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How peculiar: Green cultivars
Its spider-like blooms are made up of delicate pale green petals that are shockingly different from your average warm-hued Amaryllis. It is a hardy in zones 9 and 10, but can function as a potted outdoor plant if it is not overwatered and is brought inside...
California
El Segundo
Bells-of-Ireland: A Lucky Charm for Your Garden
Cut away any leaves, then hang the stalks upside down in a dark, dry and warm location. Once cut, the stems are particularly long-lasting, making them popular for use in a vase. The plant's lightly fragrant white flowers lie like tiny clappers in the...
California
El Segundo
How peculiar: A green flower
You can direct sow these in early- to mid-Spring, depending on your location, or you can refrigerate them for 1-2 weeks before sowing.Spurge is the blue collar, no-fuss-no-muss green flowering plant on the list.
California
El Segundo
Green Grows the Garden
Known colloquially as lady's mantle for the unusual shape of its leaves, this plant grows in neat clumps about a foot high and twice as wide. The leaves offeature an interesting background of silver-green veined with deep purple.
California
El Segundo
Industrial Hemp: Uses Ancient and Modern
Even the U.S. Constitution and the Bill of Rights are printed on hemp paper and first U.S. flag, sewn by Betsy Ross, was made of hemp cloth.There are basically two types of hemp. Hemp usage discussed here is for industrial hemp only.Industrial hemp has...
California
El Segundo
Ox-Eye Daisies: Picking Flowers for My Mom
He loves me not." With each repetition, you pull off a petal, and the last petal gives you your answer. Nonetheless, my father surprises her with a bouquet of Shasta Daisies every year on May Day as well as on their anniversary.
California
El Segundo
Cornflower Blue
At the ends of the branches grow solitary, thistle like, brilliant blue flowerheads. That was the way of the ancients, if it looked like a body part, or was the color of a body part, then it should be beneficial to the body part.
California
El Segundo
Birth Flowers
Other historic references to Iris: she was the Greek goddess of the rainbow, and the Fleur de Lis is a stylized version of the iris. Think how nice a handpicked bouquet of meaningful flowers from your garden would be as a birthday present!Beautiful images...
California
El Segundo
Incredible Edible Flowers
Tired of the same old meat and potatoes? Research has shown that edible flowers have been used by the Roman, Chinese, Middle Eastern and Indian cultures as far back as 25 BC. Go out to your flower garden, you may have just what you need, right under your...
California
El Segundo
Black-Eyed Susan and Other Rudbeckias
Keep rudbeckias dead-headed by pinching off flowering stems at their base. They prefer a site that is moist and well-drained, but will tolerate less-than-ideal soil. Rudbeckia laciniata was among the native wildflowers transplanted to Europe by early...
California
El Segundo
A jaundiced view of yellow
From Agastache to Zinnia, yellow flowers are just easy to come by. No, I love color. There are plenty of more unusualDaffodils come soon after forsythia, often before the snow has completely melted.
California
El Segundo
Antiques of the Flower Garden
And some would much prefer the shade. Take a gander at an antique quilt for color, texture and pattern inspiration.Don't forget to water the flowers as the weather grows hot. Add a dash of the right fertilizer to bring out the best in those blooming beauties.This...
California
El Segundo
More Plants for Less Money 1- Shopping for Clearance Plants
I was kicking myself last year when my half price shrubs sat in the hot sun and had their roots burned in the pots.Don't buy a struggling plant and count on its immediate recovery.may bounce back with a drink of water, but generally assume these things...
California
El Segundo
The Monochromatic Garden-Reds
As long as it has the same tone it will look absolutely divine!There truly is no other color as decadent and delicious as red. Allow them to gently flow into one another as this will permit each tone to meld together effortlessly.
California
El Segundo
Salvia - How to Grow the Easiest Plant in the World
They are wonderful and so easy to grow from cuttings that they are easy for the beginner to learn to start taking cuttings from other plants.Can you ask for a better plant for the garden?
California
El Segundo
First Flowers
When I presented them to her and she saw what I had done, she gave up a small space at a window where I could continue to fret over them and she would smile, for they never really became hers.My first year of college and my first apartment are synonymous...
California
El Segundo
Bidens, Gold Nuggets
Prices start at : 3.99 USD / 1 Pkt. ( 50 seeds)

Produces lavish show of rich, mind-spinning, golden-yellow, daisylike double flowers. Peak performer with trailing stems is impressive in the front of the border, gilding a hanging basket or two, and mingling in a container.
Pennsylvania
Warminster
Annuals You Can Grow
They are simple to grow and love to be in almost any soil. These are many of the classic flowers that we remember from our childhood gardens and a few new friends that you too can grow in your garden to spruce up any flower bed or pot.
California
El Segundo
Get out the vote, but don\'t wait for November! Vote on the American Garden Award by August 31, 2012
This petunia, part of the Surfinia series, needs no pinching or pruning and will do well in containers or beds. I really like this color and the delicate appearance of the flowers.I just want to mention--as this article goes to press, the two front runners...
California
El Segundo
Torenia, the Clown Flower
Moist, organic soil ensures the best growth, and increased flowering and bushiness can be stimulated by frequent pinching. Grow wishbone flower in partial to full shade. Weak trailing stems make them ideal for hanging baskets and other containers as the...
California
El Segundo
Pansy, Panola Pink Shades Mix
Prices start at : 12.99 USD / 4 Plants

The best plant to have in the landscape bed around the house in fall and during the winter months. Perfect companion of spring flowering bulbs. They will burst in color early in the spring and keep color into early summer.
  • Sun: Full Sun
  • Bloom Duration: 12 weeks
  • Ornamental Use: Beds, Borders, Container
  • Life Cycle: Annual
  • Spread: 8-10 inches
Pennsylvania
Warminster
What are annuals?
You dig little holes for your little plants, maybe fertilize a bit, and water when dry. That means some of those annuals, while perfectly good plants, may not be perfectly good forgarden.
California
El Segundo
Calibrachoa -- have you tried them yet?
You may enjoy caressing the fuzzy, faintly aromatic foliage, which, unlike petunia's foliage, is not sticky.In temperate zones, where it freezes in the winter, calibrachoa is grown as an annual.
California
El Segundo
Madagascar Periwinkle Care: Growing Madagascar Rosy Periwinkle Plant
(21-23 C) in around one week.Care should be exercised to ensure a dry garden bed. In the warmer climates, it grows rapidly to a height of up to 2 feet and a similar spread. It is even useful to plant periwinkle in a raised bed or one amended heavily with...
Ohio
Willoughby
Growing Annual Vinca From Seed: Gathering And Germinating Seeds Of Vinca
Watch the plant carefully. Shake the bag every day or two until the pods are completely dry. Place the seeds where temperatures are around 80 F. ), annual vinca is a versatile little stunner with shiny green foliage and blooms of pink, white, rose, red,...
Ohio
Willoughby
South African Foxglove, an easy exotic annual (Ceratotheca triloba)
Gitagal proudly told her Mid-Atlantic buddies about her "discovery." Then in fall she carefully gathered pods form the plant and broke open the capsules to reveal (and save) the seeds.
California
El Segundo
Marigold: Flower of the Aztecs
"Fall in Southern California, Huntington Gardens". 'Durango Red' Plant Files.palmbob. Tagetes Petula. Senator Dirksen's speech to nominate the marigold as the national flower became one of the classic speeches of American history.
California
El Segundo