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However some may find the plant to be too tall for normal gardens. It prefers sandy, well-drained soil and full sun. The leaves can vary from a bright green to a bluish-green in color.

* A small variety with deeply cut red leaves. * The crimson fall color is stunning.

* A sprawling plant unless staked, perhaps best for romping through a semi-wild border; small blue flowers in considerable numbers in midsummer; full sun or part shade, persistent once established; native to China.

Leaves typically form a thick, slowly-spreading clump of foliage to 12" tall. * Foliage turns purplish-bronze in winter. * Also commonly called pig squeak because of the noise produced by rubbing a leaf between thumb and finger.

* Papaver orientale ( Oriental poppy ) is a perennial flowering plant native to the Caucasus, northeastern Turkey, and northern Iran. * The familiar large-flowered poppy with 3-6" flowers, usually red but sometimes orange or pale pink; foliage dies back...

* A vigorous plant, spreading by subterranean suckers and forming thickets. * Spiraea tomentosa , commonly known as the Steeplebush , is a plant similar in characteristic to the Hardhack ( S.

* Many people perceive Joe Pye weed to be nothing more than a roadside weed and have never seriously considered its outstanding ornamental attributes. It includes all the purple flowering North American species of the genus Eupatorium as traditionally...

* The red anthocyanin constituent of the flowers is used as a litmus. They are useful in the treatment of chest complaints. * A refreshing tea is made from the flower petals. * The flowers are demulcent, diuretic and emollient.

It is a herbaceous annual or perennial twining liana growing to 2-4 m tall. Seed used by Aztecs as a hallucinogen. * Ipomoea tricolor is a species of morning glory native to the New World tropics , and widely cultivated and naturalised elsewhere.

* A vigorous plant, spreading by subterranean suckers and forming thickets. * Spiraea tomentosa , commonly known as the Steeplebush , is a plant similar in characteristic to the Hardhack ( S.

* Spiraea japonica was introduced in North America as an ornamental landscape plant and first cultivated in the northeastern states around 1870. Japonica has been used as traditional medicine by native people, and extracts from the plants were found to...

* Sarracenia flava , the Yellow pitcher plant , is a carnivorous plant in the family Sarraceniaceae . Plants require continuously moist conditions in a loose compost of sphagnum peat, live sphagnum and coarse acid sand.

Excellent for attracting birds and butterflies. Native to moist prairies and sedge meadows. * Liatris spicata , the dense blazing star or prairie gay feather , is an herbaceous perennial plant native throughout most of eastern North America .

* Lacy leaves of a deep red in the spring but foliage color fades to light green in early summer. Japanese Maple produces magnificent fall color and is very hardy and flexible branches making it an ideal specimen for bonsai.

The hirsute leaves are of variable morphology, but commonly found as deltoidal in form and sometimes having up to three lobes. An infusion of the dried stalks has been used in the treatment of inflammation of the bladder.

* Good tree for striking yellow late summer flowers in upright clusters as large as 2' x 1 1/2'; seed "pods" pinkish, very attractive, good for dried arrangements; bipinnate leaves; upright habit; flowers when young; needs sun; native to China.

Common names include, Turk's Cap Lily , Turban Lily , Swamp lily or American Tiger Lily . Used like potatoes or as a thickener in soups. * Lilium superbum is a species of true lily native to the eastern and central regions of North America .

It grows in woods and marshy areas. * The seeds provide food for birds. The inflorescence is a panicle with up to 6 branches. * Paspalum floridanum is a species of grass known by the common name Florida paspalum.

It is smaller in size than the Giant Hogweed ( Heracleum mantegazzianum ). It is an umbelliferous plant, in the same group as fennel, cow parsley, elder and giant hogweed. The plant is little used in modern herbalism but has been employed in the treatment...

Acaulis (L.) Hill) is a species of Primula native to western and southern Europe (from the Faroe Islands and Norway south to Portugal , and east to Germany, Ukraine , the Crimea , and the Balkans ), northwest Africa ( Algeria ), and southwest Asia ( Turkey...

* In spring, the plant produces small, bright red flowers with 5-fold symmetry. The red petals are long and strap-like, and dangle over the umbrella-like style of the flower, which is held upside down at the end of a 50 cm long scape.

* The whole plant is very poisonous, even one seed has been known to be lethal to children. * Castor seed is the source of castor oil, which has a wide variety of uses. * A horticultural annual grown for it big palmate (roundish) leaves, up to 3' wide;...

* Flat or bell-shaped 1 1/2" flowers in clusters of 5-7, rose, in spring before leaves; of upright habit; deciduous, with red fall color; native to North Carolina, where it grows in moist acid soil.

* Succisa pratensis Moench, also known as Devil's-bit Scabious, is a flowering plant of the genus Succisa in the family Dipsacaceae . * An herbaceous perennial, forming a basal rosette to 1', from which arise 3' flowering stems with purplish blue (rarely...

Good pest resistance and low maintenance make these plants invaluable assets in the garden and landscape. Provide a well-drained acid soil in a mostly to partly sunny location for the best results.

Leaves typically form a thick, slowly-spreading clump of foliage to 12" tall. * Foliage turns purplish-bronze in winter. * Also commonly called pig squeak because of the noise produced by rubbing a leaf between thumb and finger.

* Mirabilis jalapa (The four o'clock flower or marvel of Peru ) is the most commonly grown ornamental species of Mirabilis , and is available in a range of colours. * Very fragrant trumpet-shaped flowers, 1-2" red, pink, yellow, white, or variously mottled...