1 Gold Zebra foamy bells
HEUCHERELLA, ZONES 4 TO 9
Gold Zebra’s yellow and green leaves are accented with brilliant gold and blood-red centers. When watered regularly, this stunner tolerates heat and humidity as it grows up to 8 inches tall and wide. It thrives in full shade to part sun and is often used in containers or as an edging plant.
Why we love it: This deer-resistant wonder has showy white flowers that attract bees, butterflies, hummingbirds and other helpful pollinators.
2 Campfire coleus
PLECTRANTHUS SCUTELLARIODES, ANNUAL
Set your beds ablaze with the bright orange foliage of Campfire. This big, bold plant tolerates both part shade and full sun. Reaching about 28 inches tall and nearly as wide, it’s an evergreen perennial that won’t survive frost, so most gardeners grow it as an annual.
Why we love it: The National Gardening Association also highly recommends this hardy, beautiful, no-fail coleus for new gardeners.
3 Copper Cascade foamy bells
HEUCHERELLA, ZONES 4 TO 9
The rosy orange-gold foliage of Copper Cascade lasts throughout the year. This trailing plant mounds up to 12 inches tall and 30 inches wide when in full to part shade. Well-draining, moist soil helps retain its exceptional color. In the late spring to early summer, tiny white flowers appear.
Why we love it: It’s an alluring addition to containers and looks lovely spilling over landscape rocks.
4 Arkansas blue star
AMSONIA HUBRICHTII, ZONES 4 TO 9
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Sense or Nonsense? - Why some birds can taste and smell - but others can't
Does a porcelain berry taste like a blueberry to a gray catbird? Does a block of lard smell like frying bacon to a northern flicker? The short answer is no. While some avian species do have a well-adapted sense of taste or smell, they can't distinguish between flavors and odors the way humans can. They're not picking up every ingredient in the suet you put out, says José Ramírez-Garofalo, an ornithology researcher at Rutgers University in New Jersey and the director of Freshkills Biological Station in Staten Island, New York.
Maple Mania - Amazing facts about this fall foliage mainstay
Amazing facts about this fall foliage mainstay
Food-Focused and Fierce - Meet Canada jays and learn why they eat almost anything they can find
Even if you haven't heard of Canada jays, you've heard of their relatives. Members of the corvid family, they belong to the same group as American crows, blackbilled magpies, and jays including blue, Steller's and scrub. "Unlike many of the other jays, a Canada jay doesn't have a crest of any kind; it just has a rounded head," says Dale Gentry, director of conservation for Audubon Upper Mississippi River.In 2018, the Canada jay's name was changed from gray jay, but Dale thinks the former adjective was fitting. "Most of its body is shades of gray with some white," he says. "There are different subspecies that have different physical traits, but most of them have some lighter coloring on their foreheads, upper breasts and throats, each with a darker streak that starts at each eye and goes back."
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