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Salvia ‘Wendy’s Wish’ Wendy’s Wish Sage PPAF

The plant that is on everyone’s wish list! Vivid magenta tubular flowers with fluted tips will burst from maroon stems in late Spring until Fall. It’s glossy foliage and a compact, slightly open habit makes this evergreen shrub perfect for border plantings, perennial beds and patio containers. Wendy’s Wish can reach 4 ft tall and […]

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Salvia leucantha ‘Santa Barbara’ Compact Mexican Bush Sage P.P. #12,949

A dwarf form of the popular Mexican Sage bush, Santa Barbara only grows to only 2 ft tall. The flowers are made up of velvety purple whorls with extended lavender petals, extending 1 ft at the branch tips. These flowers grow well above the foliage and can bloom Spring until frost. Sant Barbara makes a […]

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Pennisetum setaceum ‘Rubrum’ Purple Fountain Grass

Purple Fountain Grass is a beautiful ornamental grass that can provide texture and color to your landscape. It stands out from the crowd with its purple or burgundy colored foliage and soft, fuzzy blooms. It grows in tufts with a 2 to 3 foot spread, and its bold foxtail plumes can grow to 36 inches tall. It […]

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Pennisetum alopecuroides ‘Hameln’ Dwarf Fountain Grass

This variety of Fountain Grass forms an upright mound of arching green leaves, with bottlebrush plumes of silvery-white flowers that turn to a buff or tan color as the weather cools down. Hameln provides a beautiful color contrast among other shrubs or as the backdrop to a perennial bed. Staying true to it dwarf size, […]

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Muhlenbergia lindheimeri Lindheimer’s Muhly

Muhlenbergia lindheimeri is a Texas Native grass that grows around streams in the Edward’s Plateau area in the warm season months. Lindheimer’s Muhly has an upright growth habit and blue/green foliage. This grass can get up to 4-5′ in height. In the fall this grass will bloom, the flowers are at first pink-tinted then later […]

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Muhlenbergia capillaris Gulf Muhly, Purple Muhly

An extraordinarily beautiful and low maintenance grass in all seasons. The wispy, pink-purple blooming tufts can double the size of the plant when in full bloom. The billowy inflorescence will move weightlessly in the wind, giving an appearance of brightly colored, rolling waves. Gulf Muhly Grass can grow to 4 ft tall with a 3 ft […]

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Miscanthus sinensis ‘Gracillimus’ Maiden Grass

Gracillimus Maiden Grass is one of the most striking ornamental grasses. This elegantly shaped grass has narrow leaves can grow to 6 feet tall. It becomes bronze autumn color and can stand throughout winter to provide architectural interest. Feathery copper-colored plumes appear in fall and will flower until frost.

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Miscanthus sinensis ‘Adagio’ Compact Maiden Grass

Bring the light and airy feel of Adagio to your landscape! dense clump of silver green arching foliage become a fountain of orange, gold and burgundy in fall. Showy plumes will emerge above the foliage in bronze-pink colors, fading to white. Adagio will quickly reaches 5 ft tall with a 3 ft spread. The Fall […]

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Hesperaloe parvifolia Red Yucca

This long blooming, great looking succulent is incredibly adaptable and virtually maintenance free. It’s amazingly drought tolerant AND cold hardy to Zone 5, making it perfect for any landscape!  Red Yucca’s foliage forms in fountaining clumps of thin, dark green leaves, with a spread of 3 feet. The beautiful flower stalks can grow to be 5 feet […]

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Festuca ovina var. glauca ‘Elijah Blue’ Blue Fescue

The eye catching icy blue coloration to this clumping ornamental grass holds up even through the summer heat. Elijah Blue is perfectly suited for edging borders or mass planting as a groundcover. It’s especially drought tolerant once established. This unique grass is topped by upright flower plumes in the summer.

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