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Verbena speciosa

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Common Name: Imagination
Bloom Season: Spring to Fall
Bloom Color: Blue
Water Needs: Little Water

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.

Salvia coccinea

Common Name: Lady in Red
Bloom Season: Summer to Frost
Bloom Color: Red
Water Needs: Moderate Water

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

Common Name: Forest Fire
Bloom Season: Summer
Bloom Color: Red
Water Needs: Little Water Moderate Water

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

Common Name: Majoram
Bloom Season: Summer
Bloom Color: White
Water Needs: Little Water Moderate Water

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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Common Name: Cardinal Climber
Bloom Season: Summer
Bloom Color: Red
Water Needs: Little Water Moderate Water

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.

Ipomoea quamoclit Cardinalis

Common Name: Cypress Vine
Bloom Season: Summer
Bloom Color: Red
Water Needs: Little Water Moderate Water

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.

Gypsophila muralis

Common Name: Gypsy Pink
Bloom Season: Summer
Bloom Color: Pink
Water Needs: Moderate Water

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

Common Name: MiniStar Series TANGERINE
Bloom Season: Summer
Bloom Color: Yellow
Water Needs: Little Water Moderate Water

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

Common Name: Big Kiss Series 'Yellow Flame'
Bloom Season: Summer
Bloom Color: Yellow with Red
Water Needs: Little Water Moderate Water

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.

Euphorbia marginata

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Common Name: Snow on the Mountain
Bloom Season: Summer
Bloom Color: White variegated
Water Needs: Little Water

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.