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Salvia
... bedding salvia has been around for many years. Small violet blue or white flowers in 10 inch long spikes top 2 to 3 foot tall plants. Mealy-cup sage is hardy through most of the state ... in deep blue and silvery white. Mexican Bush Sage (Salvia leucantha): Spectacular purple and white velvety flower spikes cover the plant from late summer until frost. Salvia leucantha does well in full sun and heat, ...
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Orchids of Brazil. Taxonomy
... slightly reflexed, with margins sometimes reflexed, medium-green to dark-green, up to 15 cm long and 4 cm wide. Flower sheaths well developed, slightly leathery and strongly flattened, linear-oblanceolate, ... Hfglla. crispata; coloration is as on the pseudobulbs. Inflorescences are similar in both species, with long spikes and flowers bunched at the top, and this is (together with flower color, to ...
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Lavandula
... in groups of 6-10 on spikes in midsummer; aromatic Hardiness: perennial, zones 5-9 Soil: well-drained Light: sun Pests and problems: leaf spot, root rot, four-lined plant bug, ... 18" tall 'Folgate' angustifolia purple-blue narrow, gray-green leaves 'Grappenhall' x intermedia lavender-blue long spikes, 2-3' tall 'Grosso' x intermedia violet strong scent, commercial cultivar 'Hidcote' angustifolia dark ...
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Brooklyn Botanic Garden: Splendid Salvias—14 Tender Perennials for Summer and Fall Bloom
... , with age, sometimes become round) and opposite leaves. Their flowers, which are borne on terminal spikes, generally consist of colorful tubes with two lips of unequal length, the lower ones usually spreading. ... an attractive foil in the front or middle of a border. Salvia darcyi I love the long spikes of coral-red flowers on this salvia, particularly since they appear continuously from July through ...
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Awesome Agastache—Fruity Fragrance and Sorbet Colors for Summer and Fall Gardens
... Like anise hyssop, they all produce wonderful pungent foliage and bear dainty, tubular flowers on dense spikes from midsummer until first frost. But many are quite different in appearance from A. foeniculum, most ... Agastache and one of the best butterfly feeding stations in the garden. Its fat, five-inch-long spikes of powder-blue flowers perch atop three-foot stems. The two- to three-inch, toothed ...
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botany/gladiolus
... leaves and range in height from 2 to 6 feet. In the spring, summer, or fall they bear long spikes of trumpet-shaped blossoms. The flowers open first at the base of the spike with the older ... hastened with an application of a low-nitrogen fertilizer a month after planting and again when the flower spikes begin to grow. During the summer, cultivate the soil around your plants to keep weeds down, but ...
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Delphiniums with Dusky Pink Flowers
... light pink with a white eye in the left hand picture flowers late in the season and produces long spikes. The darker pink with white eye in the centre has a rather short bloom on a ... this. In the last few seasons we tried crosses to 'Min', for example. This cultivar produces superb spikes of pale violet flowers but the International Delphinium Register shows that it has the pink-flowered variety ' ...
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Favourites
... foliage for a shade or woodland garden. Very fragfrant blooms in late summer. Echium russicum Long spikes of reddish flowers, quite nice. Blooms in June, best in full sun. Eriogonum ovalifolium ... great little plant for the shade. Very showy blooms, easy plant to grow. Primula cortusoides Long-blooming Primrose with several dozen magenta flowers per plant. Canadian Prairie Wildflowers * = we also grow ...
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Floridata: Pandanus utilius
... , and many horizontal spreading branches. At the end of each branch is a spiral rosette of long, linear leaves armed with small reddish teeth along the margins. Old leaf scars spiral around ... tree's height. Screw pines are dioecious: The male plants produce fragrant colorful flowers in long spikes. The females produce weird looking pendulous fruits that resemble orange pineapples or oversized pine ...
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Bellflowers
... gardens later, I still treasure the various, diverse bellflowers for their adapability, easiness, color range, and long bloom period. Cup and Saucer is just one of the over 300 members of the Campanulas. ... Bellflower-the old-time campanula that was thought to help sore throats. Rich lilac bells on long spikes face outward. Are good for cutting. 30 Tubular Bellflower-excellent for garden or cutting, ...
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