Since chrysanthemums are among the most widely sold perennials, they are easy to find in bloom almost anywhere this month. |
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Meanwhile, established perennials like phlox, veronica, and yarrow are beginning to bloom. |
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Outside chores consist of checking winter mulches, making sure there are plenty around trees, shrubs and perennials. |
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They can be broadcast or spread over lawns and ground covers, or dug or raked into soil around the root zones of trees, shrubs, and perennials. |
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Because their roots run deep in good soil, cherries are fine trees to underplant with perennials or spring-flowering bulbs. |
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Gene suggests noninvasive perennials such as cranesbill, bleeding heart, and daylilies. |
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Because clematis prefer a cool root environment, plan to underplant with a groundcover or perennials that have shallow, non-invasive roots. |
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Sow seeds of herbaceous perennials and alpine plants in a cold frame or unheated greenhouse. |
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And their color range keeps expanding as plant breeders give more attention to these up-and-coming perennials. |
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Shrubs, perennials, and grasses pack most of the border between screen plants and the lawn. |
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Overlap Christmas tree boughs and evergreen prunings atop beds to protect newly planted and tender perennials and bulbs. |
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Dead nettles are ground cover perennials with leaves that are marked in silver. |
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In dry-winter areas that don't freeze or have much snow, water perennials once a month on a sunny, warm day to keep them alive and healthy. |
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Is it a garden for all seasons with the right balance of flowering perennials and deciduous plants with evergreens to give interest in winter? |
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Many of last year's perennials still have dead flower stalks pointing skyward. |
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Spring is the time to interplant perennials, shrubs, roses and plant or transplant your annuals. |
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Bulbs can also be interplanted in such a way that the summer perennials just coming into leaf will mask the dying foliage of the spring bulbs. |
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We tested for differences in male cyathia production between annuals and perennials. |
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There will be a large selection perennials, bedding plants, pot plants, shrubs, trees, heathers, containers and planters. |
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The mild days and chilly nights extend bloom of summer perennials like columbines and Shasta daisies. |
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Even though all of these are perennials, not all of them grow perennially in all locations. |
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Special trees were planted to create woody perennials to improve the microclimate and increase soil fertility. |
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But let me turn to the other side of the coin this week and look to raising perennials from seed. |
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These hardy perennials, commonly known as Sea Holly or Eryngo, are natives of the damp grasslands of South America. |
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Shaped boxes, standard bays, grasses, herbaceous perennials and ground-cover shrubs can be used in traditional or contemporary settings. |
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In subsequent years, plant additional perennials and grasses to fill gaps and replace annuals. |
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Mrs Browner's love of perennials and petunias began when her gran gave her a patch of garden to look after as a child. |
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Most perennials are adaptable to sun or shade, various soil and water conditions. |
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In autumn she cuts back perennials and wraps roses with insulated shrub cloth. |
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Application of glyphosate to small perennials often controls existing foliage, but regrowth occurs later in the growing crop. |
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Many of the tour participants took this opportunity to purchase annuals, perennials, vegetables, seeds, fertilizer and other garden giftware. |
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The secret to making your flowering trees, shrubs, annuals, and perennials bloom more is in the numbers. |
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Lift and divide any herbaceous perennials that have grown too big or that have died out in the centre. |
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Container gardens are also perfect for perennials, annuals, and summer bulbs such as lilies or dahlias. |
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Growing perennials from seed is inexpensive, especially if you want to cover a large area. |
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My worst weeds are the perennials that spread with runners, like quack grass. |
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This one, fringed with Scotch moss, curves past lilies and other perennials. |
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Planting perennials with different bloom times near each other will insure a garden that has blooms all season long. |
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One group of plants that stands out conspicuously are those lofty and lanky woody perennials, the trees and shrubs. |
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At winter's end and just before new growth begins, cut back perennials and prune evergreens. |
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The Flower Garden near the Orchid House is laid out with beds of flowering annual and perennials. |
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As well as bedding plants, Mrs Malkinson grows a range of herbaceous perennials and alpines which are displayed at her front door. |
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One of the most valuable of these spring flowering perennials is the primula. |
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Take cuttings of tender perennials and annuals that you want to overwinter. |
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Annuals and perennials such as snapdragons, daisies, zinnias, and, of course, peonies and roses are old favorites. |
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Even gardeners are told when their tender perennials are at risk from frost. |
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The following is a list of suggested annuals, perennials and foliage plants. |
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The layout is symmetrical and orderly, which contrasts with the cottagey jumble of perennials and bulbs within the four rectangular beds. |
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These anemones are clump-forming perennials with fountains of rich green leaves to a height of about 40 cm. |
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Her favourite perennials are lilies which put on a show of colour before the annuals get into full swing. |
