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Marcus Salvia

The Salvia `Marcus\’, Salvia nemorosa, is a new dwarf version of the Salvia `May Night\’. With its compact, dense habit of growing, it is easy to accommodate in any perennial garden. Spikes of intense violet-blue flowers bloom on top gray-green foliage and flower from June to October. `Marcus\’ has a plant height of 12\” and a spread of 12-18\”. It is hardy for container gardening, as a border plant and provides excellent cut flowers. Blooms look wonderful next to Sedum `Matrona\’, Achillea \’Coronation Gold\’ and Saliva `Snow Hill\’.

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Wheatgrass

The Wheatgrass, \’Friticum aestivum\’, is used to highlight beautiful pots, make tasty sprouts and it even produces healthy juice. Wheatgrass is the newest ornamental indoor plant craze. It may be hard to believe but beautiful in reality, the fresh, uniform green foliage in beautiful pots is a unique, stunning addition to any table setting or special occasions. You can harvest the Wheatgrass at about 7 inches in height and process for the juice. Grow them under florescent lights or in a very bright window or outside.

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Voodoo Abutilon

The Abutilon Voodoo, \’Abutilon hybrid\’, has handsome foliage and gorgeous blossoms. Abutilons are also commonly called Flowering Maples because of the shape of their leaves. This Albutilon is a Proven Selections plant. The Voodoo Abutilon diplays gorgeous blood red flowers. Abutilon have a bushy habit and out-facing Hibiscus-like flowers. These plants are also commonly known as Chinese Bellflower and Chinese Lantern. Abutilons are also often used as house plants.For zones 7-11, this plant can also be a perennial.

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Tassel Grape Hyacinth

The Grape Hyacinth \’Tassel\’, \’Armeniacum comosum\’, is a fall planted bulb. The Tassel grape hyacinth is the strangest looking Grape Hyacinth. Its flower stalk is up to 2 ft. tall with pale brown urn-shaped fertile flowers on the lower half, and blue flowers on the upper half. The cluster of flowers atop the stalk looks like a tassel. Grape Hyacinths are a hardy, no-care, mid spring flowering bulb. They are excellent as cut flowers, for rock gardens, beds, borders, and under trees and bushes. Try planting a large drift of Muscari armeniacum in your garden for a flowing effect.

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Charmant Geranium

The Geranium Charmant, \’Pelargonium x hortorum\’, was a Pennsylvania State 2003 Top Performer. The Charmant has very attractive large salmon flowers. Geraniums are a favorite bedding and container plant and are grown in almost every region of the country. These plants have succulent leaves and stems and they are commonly called garden geraniums or zonal geraniums. Fertilize lightly every 2 weeks. Pinching of the shoots will promote bushiness Remove spent flowers to enhance flowering.

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Bachelors Button Mountain Bluet

The Centaurea `Bachelor\’s Button\’, Centaurea montana, also know as Cornflower and Blue Bottle, has small thistle-like single flowers at the end of a delicate stem, being bright blue and very showy, with gray-green foliage. With a height of 24\” and a plant width of 12-24\”, it is an excellent late summer to early fall bloomer. Use Centaurea `Bachelor\’s Button\’ massed in border fronts, cottage gardens or naturalized areas. For planting with other perennials, try `Illumination\’ Vinca, `Variegated\’ Sedum or Echinacea `Purple Coneflower\’.

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White Guinea-hen flower

The Guinea-Hen Flower \’White\’, \’Fritillaria Meleagris\’, a fall planted bulb, produces dainty white bell-shaped flowers that are extraordinary textured, like a checkerboard. This species is native to Europe, where its bulbs usually grow in very moist locations. They are exquisite when naturalized with ferns or in tall grass, where they quickly form large colonies. If conditions are right, the bulbs are long-lived and multiply well. This plant is great for mass planting, containers, rock gardens, and borders. They are also deer, rabbit, and squirrel resistant.

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