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Common name: Ageratum Description: 1. Height: 6-24 in. 2. Spacing: in. 3. Exposure: Part Sun 4. Foliage: oval to heart shaped and up to 4 in. long 5. Flowers in: Summer 6. Flower: blue, purple, lavender, pink, fuzzy clusters 7. Life Cycle: Summer Annual 8. Landscape Use: container arrangements, borders, edging, mass plantings
Common name: Ajuga, bugle weed Description: 1. Height: 6-9 in. 2. Spacing: 8-15 in. 3. Exposure: Part Sun to Shade 4. Foliage: glossy medium green, 3- 4 in. long, oval shaped leaves in tight rosettes 5. Flowers in: Early to Late Spring 6. Flower: blue-violet flowers in spring on 4-6 in. spikes 7. Life Cycle: evergreen perennial 8. Landscape Use: groundcover
Common name: Description: 1. Height: in. 2. Spacing: 1-3 ft. 3. Exposure: full sun to part shade 4. Foliage: basal 2-3 ternately compound leaves, sharply toothed leaflets 5. Flowers in: Early to Mid-Summer 6. Flower: tiny flowers densely packed into erect arching plume- like panicles, white, red, pink 7. Life Cycle: Perennial 8. Landscape Use: mass or group shade gardens, woodland gardens, borders
Common name: Begonia Description: 1. Height: in. 2. Spacing: 9-12 in. 3. Exposure: bright light, but not direct sunlight 4. Foliage: waxy leaves, 1.5 in. by 1.5 in., simple, alternate, serrated margins 5. Flowers in: Late Spring to Early Fall 6. Flower: flower clusters consisting of two small female flowers and one large showy male flower, in every color except blue 7. Life Cycle: Summer annual 8. Landscape Use: bedding plant, hanging baskets
Common name: Caladium Description: 1. Height: 1-2 ft. 2. Spacing: 12 in. 3. Exposure: Sun to part shade 4. Foliage: leaves alternate, simple, arrow-shaped, variegated with white between veins 5. Flowers in: Spring to Late Fall 6. Flower: spadix surrounded by a yellow-green spathe 7. Life Cycle: perennial bulb, annual 8. Landscape Use: Houseplant, interiorscape, landscape flower garden
Common name: Canna Description: 1. Height: in. 2. Spacing: 9-15 in. 3. Exposure: full sun 4. Foliage: large leaves, splashed with colors, tropical appearance, alternate, simple, undulate, in. 5. Flowers in: Early Summer to Fall 6. Flower: flowers red, pink, orange, yellow, variegated colors, in summer, asymmetrical, three petals, three sepals, three highly modified showy petal-like stamens 7. Life Cycle: perennial herb 8. Landscape Use: wet areas, masses, specimen, landscape beds
Common name: sedge, swamp grass Description: 1. Height: in. 2. Spacing: 1-2 ft. 3. Exposure: Sun to light shade 4. Foliage: narrow, glossy green leaves, some with white edges 5. Flowers in: Spring 6. Flower: Insignificant 7. Life Cycle: evergreen perennial 8. Landscape Use: borders, plant beds
REMEMBER: SEDGES HAVE EDGES!!!
Common name: vinca, Madagascar periwinkle Description: 1. Height: 6-18 in. 2. Spacing: 8-10 in. 3. Exposure: Sun to part shade 4. Foliage: leaves evergreen, opposite, entire 5. Flowers in: Spring to Fall 6. Flower: 5 spreading lobes, rose- pink, white, white with red eye 7. Life Cycle: annual 8. Landscape Use: containers, flower bed, groundcover
Common name: Dutch crocus Description: 1. Height: 4-6 in. 2. Spacing: 0-4 in. 3. Exposure: Full sun to PM or AM only sun 4. Foliage: Small, thin, green leaves 5. Flowers in: Early Spring 6. Flower: wine-glass shaped, 6 tepals, range of colors, mostly purple, white, yellow 7. Life Cycle: perennial bulb 8. Landscape Use: rock gardens, beds, ground covers
Common name: carnation, pink Description: 1. Height: 6-24 in. 2. Spacing: 6-12 in.. 3. Exposure: Full sun 4. Foliage: opposite, simple, linear, gray-green to blue-green 5. Flowers in: Late Spring to Early Summer 6. Flower: rose colored, pink, white 7. Life Cycle: perennial 8. Landscape Use: cut flowers, flower beds, containers
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