Agrostis capillaris (Brown top)
Other names: Common bent grass, Common bent, Rhode Island bent, Black quitch, Herd's grass, Monkey's grass, Red top grass, Agrostis tenuis, Agrostis vulgaris, Colonial bent
A. capillaris is a tufted grass with finely ribbed leaves, which are short and taper to a fine point. It is useful for luxury lawns which will be frequently mowed.
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0m max. spread |
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0.3m max. height |
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4-6 weeks to maturity |
Aquilegia vulgaris Grandmother's Garden Group (Columbine Grandmother's Garden Group)
Other names: Aquilegia vulgaris 'Grandmother's Garden', Granny's bonnet Grandmother's Garden Group, Monk's head lily Grandmother's Garden Group, Crowfoot Grandmother's Garden Group, Grannies bonnet Grandmother's Garden Group
Grandmother's Garden Group are upright, clump-forming, herbaceous perennials with deeply-divided, dark blue- to grey-green leaves and slender, upright stems bearing nodding, short-spurred, purple, pink, red, or white flowers in late spring and early summer.
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0.5m max. spread |
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0.9m max. height |
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2-5 years to maturity |
Aquilegia vulgaris var. stellata 'Greenapples' (Columbine 'Greenapples' )
Other names: Granny's bonnet 'Greenapples' , Aquilegia vulgaris var. clematiflora 'Greenapples' , Columbine 'Green Apples', Clematis-flowered granny's bonnet 'Greenapples' , Clematis-flowered columbine 'Greenapples' , Aquilegia 'Greenapples' , Aquilegia 'Green apples'
'Greenapples' is an upright, clump-forming, herbaceous perennial with ternately divided basal leaves, lime-green in spring and turning mid-green by summer. Leafy racemes of pale green buds open to nodding, many-petalled, pale green flowers that fade to cream with age.
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0.4m max. spread |
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0.6m max. height |
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2-5 years to maturity |
Polypodium calirhiza 'Sarah Lyman' (Nested polypody 'Sarah Lyman')
Other names: Habit polypody 'Sarah Lyman', Polypodium californicum 'Sarah Lyman', California polypody 'Sarah Lyman', Licorice fern 'Sarah Lyman', Polypodium vulgare var. intermedium 'Sarah Lyman', Polypodium intermedium 'Sarah Lyman', Goniophlebium cambricum var. intermedium 'Sarah Lyman' , Lyman fern
'Sarah Lyman' is a terrestrial or epiphytic, usually summer-dormant, borderline hardy, deciduous or evergreen fern and narrowly triangular to lance-shaped, pinnate, grey-green fronds divided into oblong, pointed, shallowly lobed pinnae.
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0.9m max. spread |
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0.45m max. height |
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5-10 years to maturity |
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