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Native Plants

  • Perennials grace our gardens year after year with their variety of brilliant colors and unique foliage forms. Perennials come in a variety of sizes, shapes and colors and can bloom from early April until late October.  Some excellent perennial flowers for the area include the following: Blanket Flower (Gaillardia X ‘grandiflora’); Foxglove (Digitalis ‘purpurea’); Rose…

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  • broad beech fern frond

    By Rachel Dutton, Paulding County Master Gardener Extension Volunteer Every Spring and Fall, when wildflowers, ferns, native shrubs, and native trees awake from their dormancy, I have noticed the variety of ferns and wildflowers in my yard. Being a curious gardener, I wondered how many varieties of ferns could be found in Paulding County. One…

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