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Gateway Garden

This south entrance garden features many colorful shrubs.  All plants are hardy, drought-tolerant, and low maintenance.  A large arbor covered in ivy welcomes visitors. 

false spirea 'Matchaball'

Sorbaria sorbifolia 'Levgreen'

Shrub

Prairie dropseed

Sporobulus heterolepis

Grass

Ivory Silk Japanese Lilac

Syringa reticulata 'Ivory Silk'

Tree

Lungwort

Pulmonaria spp.

Perennial

ornamental rhubarb

Rheum palmatum 'tanguticum'

Perennial

Tiger Eyes Staghorn Sumac

Rhus typhina 'Bailtiger'

Shrub

Alika

Rosa gallica grandiflora x 'Alika'

Arching Shrub Rose

Engleman ivy

Parthenocissus quinquefolia 'Engleman'

woody vine

Little Spire Russian Sage

Perovskia atriplicifolia 'Little Spire'

Perennial

Creeping Jenny, Moneywort

Lysimachia nummularia

Ground Cover Perennial

Bearded Iris

Iris germanica

Rhizome

Dwarf Bearded Iris

Iris pumila

Rhizome

Blue Oat Grass

Helictotrichon sempervirens

Perennial Grass

Coneflower Spirit

Echinacea 'Cheyenne Spirit'

Perennial

Turkestan Burning Bush

Euonymus nana 'Turkestanica'

Shrub

dogwood 'ivory halo'

Cornus sericea Cornus alba 'Ivory halo'

Shrub

Sweet William

Dianthus spp.

Biennial

Concorde Japanese Barberry

Berberis thunbergii 'Concorde'

Shrub

Golden Nugget Barberry

Berberis thunbergii 'Monlers'

Shrub

Barberry Royal burgundy

Berberis thunbergii v. atropurpurea 'Gentry'

shrub

Elephant Ears

Bergenia spp.

Perennial

Pink Turtlehead

Chelone obliqua

Perennial

Columbine

Aquilegia spp.

Perennial

Kinnikinnick

Arctostaphylos uva-ursi

Native Shrub, Ground Cover

Silver Mound

Artemisia schmidtiana 'Silver Mound'

Perennial

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