Zinnia Hot Flowers for a Hot Summer Garden For sunny beds or containers, choose periwinkle, melampodium, blue daze, purslane, portulaca, pentas, torenia, perennial verbena, salvias, sun-tolerant coleus, lantana, zinnia, marigold, abelmoschus, globe amaranth, cosmos, balsam, celosia plumbago, black-eyed susan, purple cone flower and vinca . For shady and partly shady beds and containers, choose impatiens, […]
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Pentas, Torenia and Coleus are very reliable annuals for color during our summer heat. May is here! It is time for warm season plants. Before you start shopping and planting, examine your garden. Different microclimates exist. Evaluate the conditions of moisture, air and light. A wet spot suits some plants, but not others. A container
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Chrysanthemums are “Short-Day plants,” and will start blooming only when nights reach a certain duration. While September can still be excruciatingly hot, it is during this month that we start really noticing the days getting shorter and can perhaps glimpse some end in sight to Summer. Certain plants in our gardens are sensitive to this
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The Giant Swallowtail lays it’s eggs on Citrus trees While the high temperatures outside in July and August may not agree with us humans too well, insects are a-buzz this time of year and it’s a great time to observe the many forms of insect life in your garden. Many kinds of flies, bees and
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