No flopping allowed with this summer-to-fall gem
Name:‘Red Riding Hood’ Anemone (Anemone‘Red Riding Hood’)
Zones:5–9
Size:18 to 24 inches grandiloquent and wide
condition : Full sun to partial shade ; moist , well - debilitate soil
Native range : crossbreed
We ’ve seen a series of new , compendious anemones reach glasshouse shelves lately , and this one appear to be just as lovely as the rest . ‘ Red Riding Hood ’ sport many dark pink , cuplike rosiness on sturdy stems beginning in summer and rifle into fall . Once the flowers go to seed , they turn into fluffy white balls , adding yet another interesting look .
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Everything you ever wanted, in one plant
Name:‘Petit Henri’ ragged robin (Lychnis flos-cuculi* ‘Petit Henri’)
Zones:5–7
condition : Full sun to fond ghost ; well - debilitate soil
aboriginal range : Europe
Why , oh why , do n’t more multitude mature ragged robin ? It ’s a exceedingly tough works , tolerating lean soils and period of drought . It starts blooming in midspring and continue the show into fall . And , possibly good of all , it ’s cervid test copy . ‘ Petit Henri ’ is another amazing choice , with clear blank blooms indorse by burgundy stems . Plant one — you wo n’t regret it .
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An underreported fact about ragged redbreast is its evergreen status . In late free fall , do n’t contract back the tuft of dark fleeceable blades . This patch of foliage will continue intact throughout the colder months , even when it ’s buried in coke . In spring , plainly cut down it down to the terra firma . fresh emergence will emerge quickly .
They fixed what made sedum boring
Name:‘Boogie Woogie’ sedum (Sedum‘Boogie Woogie’)
Zones:3–9
Size:8 inches magniloquent and 18 in all-embracing
condition : Full sun ; well - run out ground
Yes , sedums are tough - as - nail , drouth - resistant works . And yes , they have long - endure blooms that bee adore . But the foliage has never been all that exciting . The diversification on ‘ Boogie Woogie ’ , however , makes us want to get up and dance . In case you ’re worried that this trait might impact the lustiness ( we were concerned , as well ) , this plant has persisted through two New England time of year here at Fine Gardening , with vanish colors .
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A novel color for an evergreen treasure
Name:‘Caramel’ epimedium (Epimedium‘Caramel’)
Zones:5–8
Size:12 inches improbable and 18 inches wide
Conditions : Partial to full wraith ; well - enfeeble land
This epimedium has what all Epimedium have : drought tolerance , disease and deer resistance , and the power to adhere around all year . What ’s different about ‘ Caramel ’ is the unique prime colouration . Some report it as chicken with a ruddy - dark-brown plaza ; some say it resembles a mochachino more in chromaticity . However you describe it , it ’s still stunning . This guy tend to have more blossoms in former outpouring as well .
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Give your shade a punch of color with this beauty
Name:‘Peach Tea’ heucherella (Heucherella‘Peach Tea’)
Zones:4–9
Conditions : fond to full shade ; moist , well - drained dirt
Heucherellas incline to be more vigorous than heucheras and more compendious than tiarellas — basically establish you the best of both genera . ‘ Peach Tea ’ carries on that tradition and add a new color visibility . The declamatory lobed leaf are a pinkrust color and set up the stage for late springtime , white bottlebrush flower . The color is a fresh hue , not often find in the shade , but we can suppose it look divine when paired with a Nipponese paint fern .
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Nope, it’s not a lobelia—it’s better
Name:Quartz®Red penstemon (Penstemon‘Balquared’)
Zones:6–9
Size:2 feet tall and across-the-board
Conditions : Full sun ; moist , well - drain soil
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If you ’ve always wanted to farm the moisture - loving red lobelia but have drier term with more Sunday , this is your golden twenty-four hour period . Quartz ® Red genus Penstemon brings a fresh color to the penstemon world , with it ’s garnet - hue flush . The prospicient , tubular flowers show up all summertime long , much to the delight of hummingbirds , and the lush green foliage is highly mildew resistant .
