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Evergold grass (Carex oshimensis ‘Evergold’, also sold as Carex hachijoensis ‘Evergold’) is one of the most cheerful and dependable ornamental sedges you can plant, bringing a bright, luminous quality to shaded and semi-shaded garden spaces that can otherwise feel dark and difficult to furnish with interesting plants. Its arching, fountain-like tufts of narrow leaves are…
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Evergreen huckleberry (Vaccinium ovatum) is one of the Pacific Northwest’s most treasured native shrubs, a plant that earns its place in the garden through a remarkable combination of ornamental beauty, ecological value, and genuine culinary reward. It’s the kind of plant that seems almost too good to be true: glossy, deep green foliage that holds…
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Fire and Ice hosta (Hosta ‘Fire and Ice’) is one of the most visually arresting hostas in cultivation, a plant that commands immediate attention in the shade garden through a color combination that feels almost impossibly bold for a foliage plant. Each broad, heart-shaped leaf reverses the expected color arrangement of its parent variety, ‘Patriot’,…
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Firepower nandina (Nandina domestica ‘Firepower’) is a compact, brilliantly colored evergreen shrub that earns its name honestly. While many nandinas are grown primarily for their elegant foliage and graceful habit, Firepower turns the color dial up considerably, producing lime-green and soft chartreuse foliage through spring and summer that transitions to some of the most vivid…
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Firewitch dianthus (Dianthus gratianopolitanus ‘Feuerhexe’, sold in English-speaking markets as ‘Firewitch’) is a compact, floriferous perennial that combines some of the most saturated color available in the spring garden with a toughness and adaptability that makes it genuinely easy to grow. Its small but intensely vivid magenta-pink flowers, produced in extraordinary profusion above a low…
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Flock of Flamingo penstemon (Penstemon ‘Flock of Flamingo’) is a cheerful, floriferous perennial that brings an irresistibly soft color palette to the sunny border, producing a generous profusion of tubular flowers in warm flamingo-pink tones that attract hummingbirds, native bees, and butterflies with reliable enthusiasm throughout its long bloom season. Where many penstemons lean toward…
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Fragrance hosta (Hosta ‘Fragrance’) is a perennial that reminds gardeners why the hosta family deserves more credit than it typically receives for its flowers. While most hostas are grown almost exclusively for their foliage, and their flowers are regarded as pleasant but unremarkable, Fragrance hosta upends that expectation with intensely fragrant white blooms that fill…
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Frostproof gardenia (Gardenia jasminoides ‘Frostproof’) is a cultivar that makes one of the most beloved and intoxicatingly fragrant flowering shrubs in the world accessible to gardeners who might otherwise assume gardenias are simply too tender for their climate. Named for its improved cold hardiness relative to standard gardenia cultivars, Frostproof delivers the full gardenia experience,…
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Ginkgo biloba is one of the most extraordinary trees on earth, and not merely in a horticultural sense. It’s a living fossil, the sole surviving member of a plant division that flourished alongside the dinosaurs and once spread across much of the northern hemisphere. The species has remained essentially unchanged for more than 200 million…
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Glowing Embers hydrangea (Hydrangea paniculata ‘Glowing Embers’) is a panicle hydrangea that earns its evocative name through one of the most dramatic seasonal color progressions available in any flowering shrub. The large, cone-shaped flower clusters emerge creamy white in midsummer, as panicle hydrangeas typically do, but what sets Glowing Embers apart is what happens next.…