Plant List
Caesalpinia gillesii
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Common Name: Yellow Bird of Paradise
Bloom Season: Summer
Bloom Color: Yellow/Red
Ideal Sun Conditions: Full Sun Mature Height: 60"
Mature Width: 60"
Description:
Good shrub, small tree for hummingbirds. Reseeds readily. Nuisance in flower beds due to reseeding. It tends to come up in the middle of other plants and is difficult to remove due to its deep tap root. Okay surrounded by grass. Little water. |
Calamagrostis brachytricha
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Common Name: Diamond Grass
Bloom Season: Fall
Bloom Color: White
Ideal Sun Conditions: Full Sun Mature Height: 42"
Mature Width: 30"
Description:
GREAT PLAINS GRASS of 2007. Fine textured-rosy seed head in Sept. looks great in fall. Medium to wet soils in full sun. Clay ok. |
Calamagrostis x acutiflora 'AVALANCHE'
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Common Name: Feather Reed Grass 'Avalanche'
Ideal Sun Conditions: Full Sun Mature Height: 48"
Mature Width: 24"
Description:
Basically a variegated form of Karl Foerster. Appreciates light afternoon shade. Form tan clumps in winter. |
Calamagrostis x acutiflora 'Karl Foerster'
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Common Name: Karl Foerster Feather Reed Grass
Ideal Sun Conditions: Full Sun Mature Height: 48"
Mature Width: 30"
Description:
3-4 'HIGH 2-3'WIDE Sterile grass- won't reseed, Does well in medium to wet soils. Clay is o.k. Do not allow to dry out. Garden Notes: Cut clumps to ground in late winter, just before new growth. Divide every few years when center begins to die out.
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Callirhoe involucrata
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Click on image below to see additional images  Common Name: Wine Cup
Bloom Season: Spring
Bloom Color: Red
Ideal Sun Conditions: Full Sun Mature Height: 6"
Mature Width: 48"
Description:
Well drained soil is best, give plenty of room, will do well in a hot, exposed bed. Reseeds in flower beds. Nice magenta blooms. |
Calylophus berlanderia
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Common Name: Sundrops
Ideal Sun Conditions: Full Sun Description:
Landscape sub-shrub |
Calylophus hartwegii
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Click on image below to see additional images  Common Name: Hartweg's Sundrops
Bloom Season: Spring to Summer
Bloom Color: Yellow
Ideal Sun Conditions: Full Sun Mature Height: 18"
Mature Width: 24"
Description:
Blooms are square and yellow. Long bloom season. Reseeds itself nicely for new plants. Durable and reliable. |
Calylophus hartwegii fendleri
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Common Name: Fendler's Sundrops
Bloom Season: Summer
Bloom Color: Yellow
Ideal Sun Conditions: Full Sun Mature Height: 18"
Mature Width: 24"
Description:
Native, Blooms heavily in spring, then occasionally through summer. Reseeds itself nicely for new plants. Durable and reliable. |
Calylophus lavendulaefolius
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Common Name: Sundrops
Bloom Season: Summer
Bloom Color: Yellow
Ideal Sun Conditions: Full Sun Mature Height: 8"
Mature Width: 18"
Description:
Long blooming, Dense, grey-green plant. Reseeds itself nicely for new plants. Durable and reliable. |
Calylophus serrulatus
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Click on image below to see additional images  Common Name: Toothed Sundrops
Bloom Season: Summer
Bloom Color: Yellow
Ideal Sun Conditions: Full Sun Mature Height: 18"
Mature Width: 18"
Description:
Subshrub,Blooms heavily in spring then lightly throughout summer. Smaller, mounded plant with narrow leaves. |
Calylophus tubicula
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Common Name: Texas Sundrops
Bloom Season: Summer
Bloom Color: Yellow
Ideal Sun Conditions: Full Sun Mature Height: 9"
Mature Width: 12"
Description:
Dense herbaceous shrublets of wiry stems bearing yellow flowers with very long tubes- like serrulatus on steroids. Garden Notes: Plant in warm winter area.
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Campanula glomerata 'Alba'
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Common Name: Alba
Bloom Season: Spring-Summer
Bloom Color: White
Ideal Sun Conditions: Full Sun Part-Shade Mature Height: 18"
Mature Width: 18"
Description:
Upright with erect branches, Flowers are narrow, 1" bells. TRIAL FOR 2010 |
Campanula glomerata 'Superba'
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Common Name: Superba
Bloom Season: Spring to Summer
Bloom Color: Violet/Blue
Ideal Sun Conditions: Full Sun Part-Shade Mature Height: 18"
Mature Width: 18"
Description:
Upright with erect branches, Flowers are narrow, 1" bells. TRIAL FOR 2010. |
Campanula persicifolia
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Common Name: Takion Series Blue
Bloom Color: Blue
Ideal Sun Conditions: Full Sun Part-Shade Mature Height: 18"
Mature Width: 18"
Description:
F1 hybrid. Extra large flowers, heat tolerance. |
Campanula rotundifolia 'Olympica'
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Click on image below to see additional images  Common Name: Bluebells
Bloom Season: Summer
Bloom Color: Blue
Ideal Sun Conditions: Part-Shade Mature Height: 8"
Mature Width: 12"
Description:
Long blooming, dainty flowers on wiry stems above foliage - rock gardens, borders. Garden Notes: Somewhat variable from seed. Some plants will be a upright while others form a lower growing mat of evergreen. Very nice with deep blue blooms.
