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Aster Boltonia decurrens 'Snowbank'
Common Names: False Aster
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Boltonia decurrens 'Snowbank' Boltonias provide pleasing rounded forms in the garden with summer aster-like flowers. They are easy to grow as longas they are planted in full sun in reasonably amended garden soil.Boltonias are known and loved for their masses of small white flowers in late summer and early fall.
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Aster novae-angliae ''
Common Names: New England Wood Aster
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The New England Wood Aster's flower is purple and has a yellow center. It can grow to 2-5 feet. The leaves are alternate. The leaves are rough but they do not have rough edges. It blooms in September and October. It can live in wetness, in prairies, swales, and other moist habitats. Indians used the New England Aster to make tea, and they believed ....(cont.)
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Aster tartaricus 'Jin Dai'
Common Names: Aster
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Aster tartaricus 'Jin Dai' We have had this aster in our garden for six years and it continues to surprise us each Fall with its bright violet flowers. Throughout the Spring and Summer we tend to forget it is even there when suddenly bright violet flowers with yellow centers appear.
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Cosmos bipinnatus ''
Common Names: Cosmos, Mexican Aster
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Tender annual roduces masses of colorful blooms on a bushy 2 foot plant from midsummer until frost. It has fine feathery foliage, its pinnate leaves growing to 10 inches in length. Seeds are sown directly outdoors. Some varieties grow to 10 feet, however most grow to 1-2 feet. Easy to grow in dry and infertile soils. Deadheading will prolong flow....(cont.)
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Cotoneaster apiculatus ''
Common Names: Cotoneaster
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Glossy green leaves turn to bronzy-red in autumn making the Cranberry Cotoneaster an effective landscape plant. Red berries covering plant from summer into winter attract birds.
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Physocarpus opulifolius 'Diabloi'
Common Names: Eastern Ninebark
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Physocarpus opulifolius 'Diabloi' is an extremely hardy deciduous shrub with an upright spreading habit and decorative pealing bark. Showy pinkish white combs bloom May through June. A plant with interesting purple foliage in summer followed by red fruit in autumn, . Plant in full or part sun.
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Pinus strobus 'Eastern White Pine'
Common Names: Pine
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Eastern White Pine is an excellent ornamental conifer and is also an important timber species. When well established, it has a rapid growth rate when young with long distances between the annual lateral branches. Its form is somewhat pyramidal when young and becomes broad with age. The 3-5 inches long needles found in bundles of five are thin and s....(cont.)
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Tsuga canadensis 'Eastern Hemlock or Canada Hemlock'
Common Names: Hemlock
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Eastern hemlock is a graceful pyramid shaped evergreen conifer. Young trees have a slender pointed top shoot that droops and waves in the breeze. Older trees have an irregular rounded crown. The bark is cinnamon-brown with deep ridges. The flat needles are about a half inch long and arranged in two horizontal ranks on the slender spreading to droop....(cont.)
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