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Name of plant
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Our rating
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Notes
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Aconitum - Monkshood
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***
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poisonous
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Achillea---yarrow
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***
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Choose good
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Aquilegia canadensis--columbine
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***
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Will seed themselves
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Allium-----chives
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***
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Edible by humans!
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Amsonia -Blue milkweed
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**
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Great fall color
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Anemone
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Arabis (Rock-cress)
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*
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Needs excellent drainage
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Artemesia----Wormwood
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**
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Silver foliage
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Aruncus ------Goatsbeard
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***
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Big bold perennial
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Ascelpias----Butterfly Weed
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*
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Aster
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*
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Astilbe ----
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*
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Needs shade/ moisture
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Baptisia---False Indigo
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***
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Easy to grow
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Boltonia asteroides--Boltonia
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*
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Buddleia davidii--Butterfly Bush
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***
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Centranthus
Valerian
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Chelone--Turtle Head
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*
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Chrysanthemum--Shasta Daisy
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Cimicifuga racemosa--Bugbane
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**
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Late flowers
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Coreopsis spp.
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***
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Dianthus spp.--Pinks
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***
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Low growing
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Dicentra
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***
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Dictamus albus-- Gas Plant
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**
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Don’t move
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Digitalis
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***
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Biennial
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Echinacea purpurea--Cone Flower
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Echinops--Globe Thistle
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***
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Eupatorium spp--Joe -Pye Weed
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**
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Big perennial
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Ferns
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***
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Excellent
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Filapendula spp. Queen of the Prairie
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*
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Spreads in woodland
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Gallium odorata
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**
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Geranium
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Geum spp.
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*
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Orange or yellow
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Helleborus—Hellebore
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*
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Herbs Mint,rosemary feverfew,oregano,
lemon balm, chives
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***
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Hesperis
Dames Rocket
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**
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Hibiscus
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*
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Homulus
Hops
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*
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Very aggressive
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Iris
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*
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Lamium
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***
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Great ground cover
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Lamiastrum
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***
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Lavandula spp--Lavender
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***
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Needs sunshine
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Liatris spicata--Spike Gayfeather
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*
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Limonium latifolium--Statice
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***
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Linum
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***
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Lupinus spp.—Lupines
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*
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Lychnis
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**
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Lysimachia
Loosestrife
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**
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Matteuccia--Ostrich Fern
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***
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Mitchella repens--PartridgeBerry
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*
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Monarda didyma—Beebalm
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***
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Spreads
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Myostis---Forget Me not
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***
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Narcissus---Daffodil
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**
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Nepeta spp.-- Catmint
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***
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Flowers all summer
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Oenothera spp. --Evening Primrose
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**
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Origanum spp--Oregano
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**
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Papaver orientalis--Poppy
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**
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Early summer flowers
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Peony
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***
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Perovskia
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***
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Late blooms
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Phalaris---Ribbon Grass
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***
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Polemonium caer.--Jacobs Ladder
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***
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Under used gem
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Pulmonaria--Lungwort
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Ranunculus spp. --Buttercup
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*
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Salvia
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Saponaria spp.—Soapwort
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*
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Sedums
Low varieties
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**
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Scilla spp--Scilla
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***
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Solidago spp. Golden Rod
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**
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Stachys byzantina---Lambs Ears
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**
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Tanecetum
tansy
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***
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Thalictrum
Meadow rue
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***
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Tiarella
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Trillium
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***
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Veronica
Speedwell
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Viola labrador
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***
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Yucca
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*
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Grasses
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***
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Great selection available
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Plant name
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Rating
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Notes:
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Acer
(Native maples red,
sugar)
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***
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Native varieties do very well in heavy
soils
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Aesculus spp.....Bottlebrush
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**
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Big bold shrubs
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Berberis
spp ....Barberry)
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**
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Picky – some good new varieties
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Buxus
microphylla
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***
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Winter Gem is my favorite
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Campsis
Radicans (Trumpetcreeper)
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*
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Mid summer flowers – big powerful
vine
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Calycanthus (Sweetshrub)
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*
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Likes partial shade
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Celastrus
Scandens (Bittersweet)
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**
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Native vine
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Clematis
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***
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Lots of brilliant varieties to choose
from
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Cotinus
(Smoketree)
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**
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Royal Purple has outstanding purple
foliage
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Cytisus .....
Scotch Broom
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***
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Early spring blooms
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Eleagnus
angustifolia... Russian Olive
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***
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Watch out for the thorns
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Forsythia
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**
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Fraxus
spp. . Ash
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***
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Hamamelis
(Witchhazel
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*
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Very early blooms
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Hedera Lelix
(English Ivy)
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*
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Hydrangea
P G
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***
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Old
fashioned flowers for the fall
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Ilex
glabra (Inkberry)
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*
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Ilex
opaca...... American Holly
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**
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Kalmia
(Mountain Laurel)
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*
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Ligustrum
(Privet)
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***
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Lindera
(Spicebush
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***
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Lonicera
(Honeysuckle) Shrub
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***
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Juniperus sp.......Many juniper
varieties
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*-***
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Depends on variety
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Lavandula ..... Lavender
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***
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Leucothoe
fontanesiana....Drooping
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*
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Mahonia
(Oregon Grape Holly
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**
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Myrica
(Bayberry)
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***
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Very good backdrop for perennials
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Nyssa
sylvatica
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***
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Tree with great fall color
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Pathenocissus
tricuspidata (Boston Ivy)
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**
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Parthenocissus
quinquefolia
Virginia creeper
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***
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Philadelphis
(Mockorange
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*
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Picea
pungens...Colorado Spruce
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***
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Never touched …all shapes
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Pieris
japonica (Andromeda)
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**
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Pieris
floribunda (Mountain Pieris
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**
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Polygonum
aubechii (Silver Lace Vine)
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*
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Potentilla
|
***
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Hardy and easy to grow…likes sunshine
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Pyracantha (Firethorn)
|
*
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Rhamnus spp....Seabuckthorn
|
*
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Robinia pseudoacacia........................Black
Locust
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***
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Frisia has bright golden leaves
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Spiraea
|
***
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Syringa
vulgaris. .French
Lilacs
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**
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Symphoricarpos
(Snowberry)
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**
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Viburnum
|
**
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Some varieties
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Weigela
|
*
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Some smashing new varieties
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Wisteria
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***
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