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It’s a textural—and colorful—wonder for shade
Name:‘Crested Surf’ painted fern (Athyrium niponicum‘Crested Surf’)
Size:20 to 22 inches grandiloquent and 28 to 30 inches wide
Native range : Eastern Asia
colouring material , texture , shade tolerance — what ’s not to love ? ‘ Crested Surf ’ is a new breed of paint fern , with intense royal - Ag - green fronds that disport adorable tassels at the tips . It really does take care like a harvest of baby fern dangle off the ends . This is another plant life that theFGstaff got to experiment with for a season , and despite our best efforts to kill it , it hang in . If that ’s not a merchandising point , we do n’t know what is .
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A geum that’s long-bloomed and space conscious
Name:Tempo™ Rose geum (Geum‘TNGEUTR’)
Size:20 inches improbable and 12 inches broad
Conditions : fond shade ; moist , well - run out soil
Native range : Japan
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Geums are another group of perennials that merit more love . Their one draw back had been a sometimes rangy use , but new offer such as Tempo ™ Rose are cute and summary . The salmon , red - concentrate on blossoms seem in midspring and last for several weeks . And the fuzzed foliage makes Tempo ™ Rose quite cervid tolerant .
The supersized version of a classic favorite
Name:‘Jack of Diamonds’ brunnera (Brunnera macrophylla‘Jack of Diamonds’)
Size:16 inch tall and 32 inches all-inclusive
aboriginal range : Eastern Europe and Northwestern Asia
Most shade gardener are familiar with the sensational ‘ Jack Frost ’ brunnera . Now meet its gargantuan brother . The leaf of ‘ Jack of Diamonds ’ are closely 10 inches across . This provides a larger stagecoach for the beautiful silver medal and blue - green mottling to do its matter . Each folio is a bit more rounded than the original ‘ Jack Frost ’ too , which makes this interpretation even more unique .
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Interesting foliage sets this guy apart
Name:‘Rock Star’ sedum (Sedum‘Rock Star’)
Zones:4–8
Size:10 to 12 in tall and 2 foot wide
Conditions : Full sun;well - drained soil
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Again , sedum foliage can be a second tedious . While some breeders have try diversification to work out this drawback , others have concenter on tweak the leaf shape . ‘ Rock Star ’ has distinctly pointed leaves with deep notch up and down the edges . This gives the plant an interesting grain from afar . The blooms are also a darker pink than we ’re used to seeing from sedum .
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Sturdiness accompanies these sexy blooms
Name:‘Blacksmith’ lupine (Lupinus polyphyllus‘Blacksmith’)
Size:36 inches improbable and 25 to 30 inches wide
Native mountain chain : Western North America
The only thing that could spoil the majesty of a lupin flower is when it flop over and breaks right at its point . That ’s not an upshot with ‘ Blacksmith ’ , which is part of the Westcountry Series , be intimate for strong - stemmed motley . bee will enjoy this plant ’s singular bicolor rosiness almost as much as you do .
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All we can say is WOW!
Name:‘Weaver’s Pink’ hardy orchid (Bletilla‘Weaver’s Pink’)
Zones:7–10
Size:40 inch tall and 24 column inch wide
Although it looks exotic , this is a plant that many in the United States can grow . When we first read about this hardy orchid , we were excited at the thought of how much impingement it would have in a border . matured clumps can sport many , multistem flower branches that start to unfurl in midspring and continue flower through summertime . If you thought a perennial could never be a focal - point plant , ‘ Weaver ’s pinkish ’ hardy orchidaceous plant blows that possibility to bits .
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An elegant addition to the canna family
Name:‘White Tiger’ canna (Canna‘White Tiger’)
Size:36 inches marvelous and wide
Conditions : Full sun;moist , well - run out territory
We let in it — cannas can be cheap . The ones with motley farewell tend to have offensively hued flower , and the ones with more subtle flush have tire green leafage . This is a petite canna that we know for both the flowers and the foliation . The white diversification is perfectly echoed by the finespun , creamy lily-white blooms .
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