Annual
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Plants which live only one season to one year.
Verbena speciosa
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Click on image below to see additional images  Common Name: Imagination
Bloom Season: Spring to Fall
Bloom Color: Blue
Ideal Sun Conditions: Full Sun Mature Height: 12"
Mature Width: 20"
Description:
All-American and Fleuroselect winner. Small flowers of intense blue-violet in masses for bedding, container. Garden Notes: This may be my favorite plant to attract and feed adult butterflies. It begins blooming early and doesn't stop until a hard freeze. It is an annual, but reseeds itself to begin blooming for next years go round.
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Salvia coccinea
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Common Name: Lady in Red
Bloom Season: Summer to Frost
Bloom Color: Red
Ideal Sun Conditions: Full Sun Mature Height: 18"
Mature Width: 12"
Description:
Hummingbirds- Annual-Deadheading helps ensure long bloom season- Taller, Lankier than Forest Fire. |
Salvia coccinea
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Common Name: Forest Fire
Bloom Season: Summer
Bloom Color: Red
Ideal Sun Conditions: Full Sun Mature Height: 18"
Mature Width: 18"
Description:
Hummingbirds- Annual-Deadheading helps ensure long bloom season- Denser, more compact than Lady In Red. |
Origanum majorana
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Common Name: Majoram
Bloom Season: Summer
Bloom Color: White
Ideal Sun Conditions: Full Sun Mature Height: 12"
Description:
Annual herb. Keep blossoms off to promote leaf growth. |
Ipomoea x multifida
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Click on image below to see additional images  Common Name: Cardinal Climber
Bloom Season: Summer
Bloom Color: Red
Ideal Sun Conditions: Full Sun Mature Height: 12'
Mature Width: 24"
Description:
Fast growing vine- provide support, covered with bright red flowers in summer. Larger leaves than cypress vine. Does not reseed. Garden Notes: Great plant for hummingbirds. It provides more "green" on a trellis than Cypress Vine.
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Ipomoea quamoclit Cardinalis
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Common Name: Cypress Vine
Bloom Season: Summer
Bloom Color: Red
Ideal Sun Conditions: Full Sun Mature Height: 10'
Mature Width: 24"
Description:
Vine with bright red flowers. Provide support for it to climb on. It has finely divided leaves- reseeds. Garden Notes: Great plant for hummingbirds.
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Gypsophila muralis
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Common Name: Gypsy Pink
Bloom Season: Summer
Bloom Color: Pink
Ideal Sun Conditions: Full Sun Mature Height: 10"
Mature Width: 12"
Description:
All American selections winner 2004. Annual? FORMS NEAT MOUNDS, SEMI DOUBLE TO FULLY DOUBLE FLOWERS- TRIAL '10. |
Gazania
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Common Name: MiniStar Series TANGERINE
Bloom Season: Summer
Bloom Color: Yellow
Ideal Sun Conditions: Full Sun Mature Height: 8"
Mature Width: 14"
Description:
Short Stemmed flowers tend to stay open longer. FlueroSelect Medal / All American Selection winner. |
Gazania
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Common Name: Big Kiss Series 'Yellow Flame'
Bloom Season: Summer
Bloom Color: Yellow with Red
Ideal Sun Conditions: Full Sun Mature Height: 8"
Mature Width: 14"
Description:
Compact plants produce extra large 4.5" blooms. Strong flower stems. Good for heat and drought. Garden Notes: I am trying this for the first time in 2010. It has had good reviews and is supposed to take less water than many flowers.
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Euphorbia marginata
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Click on image below to see additional images  Common Name: Snow on the Mountain
Bloom Season: Summer
Bloom Color: White variegated
Ideal Sun Conditions: Full Sun Mature Height: 24"
Mature Width: 36"
Description:
Annual,reseeds. Grown for variegated foliage. Good coming up here and there in beds. Pinch back early for bushy plants. Garden Notes: Snow on the Mountain provides interest with its nice white/green colored leaves mid to late summer. Pinch back a couple of times when it is young to provide a lower, bushier plant. It produces a white liquid when pinched that is an eye irritant- BE CAREFUL- USE CLIPPERS AND AVOID SAP.
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