… deadheading. Then, if you want to save the plants for next year, you can simply dig them up and store them in a damp medium like peat some place where it’s cool (but not freezing cold). …
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… suited to a conservatory or a container. It needs full sun to partial shade, with low humidity and well-drained soil that is kept on the dry side. It produces sprays of small, spherical …
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… foliage, the flowers add a delicate bonus to early summer gardens. Blackout Alumroot was bred and introduced by Dirk Scheys of Belgium in 2008. This plant will work well in shade or sun, with …
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… of the Jingle Bell group, which display deep red bracts randomly punctuated by white spots and splotches. Jingle Bell poinsettias all possess either a red or pink background color with …
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… a clump 10 to 12 inches high. Plant it in full sun to partial shade. It is resistant to deer and hardy in zones 4- 8. …
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… 3-foot-tall by 3-foot-wide tropical shrub flowers best in full to partial sunlight and moist, well-drained soils. …
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… among taller bulbs or along edges. This bulb is not reliably hardy in the Chicagoland area and applying a two inch layer of mulch after the ground freezes in the fall will help protect the …
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… in the 1840's on the way to developing hybrid tea roses. It is a cross between Rosa chinensis and Rosa gigantea . The flower consists of several rows of green bracts that take on a reddish …
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… true flowers protruding from the branch tips. These plants are in the acanthus family and not related to true petunias. …
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… in the south-eastern parts of the US. Hairy mock orange grows to about twelve feet in height and about nine feet in width with a rounded yet open growth habit. In the late spring or early …
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