so unlike the leafy stems of an ordinary aster that a passerby might take the clump for a tuft of sedge
and drought-tolerant once established
so site the bright seeds away from children and livestock
Campsis x tagliabuana 'Madame Galen' is the trumpet vine at its most garden-worthy
essentially a prairie plant of open glades on limestone soil
Buddleia davidii x fallowiana 'Lochinch' Large Shrubs so unlike the leafy stems'Lochinch' is one of the most refined of the butterfly bushes, a cross of Buddleia davidii and the silvery Buddleia fallowiana that takes the best of both: dense, fragrant panicles of soft lavender blue, each tiny flower lit by a small orange eye, over handsome gray green, almost silver foliage. Compact and rounded, the shrub blooms all summer into fall on the new growth. Easy and tough, 'Lochinch' wants full sun and well drained soil, takes heat and