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Perennial Flowers for Wyoming Gardens The following perennials were picked for their true durability. These are the ones you want for those really tough locations where you want a bit of color whether it be poor soil, high wind or that sunny dry spot. These will thrive with occasional deep watering once a month in cooler periods. and twice a month in the heat of summer.
Hopflower Oregano (Origanum libanoticum) Plant Select® 2004 Lovely trailing herb 18-24 inches wide by 10-15 inches tall. Lavender and chartreuse bi-color lantern-shaped bracts form throughout the summer months drying to brown in fall. Best suited to raised beds, rock gardens or containers. Plant in well-drained garden loam, clay or sandy soil. This is an eye catcher for all who see it! Oh, and the smell of oregano! Attracts bees to help pollinate your garden. Avoid too much reflected heat.
Logan Calhoun Wine Cups (Callirhoe alcaeoides ‘Logan Calhoun’) New! 2000 GreatPlants! This Great Plains native forms a ground hugging mound 3 feet wide. This one produces sparkling white wine cup blooms. A great contrast to prairie wine cups!
Orange Carpet Hummingbird Trumpet (Zauschneria garretti ‘Orange Carpet’) Plant Select 2001. A real eye catcher! It’s vivid green foliage is topped with glowing orange-scarlet flowers from July to frost! Hummingbirds will be drawn to tubular flowers. It is cascading in growth habit, so place it to the front of the garden bed and watch the show. A bit of afternoon shade makes this plant thrive and bloom the most. Natively found on the far west side of Wyoming. Click Here to watch our VIDEO about this great plant!
Poppy Mallow 'Prairie Wine Cups' (Callirhoe involucrata) Plant Select® 1999 This low growing native prairie plant blooms repeatedly during summer in bright burgundy cup-shaped flowers with white eyes on low arching stems with dark green deeply cut leaves. Flowers and foliage are reminiscent of Cranesbill Geraniums on this Poppy Mallow but at less than 1 foot tall and up to 3feet in diameter, the form is not. The only drawback to keeping this darling besides drowning in wet clay is that rabbits munch too much during those years of cottontail population explosions. Plant in soil that drains, or in clay kept on the dry side, taking care to seat the plant at grade and not in a low spot.
 Red Sunset Trumpet Creeper ( Campsis radicans 'Red Sunset') 
New! This vine of the west, especially this cultivar has wonderful scarlet-red trumpet flowers from early summer to autumn! Give this vine room to grow on a wire fence or good trellis - you and the hummingbirds will be happy! The literature is divided as to whether it's zone 4 or zone 5 winter hardy - we think it's so beautiful that it's worth the trial.
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Rock Clematis (Clematis columbiana tenuiloba) This is so new it doesn’t even have a trade name except to be called “rock clematis”, a 2006 GreatPlants release. Not every clematis was meant to grow on a trellis. Small, umbrella – shaped flowers of violet and pale blue against rich green foliage is striking! A native of the Rocky Mountains. Excellent in rock gardens or other well drained beds.
Plant Select® 2004 Finely filigreed silver-gray foliage gives a frothy appearance on a mound that will spread to nearly 3 feet wide and up to 18 inches tall. Never floppy due to the plants’ woody underpinnings. Wonderful year-round textural accent plant for xeric gardens. Rabbit and Deer resistant. Click Here to watch our VIDEO of Seafoam Artemisia.
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Seafoam Artemisia (Artemisia versicolor)
These plants need regular watering somewhat like a bluegrass lawn so that they never dry to depth in the root system during the active growing season and need occasional winter watering to prevent root dessication and resultant plant death.
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