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If you're brave enough to plant perennials and annuals now, give them extra attention until roots take a strong hold. |
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Fall is a good time to plant cool-season annuals and vegetables, herbs, perennials and trees, too. |
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We think it would be safer for you to divide your perennials in the spring. |
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In fact, there are cases where planting perennials would actually make matters worse. |
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In early spring, fragile perennials, such as foxgloves and delphiniums, take center stage. |
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They look great when planted in clumps and can be grown between shrubs and herbaceous perennials. |
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Cut off dead stalks and leaves from perennials, then top-dress the beds with 2 to 3 inches of compost and a sprinkling of fertilizer. |
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Colourful perennials such as the Flag irises in blue or yellow, Astilbe in feathery pinks and the faithful arum lilies are also suitable. |
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Garden irises are hardy, long-lived perennials that need a minimum of care. |
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Most won't succumb to stem rot as quickly as soft-stemmed perennials, but it can happen just the same. |
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As tender perennials are damaged by frost, remove them and pop in fall-blooming asters, chrysanthemums, and pansies. |
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Plant late-blooming asters behind shorter perennials to hide the damage until they finish blooming. |
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After the first hard freeze, cut back perennials such as aster, campanula, daylily, phlox, and veronica, leaving 6-inch stubs above the ground. |
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Plants in other bed are mainly low-growing, shade-loving perennials, such as the hostas, ferns, and lungworts clustered beneath trees. |
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Creeping perennials, like clover or bracken, seem to move around in the environment. |
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But if you harvest hardy woody perennials such as thyme, savory, and tarragon heavily now, you can weaken the plants. |
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For example, herbaceous perennials such as yarrow, baby's breath and Helenium can be staked with bushy hazel, birch or beech twigs. |
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In addition, they create a clean edge to a planting scheme and disguise the unsightly lower section of many herbaceous perennials. |
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Choose perennials and bulbs that are quick to form intricate root systems, such as chrysanthemums, violets, daffodils and creeping phlox. |
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It involves natural-looking gardens and swathes of grasses mixed with drifts of perennials chosen for their shape, color and hardiness. |
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Use upright perennials such as gerbera, golden marguerite, and snapdragon for exclamation points of color. |
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A showy group of perennials are the hellebores, which can be planted to bloom from around Christmastime to spring. |
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Ornamental grasses make great companions to potted annuals, perennials, herbs, succulents, and broad-leafed plants. |
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There will also be plants grown especially for the vegetable plot as well as herbs, herbaceous perennials and shrubs. |
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Reinvigorated by division, established perennials typically produce more and larger flowers. |
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There are numerous sedums, and some are spreaders while others are upright perennials. |
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Finally, dead stems and seed heads left over winter on perennials can be cut off and tidied up this month. |
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These work well with pots of perennials such as thrift Armeria alliacea alternated with creeping Gypsophila repens. |
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Reaching for the skies with perennials, vines, ornamentals, and trees is one way of bringing new levels to your landscape. |
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As an adventurous gardener, you're probably quite familiar with a number of the beardtongues, a popular group of garden perennials. |
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The vegetative tissues of perennials may also be systemically less sensitive to senescence signals. |
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Pink daffodils are set off to perfection by perennials with foliage in supporting colors. |
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Cut back perennials to within 8 to 10 inches of the ground after the tops die back or leave them uncut for protection against the cold. |
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If planting them among other landscape ornamentals, locate them well away from tall-growing shrubs or perennials. |
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We also grow herbs, perennials, shrubs and ornamentals without using toxins. |
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In summer, traditional perennials take over, and peonies, irises and hemerocallis fill the flowery brook. |
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Herbaceous perennials, such as quackgrass, mugwort, and Canada thistle, die back to the ground each year. |
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Dig up and store tender bulbs from your summer garden, and cut back the worn-out perennials and biennials. |
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Primroses are members of the genus Primula and can be perennials, biennials, or tender annuals. |
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Among the hardy perennials, quatrains and sonnets, we encounter such exotic metrical cultivars as sapphics and cretics. |
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Wildflowers and native plants also may be classified as annuals, biennials or perennials. |
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Border carnations are those varieties typically grown outdoors by gardeners either as perennials, biennials, or annuals. |
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They can be either annuals, biennials, or perennials, depending on their species. |
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It is dominated by hostas, peonies, campanula, and daylilies but holds a wealth of perennials and self-sowing annuals. |
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I started using perennials and color bowls to add a vibrant rainbow of showy flowers. |
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While herbaceous perennials are best grown together in a border, they work just as well grouped in patio tubs and pots. |
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There, after tilling and amending the soil, he planted roses, perennials, and a smattering of seasonal tubers, such as dahlias and tuberoses. |
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Less invasive kinds, such as black-eyed Susan vine, can even weave themselves among other annuals and perennials, creating a wild look. |
