AHS Great Plant GuideDesigned to help gardeners choose plants in two different ways, the AHS Great Plant Guide features color photos, A-Z and planting guides, and cold-hardiness and heat-zone maps. Over 1,000 plants have full entries, full-color photographs, and details that tell you what type of plant it is, how it grows, what its ornamental features are, where it grows and looks best, and how to care for it. A special section on popular annuals and bedding plants has been added to this edition. |
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acidic soil alkaline alkaline soil annual arching berries blue flowers Bulb bushy CLEMATIS clump-forming perennial clumps color compact Conifer creamy cultivar CULTIVATION Best CULTIVATION Grow Cut back dark green leaves Deadhead deciduous deciduous shrub deciduous tree deep dense drained soil early spring early summer evergreen perennial Evergreen shrub flowerheads flowers are borne flowers in late fragrant full sun glossy groundcover Grow in moist Grow in well-drained grown herbaceous border HOSTA HYACINTHUS ORIENTALIS lance-shaped late spring late summer light shade marginally hardy mid-green leaves mid-summer mixed border moderately fertile soil moist but well-drained mulch orange organic soil oval pale partial shade perennial bearing Perennial page petals pink flowers plants poor to moderately position in full pruning reliably moist RHODODENDRON rock garden scented shelter from cold shoots shrub bearing shrub border slow-growing soil in full spikes spreading subshrub sun or partial sunny Tolerates Trim well-drained soil woodland garden yellow flowers