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Caryopteris x clandonensis
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Click on image below to see additional images  Common Name: Blue Mist Spirea
Bloom Season: Late Summer
Bloom Color: Blue-Purple
Ideal Sun Conditions: Full Sun Part-Shade Mature Height: 30"
Mature Width: 36"
Description:
Nice small shrub. Considerable drought tolerance, long bloom period. Cut back to 1/3 its height in spring to encourage heaviest bloom. Garden Notes: Somewhat short-lived shrub. Can die for no apparent reason. Very long bloom season and neat appearance until that time makes it a shrub worth growing.
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Caryopteris x clandonensis 'Longwood Blue'
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Click on image below to see additional images  Common Name: Blue Mist Spirea 'Longwood Blue'
Bloom Season: Late Summer
Bloom Color: Blue
Ideal Sun Conditions: Full Sun Part-Shade Mature Height: 30"
Mature Width: 36"
Description:
Choice, deepest violet-blue selection, plants with silvery foliage. Great late summer color. |
Catananche coerulea
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Common Name: Cupid's Dart
Bloom Season: Summer to Fall
Bloom Color: Blue
Ideal Sun Conditions: Full Sun Mature Height: 24"
Mature Width: 18"
Description:
Sturdy, Free Flowering, Drought Resistant, Humus-Rich Soil |
Celtis reticulata
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Common Name: Netleaf Hackberry
Ideal Sun Conditions: Full Sun Mature Height: 20 feet
Mature Width: 15 feet
Description:
Native tree, birds love seed, gets a gall that deminIshes looks. Will reseed itself in garden from bird droppings. Garden Notes: Hackberry is a very tough native tree. It is gangly looking when young. Keep pruning up branches for tree. Not the most refined looking tree, but it is a good selection for outlying areas.
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Centranthus ruber alba
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Click on image below to see additional images  Common Name: White Jupiter's Beard
Bloom Season: All Summer
Bloom Color: White
Ideal Sun Conditions: Full Sun Part-Shade Mature Height: 24"
Mature Width: 36"
Description:
Adaptable plant with showy white flowers. Reseeds, but easy to remove when young. Long bloom season. |
Centranthus ruber coccineus
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Click on image below to see additional images  Common Name: Red Jupiter's Beard
Bloom Season: All Summer
Bloom Color: Red
Ideal Sun Conditions: Full Sun Part-Shade Mature Height: 24"
Mature Width: 36"
Description:
Adaptable plant with showy red flowers. Reseeds, but easy to remove when young. Long bloom season. Garden Notes: Nice deep green leaves. It does very well in full sun to part shade.
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Cerastium tomentosum columnae 'Silver Carpet'
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Click on image below to see additional images  Common Name: Snow in Summer
Bloom Season: Spring
Bloom Color: White
Ideal Sun Conditions: Part-Shade Mature Height: 8"
Mature Width: 36"
Description:
Groundcover, silver foliage, white flowers early spring. May spread a foot per year, low front border. Garden Notes: Makes a very good ground cover for a small area. Dense gray-white leaves keep weeds from growing through.
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Ceratoides lanata
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Click on image below to see additional images  Common Name: Winterfat
Bloom Season: Winter
Ideal Sun Conditions: Full Sun Mature Height: 24"
Mature Width: 26"
Description:
Shrub. Wooly-white seedheads in winter. Dried flower Garden Notes: Listed as a forage plant for deer,rabbits etc in winter. Mine has never been nibbled on. Not particularly showy, but it is extremely tough. Good for a small addition to a native bed.
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Ceratostigma plumbaginoides
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Click on image below to see additional images  Common Name: Blue Plumbago
Bloom Season: Summer to Fall
Bloom Color: Blue
Ideal Sun Conditions: Full Sun Part-Shade Mature Height: 10"
Mature Width: Groundcover
Description:
Good groundcover spreads by rhizomes.Long bloom season with dark blue flowers. Red foliage in fall. Garden Notes: Keep a border (sidewalk) around this plant to keep in place. Slow to leaf out in spring, sometimes dies to ground by winters, but usually provides hint of red through winter.
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Cercocarpus montanus var. argentus
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Common Name: Mountian Mahogany
Ideal Sun Conditions: Full Sun Mature Height: 6-20 feet
Mature Width: 8 feet
Description:
Deciduous shrub. Slow growing, russet colored leaves in fall, plumed tails on seed, deer browse. Garden Notes: My plants are making a nice, upright four foot shrub after five years. Extremely hardy, dependable.
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