Astilbe x 'Younique™ 'Silvery Pink''
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Hypericum X 'Sunny Boulevard®'
Sunny Boulevard® St. John's Wort
Ilex verticillata ''Jim Dandy''
Jim Dandy Winterberry
Acer rubrum
Red Maple
Fast-growing with a pleasing oval shape, this outstanding specimen shade tree features deep green, trident foliage with gray green leaf backs. Tiny red flowers emerge in early spring to the delight of early native pollinators. Foliage puts o...
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Acer rubrum 'Autumn Flame'
Autumn Flame Red Maple
Incredibly easy to grow, 'Autumn Flame' is an outstanding looking tree with a clean summer look and blazing fall foliage color that make it a plant that should be used even more. This is one of the earliest flowering of all our native maples with its...
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Acer saccharum
Sugar Maple
Here's the tree that made New England famous! It's easy to see why this tree is so prized once you look at its broadly oval to round form and its thick but not impenetrable canopy of dark green, trident shaped leaves that provide medium shade from th...
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Acer saccharum 'Super Sweet'
Super Sweet Sugar Maple
This tree is a mass producer of super sweet maple making it perfect for producing syrup. In addition it provides nice summer shade and beautiful fall foliage.
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Acer spicatum
Mountain Maple
Mountain Maple is a small, multi-stemmed, deciduous understory tree or large shrub reaching 10–20'. Upright clusters of pale yellow-green flowers bloom in late spring. Soft, green, toothed leaves turn brilliant shades of yellow, orange, or r...
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Achillea millefolium
yarrow
Achillea millefolium, commonly known as yarrow, is a hardy perennial admired for its feathery, fern-like foliage and flat-topped clusters of tiny, bright white flowers. Blooms from late spring to early fall.Remarkably drought-tolerant once establi...
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Actaea rubra
red baneberry
Actaea rubra, commonly known as red baneberry, is a bushy perennial with short, thick stems reaching 1 to 3 feet in height. It features dense, rounded clusters of small white flowers that create a feathery appearance due to their prominent stamens...
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Agastache foeniculum
Anise Hyssop
Strongly upright growing with great foliage texture, this plant forms the perfect garden backdrop while still adding strongly anise-scented foliage and outstanding, stem ending terminal spikes of small lavender to purple flowers in mid to late sum...
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Allium cernuum
Wild Nodding Onion
Easy to identify by its distinctive, nodding, pastel lilac-pink flowers in late spring, Nodding Onion thrives in challenging sites such as hot sun and gravely soil. It is strikingly beautiful and is well-suited a formal or wild garden, as well as ...
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Alnus serrulata
Hazel Alder
Found naturally along streambanks and bogs, this smaller deciduous tree has smooth, gray-brown bark with alternating, wavy, hairy leaves. Slim, green male flowers and red female flower appear in the winter. Fruiting cones with woody scales (resemb...
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Amelanchier canadensis
Shadblow Serviceberry
This vigorous, multi-stemmed native is a true harbinger of spring in the northeast part of the country and one of the easiest, most rewarding landscape plants to grow. Its stems grow strongly upright producing an oval shaped plant that can be used ea...
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Amsonia tabernaemontana
Eastern Blue Star
A textural masterpiece, this selection features willow-like foliage lining stiff, mound forming stems that end with light blue, star-like flowers that bloom in late May. Perfect for moist, shadier spots, Bluestar attracts pollinators and lights up...
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Andropogon gerardii
Big Bluestem
Big Bluestem is a clumping, strongly upright growing grass that makes a great tall backdrop in any perennial landscape. It's breathtaking in mass plantings, with its thin foliaged texture and its striking orange to red fall color. Strong rooting a...
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Andropogon gerardii 'Red October'
Red October Big Bluestem
'Red October' is a show stopper with year round beauty. The foliage emerges in spring with reddish highlights. In summer the foliage is a lush, deep green. Burgundy red flowers bloom in August while the foliage takes on a purple red hue. The first...
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Andropogon virginicus
Broomsedge
Beautiful, easy to grow, warm-season grass, so versatile it will grow almost anywhere. Lovely planted in large sweeps mixed with native wildflowers like milkweed, black-eyed Susan and iron weed. In autumn, the grass turns a warm reddish-brown colo...
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Anemone canadensis
Canadian Amenone, Windflower
This native charmer is not found in the garden much but is a stand out in the wild as it colonizes moist areas along bodies of water or stream banks in semi-shaded areas. Just because it's uncommon in the home landscape doesn't mean it shouldn't be t...
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Anemone virginiana
tall thimbleweed
Perfect for a wooded garden, this selection yields masses of 1”, star-shaped, white flowers with a thimble-like mound of green stamens in April & May. Blooms perch atop upright stems clothed in deeply cut, dark-gre...
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Aquilegia canadensis
Wild Columbine
Red flowers with yellow centers hang like drifts of softly illuminated lanterns in April and May. Excellent as a shady rock garden naturalizer, it also is quite content in average garden conditions. Occurs naturally in rich ...
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Aquilegia canadensis 'Little Lanterns'
Little Lanterns Wild Columbine
This power packed little gem looks too small to produce the abundance of flowers it does from April to June but seeing is believing as wave after wave of brilliant red backed, yellow corolla flowers cover this plant for weeks on end. These flowers ha...
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Arctostaphylos uva-ursi 'Massachusetts'
Massachusetts common bearberry
This beautiful looking native groundcover has an incredibly refined look for a plant that revels in poor, dry, infertile soils. 'Massachusetts' is a nearly prostrate grower with small, lustrous, deep green evergreen foliage that hugs the branches,...
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Aristolochia macrophylla
Dutchman's Pipe
This vine is an old-fashioned favorite grown for its large heart-shaped, glossy green leaves which can quickly cover porches and arbors. The name comes from the flowers resemblance to Dutch smoking pipes. This is the larval host plant for the blue an...
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Aronia arbutifolia Brilliantissima
Brilliantissima Red Chokeberry
An underused native stunner, this narrow, upright growing shrub is ideal for grouping in sandy or moist soils and will perform like a champ with landscape interest throughout the season. Foliage emerges dark green and shiny and provides a great backd...
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Aronia melanocarpa Iroquois Beauty™
Iroquois Beauty™ Black Chokeberry
Easy to grow Iroquois Beauty™ is a introduction from the Morton Arboretum and was selected for its unique compact habit. 10 year old plants have slowly colonized to 5' wide and 3' tall. Showy white flowers bloom in May and are followed by da...
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Aruncus dioicus
Goats Beard
The foliage resembles that of Astilbe, topped by dense spikes of cream-colored flowers. Makes for a background of even a specimen plant. Blooms from June through till July.
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