Picea Omorika 'Nana'
This Serbian spruce cultivar is a densely-branched, slow-growing, dwarf evergreen tree with a globose to broad conical form. Slow-growing form (3-6" per year) that typically grows 4-8' tall (infrequently to 10') over time. Scaly, dark brown bark. ... [... more]
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Kniphofia 'Border Ballet'
‘Border Ballet’ is a red-hot poker seed strain that features a variety of flower colors including orange, red, pink, yellow and creamy pastels. It is a compact, upright, clump-forming perennial that typically grows to 24” tall. From a basal tuft ... [... more]
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Amsonia Ciliata
Amsonia ciliata is a clump-forming perennial that is native from North Carolina to Florida west to Missouri, Arkansas and Texas. It is generally found in sandy soils. It typically grows to 2-3’ tall. Terminal clusters of star-like, light blue ... [... more]
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Tsuga Canadensis 'Gentsch White'
This Canadian or eastern hemlock cultivar is a globose, dwarf, evergreen conifer which typically grows to 3-4' tall and 4' wide. Needles at the branch tips are silver white, thus giving this shrub the appearance of being covered with snow. Inner ... [... more]
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Platycodon Grandiflorus 'Sentimental Blue'
This balloon flower cultivar is a dwarf selection that typically grows to only 6-12" tall. Features unique, puffy flower buds shaped like hot air balloons which open into 3" diameter, single, blue, upward-facing, bell-shaped flowers with five .. ... [... more]
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Picea Abies 'Little Gem'
This Norway spruce cultivar is a dwarf needled evergreen shrub which has a dense, flat, globose, bun or cushion-like habit. New growth needles are light green, turning to a glossy, dark green with age. Typically grows slowly (3" per year) to 12" ... [... more]
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Ratibida Pinnata
This gray headed coneflower is a Missouri native plant which typically occurs in dry woods, prairies and along railroad tracks and roads. A somewhat rough-looking plant that features pinnately divided leaves (to 5" long) on stiff stems growing ... [... more]
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Comptonia Peregrina
Sweetfern is an upright, deciduous shrub (typically growing 2-4' tall) which features simple, narrow, lustrous, pinnatifid, deeply notched, olive to dark green leaves (to 4" long). Foliage is aromatic and resembles that of ferns, hence the common ... [... more]
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Sambucus Nigra 'Eva' Black Lace
BLACK LACE is a cultivar of European elderberry. It is particularly noted for its deeply cut dark purple foliage, its lemon-scented, pink flowers and its dark blackish-red elderberries. It is a large, upright, deciduous shrub that typically ... [... more]
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Ratibida Columnifera
Long-headed coneflower or prairie coneflower is an erect, hairy, clump-forming plant that typically grows to 1-3’ tall. It ranges from Alberta to Minnesota south to Arkansas, New Mexico and Mexico. It is most common on the Great Plains. In ... [... more]
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Actinidia Kolomikta
This kiwi is a relatively fast-growing, deciduous, woody vine which typically grows 15-20' and features tiny, slightly fragrant, greenish-white flowers in early summer and attractive, heart-shaped (to 5" long), green foliage variegated with white ... [... more]
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Caladium Bicolor
Best grown in moist, fertile, humusy, organically rich, acidic soils in part shade or filtered sun. Does well in bright shade. Avoid direct sun where leaves will scorch. Tubers may be left in the ground year-round in USDA Zones 8-10. In St. ... [... more]
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