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1. ‘Duet’ Beautyberry
Name:Callicarpa dichotoma‘Duet’
Usda Hardiness Zones:5 to 8
Size:4 to 6 feet talland5 to 7 human foot wide
Conditions : Full sunlight to fond shade ; average garden grime
‘ dyad ’ is a favorite pale - leaved bush in my Zone 7 twilight garden . I prune it severely in late winter , yet it comes back during the growing time of year . In addition to the variegated leave-taking , livid flowers from June through August and small whitened yield in dip brighten garden bed . ‘ dyad ’ makes a great specimen plant life , or found it in group for more wan gleam . The birds seem to leave alone the white fruit alone longer than that of the purple beautyberries .
2. ‘Itsaul White’ Dianthus
Name:Dianthus plumarius‘Itsaul White’
Zones:3 to 9
Size:6 to 9 inch marvelous and 18 to 24 inches wide
Conditions : Full sun to partial shade ; average to dry , sharply drain , impersonal to slightly alkalic soil
Did you arrest the “ it ’s all white ” joke in this cultivar ’s name ? Sparkling white , feathery , exclusive , 1½-inch - wide blossom float above a grasslike tussock of ash gray leaves . After flowering from May to July , the silvery mat of foliage persists all year and do an excellent , sun - love ground cover . This cottage deary is seldom browsed by deer because of its knock-down aroma , which some liken to vanilla . In the warmer character of the South , this perennial can be illiberal of heat energy and humidness . In those area , ‘ Itsaul White ’ is still deserving growing as an annual .
3. Silver Sage
Name:Salvia argentea
Zones:5 to 8
Size:6 to 12 inches talland9 to 18 inch broad
Conditions : Full sun ; dry , well - drained gravelly or flaxen dirt
This Mediterranean biyearly bloom in other summer . It develop a mound of 8 - inch , scallop , sericeous leaves in its first year ; flowering stem emerge from the basal rosette of foliation in the second growing season . These branching silvery spindle boast snowy , hooded , tubular efflorescence . sheer back stems after flowering to extend the life of the plant life . bump off side shoots to bring about new plants , or let the plant go to seminal fluid every two to three year . Use this salvia in containers or near paths in your outside entertaining area .
4. ‘Whirling Butterflies’ Gaura
Name:Gaura lindheimeri‘Whirling Butterflies’
Zones:5 to 9
Size:2 to 3 feet grandiloquent and broad
Conditions : Full sunlight ; lean , dry , well - drained grime
This gray - green aborigine of Texas and Louisiana is lovely in the twilight garden . Pink buds open to 1 - in - extensive ashen flower on upright , branch stanch . This willowy perennial pull pollinators over a long florescence flow from May to September . It is heat and drought tolerant , a good choice for ironic localization or container planting . Expect some cervid browsing if planted in an unprotected location .
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June Mays gardens in Birmingham, Alabama, and Sewanee, Tennessee. She trained in garden design at the English Gardening School in London.
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June Mays gardens in Birmingham, Alabama, and Sewanee, Tennessee. She trained in garden design at the English Gardening School in London.
