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Twice Beautiful
Gardens
Enhancing Your Daylight Garden
With
Light-Reflecting Plants
Moonlight Reflection Plants
Special Day-Time Requirements
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Sun-Loving
Shade-Loving
Partial Light
Water and Bog Garden Plants
Sun-Loving Plants
~Require greater than 6 hours of sun~
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Cleome - Annual, drought tolerant, attract moths,
standards & dwarfs available
Sun-Loving Plants
~Require greater than 6 hours of sun~
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Lamb’s Ear - Very drought tolerant, multiplies
readily, velvety leaf texture
Sun-Loving Plants
~Require greater than 6 hours of sun~
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Ornamental Grasses - variegated, clumping,
evergreen, wide variety of soils
Sun-Loving Plants
~Require greater than 6 hours of sun~
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Antique & Antique-Hybrid Roses -Well drained
soils, easy care, wide variety of sizes,
many flower forms
Cecile
Brunner
Cheroke
e
More Antique Roses
Very Popular Varieties
Lady Bank’s
White
Moonlight Musk
Lady Bank’s
Yellow
Sun-Loving Plants
~Require greater than 6 hours of sun~
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Flowering Tobacco - Very fragrant at night, pest
free, well-drained soils, annual.
Sun-Loving Plants
~Require greater than 6 hours of sun~
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‘Margarita’ Sweet Potato - Vines readily, drought
tolerant, perennial, chartreuse color
Sun-Loving Plants
~Require greater than 6 hours of sun~
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Dusty Miller - Very drought tolerant, true white
leaves, coarse textured
Shade-Loving Plants
~Requires four hours or less of sunlight~
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White Impatiens - Moist soil, re-seeding annual,
pest free
Shade-Loving Plants
~Requires four hours or less of sunlight~
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Caladiums - Perennials, wide variety of fancy-leaf
types, prefers moist/well drained soils
Shade-Loving Plants
~Requires four hours or less of sunlight~
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Coleus - annual, wide variety of leaf types, easily
propagated, prefers moist soils
Shade-Loving Plants
~Requires four hours or less of sunlight~
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Liriope - perennial, wide variety of colors, easily
propagated, prefers moist/rich soils
Shade-Loving Plants
~Requires four hours or less of sunlight~
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Caladiums - Perennials, wide variety of fancy-leaf
types, prefers moist/well drained soils
Shrubs, Trees and Vines
~Shrubs~
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Oakleaf Hydrangea - Large shrub, prefers moist
soil, attracts moths, deciduous.
Shrubs, Trees and Vines
~Shrubs~
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Mock Orange - Fragrant, spreads, blooms in
spring, deciduous
Shrubs, Trees and Vines
~Shrubs~
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Gardenia – Prefers shade, evergreen, very fragrant,
wide variety of soils
Shrubs, Trees and Vines
~Shrubs~
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Camellias & Sasanquas - Shade-loving, acid soils,
blooms in winter
Shrubs, Trees and Vines
~Shrubs~
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Esperanza - full sun, drought tolerant, pest free,
large yellow flowers, deciduous
Shrubs, Trees and Vines
~Trees~
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Ginko Biloba - Slow growing tree, long lived, pest
free, wide range of soil conditions
Shrubs, Trees and Vines
~Trees~
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Crape Myrtle - Many growth forms, grows in a
wide variety of soil types, pest resistant
Shrubs, Trees and Vines
~Vines~
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Moon Vine - Related to morning-glories, blooms at
night, attracts moths, semi-winter hardy
Shrubs, Trees and Vines
~Vines~
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Rangoon Creeper - Vine, sun, well drained soil,
deciduous, rapid grower, flower changes
color as bloom matures
Shrubs, Trees and Vines
~Vines~
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Jasmine - Vines, lots of varieties, evergreen, wide
variety of soils, very fragrant
Water & Bog Plants
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The Louisiana Irises
Water & Bog Plants
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Lizard Tail
Water & Bog Plants
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Rootbeer Plant
Water & Bog Plants
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Cattails
Water & Bog Plants
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Taro & Elephant Ears
Taro
Water & Bog Plants
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The Sedges
Water & Bog Plants
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The Rush
Water & Bog Plants
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The Arrowleaf
Twice Beautiful Gardens
The End!
Written by:
Sarah Sloan, Jefferson County Master Gardener
Vincent Mannino, County Extension Director - FBC