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Catlin's Giant bugleweed is a star performer in my Zone 7b north Georgia mountains garden. I planted a quart-size transplant for the local nursery in spring 2021. Two years later, it had spread 2-3 feet in each direction. The purple-green leaves give rise to showy purple flower spikes in late spring, blooming along with the dogwoods. The purple leaves continue through the summer and autumn, and die-back significantly in late autumn, though not completely.

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Kale Redbor is a "must-have" in my zone 7b winter garden, both as an ornamental plant and as an edible vegetable. I plant 1-gallon transplants from the local nursery in the autumn. The plant thrives throughout the winter, even surviving a 3-day Flash Freeze down to 4 degrees. I harvest the bottom leaves throughout the winter to munch raw as a snack or chop into a salad. The plant grows to about 3-feet tall by spring, then bolts into a beautiful crown of yellow flowers atop the deep purple leaves. As an annual, it dies off after blooming.

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This daylily has really done well in my zone. I am surprised at its hardiness. Many similar blue eyed ones like Elfin Blues, Here's To You Bill Robinson, Mississippi Bill Robinson, Bumblebee Blues, Dejas Blues, that I got have struggled to grow in my garden. Some have never bloomed and some are still either double or single fan after more than 3 years. However, Moon Sworn has bloomed well and increased well in my garden. I highly recommend this blue eyed daylily for zone 6. Not sure if it does well in zone 5 or less though.

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There are 3 varieties of Murraya koenigii: the regular size plant; the dwarf variety and a mini variety 'Gamthi'.
M. koenigii 'Gamthi' is the only one that can be grown in a container as it remains small : 2-3 feet in size, but dense and well branched.
It is also reported to have more pungent and smaller leaves then regular/dwarf varieties.
The full grown trees in-ground at Mounts Botanical Gardens are regularly topped in spring and look like bonsai trees: very attractive.

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This is also being sold as Echeveria Purpusorum 'Green Gilva'.

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I see the listing states this is a late season bloomer, and imagine that's how it was registered, but I would encourage you to edit that description since in my garden this hybrid was/ is blooming very, very early as it is almost out of season! Thrill Ride, Sutton's hybrid is also in bloom, so it's not a solo aberration, but apparently this rebloomer is very capable of being an early bloomer (this is also not the only instance it's been right up there as one of the first blooming Tb's. Perhaps the fact it reblooms in certain gardens in the fall caused confusion?).

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'Join the Party' (Hanson, C 2009) seems to have either fallen out of favour or just never quite caught on, and in either case, that's unfortunate as I believe this daylily is undervalued.

With 6-inch blooms on 33-inch scapes, it begins late in the season (here in the north) but blooms reliably and with no special fuss or care each year. The petals have a light ruflle, it boasts a distinctive white midrib, and has a sculpted / pleated texture etched out of the throat onto the petals. And this is a true red (not an orange-red or a pink-red) which flags your attention from across the garden.

Yet, when I do a 'google' search for it, the only listing I find for it is here, in the NGA database. I think a lot of folks missed the boat on this one.

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Anemone 'Saint Brigid Mix' bloomed with big colorful blossoms in spring. Although advertised as hardy in zones 3-7, they did not survive the hot summer of my zone 7b north Georgia garden. If I grow them again, it will be as an annual.

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Early season Paeonia 'Belgravia' has 10-inch double flowers in shades of light red to dark pink.

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My late dh and I were walking along a woodland trail, just inside a field, and shafts of June light were hitting a carpet of trailing arbutus on the forest floor. What a surprise that those tiny, improbable flowers could produce such noticeable wafts of delicate fragrance at the altitude of our noses...lots of springs and creeks in the hills of that river system...one of my most treasured June memories.

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