BEST VINES
Clematis Akebia Carolina Jessamine Crimson Trumpet Honeysuckle Chinese Wisteria Trumpet Vines Silver Lace Vine Boston Ivy Climbing Hydrangea Mandevilla (not winter hardy)
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BEST ORNAMENTAL GRASSES
Purple Fountain Grass Karl Foerster Feather Reed Grass Maiden Grasses Dwarf Pampas Grass Variegated Japanese Silver Grass Ribbon Grass Moudry Fountain Grass Pink Muhly Grass Ravenna Plume Grass Blue Fescue
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BEST SUMMER FOLIAGE AND BULBS
Powis Castle Artemisia Ornamental Sweet Potato Vines Sun Coleus Tropicana Canna Caladiums Hostas Elephant Ear Heuchera Silver Dragon Liriope Rice Paper Plant
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GREAT CRAPEMYRTLES
Hope, white 3’-5’ Victor, red 3’-5’ Zuni, lavender 5’-8’ Hopi, pink 5’-8’ Catawba, deep violet 14’ Raspberry Sundae, raspb. red 14’ Dynamite, cherry red 18’ Natchez, white 18’ Red Rocket, red 18’ Choctaw, bright pink 18’
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HYRID TEA ROSES
Peace, or Bella Roma, (J.P.) Yellow Pink Tiffany, Pink Queen Elizabeth, Pink Just Joey, Apricot Crimson Bouquet, Red Tropicana, Salmon Red Double Delight, Red White Fragrant Cloud, Coral Red Sheer Bliss, Cream White Midas Touch, Yellow Honor, White
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CLIMBER ROSES
Zephirine Drouhin, Pink New Dawn, Pink Climbing Iceberg, White Golden Showers, Yellow Climbing Peace, Yellow Pink Don Juan, Red America, Salmon Pink Joseph Coat, Orange Blaze Improved, Red Eden, Pink
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LANDSCAPE ROSES
Carefree Wonder, Pink Flower Carpet, Pink,white,red Carefree Delight, Rose Sunsprite, Yellow Royal Bonica, Pink Scarlet Meidiland, Red Knock Out, Red, Pink, White Single and double Simplicity, Red,Pink,White Lady Elsie Mae, Pink The Fairy, Pink Iceberg, White and Pink
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TALL SHADE TREES TOLERANT OF DRY SIGHTS
Thornless Honeylocust Chinese Pistache Bur Oak Shumardi Oak Hackberry Kentucky Coffee Tree Lacebark Elm Cedar Elm Sawtooth Oak Osage Orange ‘White Shield’
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TALL SHADE TREES FOR BETTER AND WETTER SITES
Sycamore Bald Cypress Sweet Gum, fruitless variety Tulip Tree Red Oak or Pin Oak Linden Water Oak Pecan River Birch Red Maple or Sugar Maples
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FLOWERING TREES
Flowering Dogwoods Oklahoma Redbud Ornamental Pears, Aristocrat, Chanticleer Flowering Crabapples Star Magnolia Saucer Magnolia Golden Rain Tree Kwanzan Flowering Cherry Chinese Fringe Tree Pink Dawn Chitalpa
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SMALL ORNAMENTAL TREES
Japanese Maples Red Buckeye Forest Pansy Redbud Purple Smoke Tree Columnar Hornbeam Weeping Blue Atlas Cedar Little Gem Magnolia Japanese Red Umbrella Pine Krauter Vesuvius Purple Plum Autumn Gold Ginkgo
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EVERGREEN TREES
Southern Magnolia Live Oak Cedar of Lebanon Blue Atlas or Deodar Cedars Loblolly Pine Austrian Pine Hoopsi Blue Spruce Leyland Cypress Taylor Juniper Canaert Juniper
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LARGE EVERGREEN SHRUBS
American Holly Foster Holly Yaupon Holly Frazier Photinia Nellie R. Stevens Holly Bright n Tight Cherry Laurel Otto Luykens Laurel Leatherleaf Vibernum Silver Thorn Elaeagnus Dwarf Burford Holly
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SPRING FLOWERING SHRUBS
Indian Hawthorn Flowering Quince Forsythia Spireas Weigela Virginia Sweetspire Lilacs Azaleas Vibernums Kerria
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SUMMER FLOWERING SHRUBS
Hydrangeas Roses Crapemyrtles Buddleia Althea Chaste Tree Blue Mist Caryopteris Beauty Bush Abelia Potentilla
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SHRUBS FOR SHADE
Azaleas Camellias Hollies, ie, Japanese Holly English Holly, Blue Holly Japanese and English Boxwoods Japanese Yews Glossy Abelias Nandinas Mahonias Sweet Spire Itea Gold Dust Aucuba
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EVERGREEN SHRUBS FOR SUN
Hollies: Dwf Burford,Dwf. Chinese, Yaupon Yucca’s Pyracantha’s Photinia Juniper’s, ie, Tam Juniper Gray Owl Juniper Japanese Garden Juniper Andorra Juniper Mugo Pine Silver Thorn Elaeagnus
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ANNUAL FLOWERS FOR P.M.SHADE and A.M. SUN
Impatiens Begonias Geranium Pansy Lobelia Snapdragon Dianthus Celosia Heliotrope Allysum
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ANNUAL FLOWERS FOR FULL SUN
Lantana Verbena Penta Salvia Scaevola Zinnia Gazania Petunia Marigold Cleome Angelonia
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PERENNIALS FOR SUN
Coreopsis Black-Eyed Susan Iris Daylily Asters and Chrysanthemums Veronicas Hibiscus Shasta Daisy Peony Phlox
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PERENNIALS FOR SHADE
Hosta Hellebore Columbine Bleeding Heart Heuchera Creeping Phlox Astilbe Pulmonaria Ribbon Grass Lily Turf, Liriope
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HOSTA FOR OKLAHOMA
(Top ten in the U.S.A.) Sum and Substance Great Expectations Gold Standard Frances Williams Aureo-Marginata Patriot Krossa Regal Love Pat Francee Sieboldiana ‘Elegans’
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MY FAVORITE PERENNIALS FOR SUNNY SPOTS
‘Goldsturm’ Black Eyed Susan ‘Pink Delight’ Butterfly Bush ‘Six Hills Giant’ Catmint or Nepeta ‘Stella de Oro’ Daylily ‘David’ Garden Phlox ‘Siskiyou Pink’ Gaura ‘Powis Castle’ Artemisia ‘Cherry Red’ Autumn Sage ‘Disco Bells’ Hardy Hybiscus ‘Early Sunrise’ Coreopsis
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