… SOMBRERO® Flamenco Orange Coneflower SOMBRERO® series is a compact series with a collection of hot colors like yellow, orange, red, and pink. This series is more floriferous than traditional echinacea. It is great addition to the garden beds or large containers for a bright summer display. It has excellent landscape performance and winter hardiness. …
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… SOMBRERO® Granada Gold Echinacea SOMBRERO® series is a compact series with a collection of hot colors like yellow, orange, red, and pink. This series is more floriferous than traditional echinacea. It is great addition to the garden beds or large containers for a bright summer display. It has excellent landscape performance and winter hardiness. …
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… SOMBRERO® Summer Solstice Coneflower SOMBRERO® series is a compact series with a collection of hot colors like yellow, orange, red, and pink. This series is more floriferous than traditional echinacea. It is great addition to the garden beds or large containers for a bright summer display. It has excellent landscape performance and winter hardiness. …
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… SOMBRERO® Rosado Coneflower SOMBRERO® series is a compact series with a collection of hot colors like yellow, orange, red, and pink. This series is more floriferous than traditional echinacea. It is great addition to the garden beds or large containers for a bright summer display. It has excellent landscape performance and winter hardiness. …
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… ( Cosmos atrosanguineus 'Thomocha') perfume the air with the fragrance of chocolate. Plant this nonhardy perennial native of Mexico in full sun after the danger of late frosts has passed; it is insect- and disease-resistant. Once thought to be extinct in the wild, the chocolate cosmos, … In the meantime, long-lost fertile populations have survived in New Zealand gardens for years, as scientists vainly tried to get the one surviving sterile clone at the Royal Botanic …
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… What does it mean for plants? The temperatures have been slowly dropping and sporadic frost has put the brakes on … Frost or Freeze? The typical average date for the first fall frost in the greater Chicago area is October 15. In some years, the first frost happens in September or as late as November. Frost … of mulch around trees, shrubs, and in planting beds to maintain an even soil temperature. This helps to reduce the freeze-and-thaw cycles that cause perennials to heave out of the soil, …
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… This small-statured cultivar features bright red bracts with medium pink spots. It's great for smaller locations. Place this poinsettia in bright, warm locations and water only when the leaves start to droop slightly. Be sure and poke a hole in the bottom of the decorative wrap …
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… Striking plum-violet flowers are accentuated with a bright red eye on this hardy hibiscus cultivar. Dark green leaves provide a backdrop for the flowers. A slightly shorter sized plant adaptable to smaller gardens. Archived Copy: This content was captured before February 2022, and is no longer being updated. …
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… preplanted in a gift box. Those that are not should be planted in a heavy pot, wider than it is tall, with adequate drainage holes. Use a general, lightweight, soilless mix, making sure that … soil medium should be watered thoroughly and then allowed to dry slightly between waterings. This stimulates root growth, which is especially important when keeping the bulb more than one … removed. By this time, the large, green, straplike leaves should have formed. Nourish the bulb for next year's blooming by fertilizing once a month with a dilute 10-10-10 or 20-20-20 mix. Take …
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… out of a rocky wall. A member of the pink family, tunic flower has tiny five-petaled flowers. This loose, airy perennial is covered with dainty pink or white flowers all summer long. A delicate sun-loving perennial for the rock garden. Archived Copy: This content was captured before February 2022, and is no …
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