems to me that plants catch [...]

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Silver, Gold and Moonshine All in One Plant.

Posted in Butterfly Attracting plants, Colorful foliage, Cut Flowers., Drought Tolerant, Mass Plantings, Ocean exposure Tolerant, Perennials, Specimens, tagged Achillea 'Moonshine', Alan Bloom, August blooming, August flowers, Blooms of Bressingham, Brentwood Bay, Bressingham Gardens, fragrant flowers, Government House, grey foliage, Grey leaves, July blooming, July flowers, June blooming, June flowers, May Blooming Flowers, Moonshine Achillea, Moonshine Yarrow, silver foliage, siver leaves, sulphur flowers, yellow flowers on June 13, 2011 | 3 Comments »

This time of the year usually is warmer and the Roses would be in full bloom, I guess I will have to wait a bit more. In the meantime I am reminded that there are so many other plants which are now stealing the show and some of them do it in a way which [...]

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Out of the Purple Haze and into the White:

Posted in Butterfly Attracting plants, Colorful foliage, Cut Flowers., Mass Plantings, Perennials, Specimens, tagged April blooming flowers, attractive seed heads, attractive seedheads, attrative foliage, Common Meadow Rue, delicate leaves, fern-like foliage, fern-like leaves, interesting foliage, Mauve Flowers, May Blooming Flowers, pink flowers, purple flowers, Thalictrum aqilegifolium 'album', Thalictrum aquilegifolium, white flowers on June 6, 2011 | 1 Comment »

As a child I spent many days in the woods near our house in town and at the lake, there my interest in plants was awakened. Many of the plants I encountered there I have not found in the area I live now. Other plants I see may be related to the forms I grew [...]

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