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FlowersGreat Design Plant: Towering Colewort Adds Playful Drama
Supersize your garden focal point with colewort's voluminous cloud of white flowers on stalks up to 7 feet tall
Full StoryGardening for ButterfliesGreat Design Plant: Red Bird-of-Paradise Soars With Color
Fiery bursts of red-orange flowers bring hot summer gardens to life, while this shrub's drought tolerance keeps the living easy
Full StoryGardening for ButterfliesGreat Design Plant: Thunder and Lightning for Midsummer Garden Color
Get over the mouthful of a name; focus on the dramatic foliage and gorgeous magenta flowers of Thunder and Lightning field scabious
Full StoryLandscape DesignGreat Design Plant: Paint the Summer Landscape With Desert Willow
If the vibrant flowers of this Southwestern native tree don't blow you away, the hummingbirds, fire resistance and low maintenance will
Full StoryFlowersGreat Design Plant: Bush Anemone
Breathe in this shrub's sweet perfume while you're admiring its petite white flowers and the butterflies it brings
Full StoryGardening GuidesGreat Design Plant: Partridge Feather
Set your garden aloft with the silvery-white color of partridge feather's foliage even as this evergreen's tough nature keeps you grounded
Full StoryGardening GuidesGreat Design Plant: New Zealand Tea Tree
Balance pretty polish and ruggedness in a temperate garden with this low-maintenance and drought-tolerant flowering shrub
Full StoryGardening for ButterfliesGreat Design Plant: Ceanothus
Try these springtime stars for a bolt of blue, especially where you've got a dry spot in the garden
Full StoryGardening GuidesLet Lilac Love Flower This Spring
Whatever you bestow or receive for Mother's Day, lilacs can be an unmatched gift in the garden in May
Full StoryGardening GuidesGreat Design Plant: Chinese Lantern
Light the way to visual delight in the garden with Chinese lantern's papery blooms and pretty colors
Full StoryLandscape DesignGreat Design Plant: Old Fashioned Smoke Bush
Balance garden color with this shrub's cool blue-green foliage, luminous when backlit and sporting yellow-green flowers in spring
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