Common name:Trailing Germander
Botanical name:Teucrium X lucidrys
This mini-shrub with small, shiny, dark green leaves on woody stems can be sheared and shaped. The stems trail and rise to 24", with lovely, reddish purple flowers between the upper leaves. It can be used as a low hedge plant in herbal knot gardens. To encourage branching, it should be pruned in the spring. -Holland WIldflower Farm
Common name:Little Princess Japanese Spirea
Botanical name:Spiraea japonica 'Little Princess'
The 'Little Princess' is a deciduous shrub with rose-like blooms in the summer, with overall growth reaching a height of 2'-3'.
Common name:Kramer's Supreme Shade Camellia
Botanical name:Camellia japonica 'Kramer's Supreme'
This large shrub produces rich, turkey red, fragrant flowers that bloom mid-season and has dark green, glossy leaves.
Common name:Heartleaf Bergenia, Winter Bergenia
Botanical name:Bergenia hybrids
This evergreen perennial has round, heart-shaped, glossy leaves that possess waxy-toothed edges. Its growth is clustered, and flowers that bloom in the spring are in shades of lilac or rose, held on stems above the leaves.
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Practice grass-cycling by leaving short grass clippings on lawns after mowing, so that nutrients and organic matter are returned to the soil.
Attract, or buy beneficial insects such as ladybugs and lacewings to control pest outbreaks in your garden.
