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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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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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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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Anethum graveolens
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Common Name: Dill 'Hedger'
Bloom Season: Summer
Bloom Color: Yellow
Ideal Sun Conditions: Full Sun Mature Height: 24"
Description:
Cut flower type. Nearly sterile and somewhat compact. Will not reseed itself. |
Anethum graveolens
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Common Name: Dill 'Fernleaf'
Bloom Season: Summer
Bloom Color: Yellow
Ideal Sun Conditions: Full Sun Mature Height: 18"
Mature Width: 12"
Description:
caterpillar food. Reseeds readily. Sow or plant several times in spring and summer for constant supply. |
Anethum graveolens
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Common Name: Dill 'Dukat'
Bloom Season: Summer
Bloom Color: Yellow
Ideal Sun Conditions: Full Sun Mature Height: 48"
Mature Width: 12"
Description:
caterpillar food. Strong, Pungeant foliage, with high oil content- Better for butterflies? |
Anethum graveolens
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Common Name: Dill 'Bouquet'
Bloom Season: Yellow
Bloom Color: Yellow
Ideal Sun Conditions: Full Sun Mature Height: 30"
Mature Width: 12"
Description:
Caterpillar food. Reseeds readily. Sow or plant several times in spring and summer for constant supply |
Asclepias curassivica 'Bloodflower'
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Common Name: Blood Flower
Bloom Season: Summer
Bloom Color: Red
Ideal Sun Conditions: Full Sun Mature Height: 36"
Mature Width: 24"
Description:
A tender perennial in the north, Plants grow 28' tall and have flat umbels of red flowers with orange hoods, flowers the first year. Plants are loved by butterflies. Blooms all summer with new flowers produced as the stems grow. |
Asclepias curassivica
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Common Name: Apollo Orange
Bloom Season: Summer
Bloom Color: Red
Ideal Sun Conditions: Full Sun Mature Height: 36"
Mature Width: 24"
Description:
Dark red flowers with orange centers on plants that grow 2.5 feet tall. A tender perennial, grown as an annual in the north. Garden Notes: Produces flat umbels of red flowers with orange hoods, flowers the first year. Plants are loved by butterflies. Blooms all summer with new flowers produced as the stems grow.
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