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The designer clothing website Matches now offers a garden’s worth of veggie earthenware from the 139-year-old Portuguese ceramics manufactory Bordallo Pinheiro, including plates that look like ragwort leaves, each affixed with a high relief ladybug.—Alexa Brazilian Mari Maeda and Yuji Oboshi, New York Times, 16 Oct. 2023 Annual in most of U.S.; perennial in zones 10–11; deer resistant kazakovmaksimGetty Images Commonly known as silver ragwort, this icy-looking plant thrives in sunny areas, but can also tolerate shade.—Terri Robertson, Country Living, 30 June 2022 In late spring, wild geranium, golden ragwort, and bright yellow daffodils adorn the forested paths.—Emily Pennington, Outside Online, 14 Apr. 2022 A year after the deer were excluded, drifts of golden ragwort appeared in spring, followed by blue mistflower in late summer.—Washington Post, 7 July 2021 Colin chose flowers native to Maryland that are good for pollinators, including cone flowers, aster, black-eyed Susans, goldenrod, yarrow, lavender, ragwort and phlox.—Janet Kusterer, baltimoresun.com, 28 May 2021 Add ground covers like robin’s plantain, golden ragwort.—Andrea F. Siegel, baltimoresun.com, 20 Mar. 2018 An unusual evergreen, ragwort slowly spreads to form a blue-gray ground cover with interesting, vertical, smooth-edged, gray-blue paddle-like leaves.—Debbie Arrington, sacbee.com, 22 June 2017
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