| Orange lion's tail and yellow Jerusalem sage vie for attention with pink lavatera and blue Cleveland sage in flower-filled beds. |
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| Suited to all zones, lavatera flowers from mid-July till hard frost in moist, fertile soil. |
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| Forsythia and winter jasmine are also fast growers and so, as they finish flowering can be cut back, although not as hard as the lavatera. |
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| These and plants such as lavatera, buddleia and cistus are generally not worth moving unless they have been in the ground for two or three years. |
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| To add color to a mostly herbal garden, rely on a few shrubs that bloom nearly year-round, such as lavatera and groundcover roses. |
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| Try Virginian stocks, and lavatera, and sunflowers, which all give a really pretty display of flowers. |
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| The ones which flower from early summer onwards including potentilla, lavatera and fuchsia, are the ones that need pruning in early spring, before growth starts. |
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| Easy-to-root plants include lavatera, helianthemum, choisya, deutzia, escallonia, hebe, hydrangea, lavender, philadelphus and weigela, as well as fuchsia and olearia. |
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