Cool Season Flowers Cool season plants add color to flower beds at this time of the year. By planting some of these hardy bedding plants such as dianthus, hollyhock, pansy, petunia, sweet alyssum, viola, snapdragon and stock, gardeners can bridge the color gap before warm season plants begin to thrive. Petunias can be planted now. […]
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Sweet Olive, Tea Olive, Fragrant Olive Osmanthus fragrans, commonly known as Sweet Olive, Tea Olive or Fragrant Olive is an evergreen native to China. This plant was cultivated for home gardens and temple gardens. Grown here before 1800, Osmanthus has been cultivated in China for about 2,500 years, and is still of importance there today.
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Holiday Cactus If your Christmas cactuses have finished blooming don’t throw them away. Christmas cactuses can become long-lived house plants that will bloom year after year. Move them next to a sunny window or place them on your porch or patio throughout the summer and into fall. Christmas cactus is known by the scientific name
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Color in the Garden thru Fall and Winter Popular plants such as, Camellia japonica and Camellia sasanqua, cyclamen, pansies, mums, petunias and snapdragons, are great this time of the year as they bring us colorful flowers, but it can be difficult to keep color in the Fall and Winter garden. How about introducing wildflowers in
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Passionflower Passiflora – commonly known as Maypop, Passionvine or Passionflower, is a vine with unusual and exotic looking blooms. The flower is said to symbolize the crucifixion. It attracts butterflies and humming birds. Blooms in late summer to Fall in red, purple and occasionally all white blooms. This climbing vine is vigorous and uses tendrils
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