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Butter Rum Tickseed

Coreopsis x PERMATHREAD™ Butter Rum (PP32739) Mmm-mmm! Low-maintenance, long-blooming and cheerful! Golden-apricot, wider petals cup slightly upwards with tips dusted with just a smidgeon of

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Orange Elf Tickseed

Coreopsis x LI’L BANG Orange Elf (PPAF) is a compact variety, smothered in stunning orange daisy flowers with red overtones, gold eyes and gold tips

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General Sikorski Clematis

Clematis x General Sikorski has large, 6”-8”, brilliant lavender blue flowers with yellow anthers. A stunning plant when grown up trellises, arbors or on fencing.

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Virginia Wild Rye

Elymus virginicus is a cool season, perennial bunchgrass that is Native to Wisconsin and much of the US east of the Rockies. It can be

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Bluejoint Grass

Calamagrostis canadensis is a Wisconsin Native grass and a wonderful grass for moist ground stabilization. This grass has a blue cast to it starting in

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Prairie Iron Weed

Vernonia fasciculata is named for its tough stem and provides an excellent upright form in the garden. It has clusters of magenta-purple flowers atop 3’-6’

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Wild Petunia

Ruellia humilis is a low, mounding perennial wildflower. It emerges after all frost danger has passed and during the summer blooms with lavender, funnel shaped

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Northern Sea Oats

Chasmanthium latifolium is a clump forming, warm season, perennial grass that grows in many different situations from sun to shade, moist to dry. A Wisconsin

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Tiny Skyline Lily

Lilium x LILY Tiny Skyline is a spectacular dwarf Asiatic Lily with clusters of dramatic, showy, two-tone orange flowers on compact stems. Flowers rise on

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