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Clearly the amazing duet of the week--At the bottom of the Cliff Garden, apricot-colored Potentilla fruticosa 'Orange Whisper' blooming through Euphorbia cyparissias with its tiny green flowers tinged with a darker shade of apricot. Wow!
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Potentilla and Euphorbia
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Campanula portenschlagiana
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Native to southern Europe, this Campanula, happy in its rock wall, is just one of more species of Campanula at Stonecrop than we can count.
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Definitely Dianthus days at Stonecrop. Note the dark markings on the lighter throats of these frilly gems.
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Dianthus
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Dianthus
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Nearby on the ledge, this white cultivar is so way beyond frilly it is shaggy.
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Semi-evergreen mats of a tiny-leaved Sedum covered with golden flowers. A member of the Crassulaceae family, native to northern China, Kamchatka, and eastern Siberia. Sedums are also known as Stonecrops--how appropriate!
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Sedum kamtschaticum
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Calceolaria integrifolia 'Kentish Hero'
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And looking into the greenhouses, another unusual Calceolaria.
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Native to southern Mexico, this climbing member of the Scrophulariaceae family has pink flowers with a pair of raised orange ridges on the bottom of the flower that go back in an exaggerated perspective.
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Lophospermum scandens
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Cestrum aurantiacum
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A scrambling shrub with yellow flowers--a member of the Solanaceae family, native to Guatemala.
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This photo is of a pot of this yellow flowering plant with variegated foliage in the Conservatory--but others are also being planted in the Flower Garden--in the yellow bed. You never know where plants will show up at Stonecrop! A member of the Primulaceae family.
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Lysimachia congestiflora 'Tricolor'
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Sphaeralcea munroana
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Bright pink flowers on a member of the Malvaceae family, native to British Columbia. A perennial that grows one to two feet high.
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An annual with purple flowers and bracts. A member of the Boraginaceae family.
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Cerinthe major 'Purpurascens'
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Ceratostigma willmottianum
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A small shrub with clusters of small blue Periwinkle-like flowers. Native to western China and a member of the Plumbaginaceae family.
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A member of the Lamiaceae family, this shrub is just one of about 100 species of the genus. Native to southern Europe.
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Teucrium fruticans
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Geranium maderense
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Although currently in a poly house, these Geraniums are destined for the Gravel Garden this summer. Thought by Phillips and Rix to be "the most spectacular of all Geranium species"--we will watch their progress.
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