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Seeds of most hardy perennials, including bleeding hearts, columbines, phlox, and primulas, require a period of chilling to germinate. |
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Many pinks are hardy perennials, while others are half-hardy and grown as annuals. |
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Tall perennials will look and fare better if they are staked or tied up to avoid slumping over on the ground. |
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Further, like practically all perennials, Delphinium clamps gradually develop more numerous spikes and smaller flowers. |
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With protection, annual vegetables and flowers thrive, as do wind-tolerant perennials like buckwheats, grasses, and penstemons. |
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The genus Pilea, a member of the family Urticaceae, contains over 200 species of herbaceous perennials and annuals found in the tropics except Australia. |
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Annuals and biennials like sunflowers, cornflowers, wallflowers, forget me not and perennials like Michaelmas daisies are also good for the bird-feeding garden. |
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Ten days before, a Tuesday, after she had watered her ferns and perennials, she stood watering the aloe vera plant at her east window, her window facing the street. |
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The beds are planted with a wide range of trees and shrubs, including acers, camellias, rhododendrons, oaks and beeches, beneath which grow choice perennials and bulbs. |
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This results in flora including birch trees, acacias, jessamine, wayfaring trees, crocuses, snowdrops, water lilies, and several grey-leaved perennials. |
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If perennials like agapanthus, candytuft, coreopsis, daylilies, and penstemon are overgrown or not flowering well, it's time to dig and divide them. |
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The gardens emphasize native plants, perennials and trees, with accents provided by soft hues of roses, oleander, rhododendrons, agapanthus and more. |
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Hellebore foliage combines well with other shade-loving perennials like wild ginger, cyclamen or Pulmonaria, as well as with bulbs such as snowdrops or miniature daffodils. |
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If primulas are not your thing, plant up your window box with perennials. |
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Our house's previous owner was a wizard with perennials and it was a thrill our first spring there to watch the yard be transformed by unexpected blossoms. |
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We have a scented country garden and pond, water features, gravel gardens, arbours, pergolas, a summerhouse, many rare and unusual perennials, and 120 clematis. |
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Wildflowers are either self-sowing annuals, biennials or perennials. |
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Huge specimens of eucalyptus, eucryphias, magnolias and rhododendrons are underplanted with unusual shrubs and choice perennials like Trilliums, Arisaema and blue poppies. |
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We lost these perennials here in Zone 6 during an unusually bad winter. |
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Climbing plants and tall perennials will need to be tied in and supported. |
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If you want a knot garden in your own space, stack the central spaces in the middle of your evergreen outline now with as many herbaceous perennials as you can. |
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The upper bed is mostly for perennials, including red-and-white columbines, purple blue campanulas, and tall blue delphiniums fronted by yellow and orange Iceland poppies. |
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Tillage with a chisel plow, disk, or field cultivator may actually help spread perennials with creeping root systems, such as Canada thistle and hemp dogbane. |
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While few perennials are doing anything significant when the hellebores bloom in late winter and early spring, flower combinations can be easily made with some early bulbs. |
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Common bulbs planted in the fall for the spring are tulips, daffodils, hyacinths, muscari, crocuses and perennials such as peonies, daylilies, hostas, and coral-bells. |
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Busy Lizzies, fuchsias, pelargoniums, cosmos and petunia will all provide colour until late summer and can be used to fill gaps left by perennials as they finish blooming. |
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When most other perennials stop blooming, asters are just getting started. |
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Some may prove to be annuals, others short-lived perennials. |
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I have found them to be short-lived perennials that go dormant in summer. |
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Or use in combination with other sun-loving annuals or perennials. |
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The clippers are also useful for deadheading flowers on herbaceous perennials such as coreopsis and lavender, but they should never be used to cut tough, woody growth. |
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Species are annuals, biennials or rhizomatous perennials and have dimorphic cypselae with the ray fruit lacking a well developed crown of bristles. |
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Established plants can be moved, of course, and autumn is as good a time as any to relocate herbaceous perennials, deciduous shrubs and small trees. |
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While the peonies described above are herbaceous perennials, an interesting variation of the genus are the tree peonies, deciduous shrubs with lovely foliage and flowers. |
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This is also a prime time to plant shade-loving perennials such as colorful columbines and dicentras, with their unusual bleeding-heart-shaped flowers. |
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Any good book on planting design will list trees, shrubs, ground cover plants, climbers and herbaceous perennials suitable for a wide range of conditions and situations. |
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Replace with good-quality topsoil and either fill with hardy annual seeds, perennials like thyme and houseleeks or even a small shrub. |
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Closely related is erigeron glaucus Sea Breeze, one of the best salt resistant perennials for seaside gardens. |
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The strength of the nursery is in propagating hardy perennials such as geraniums, violas, geums and eryngiums, and a whole lot more. |
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Yet, they are true perennials, hardy as daylilies, but they are frost-tender. |
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If perennials like coreopsis, daylilies, and penstemon are overgrown or not flowering well, dig and divide them. |
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I''m not talking about thugs like leyland cypress, but hardy herbaceous perennials which can reach 6ft in a year, then die down in winter. |
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Among the perennials, lavender cotton, lamb's ears, sage, and other fuzzy-leaf, gray-colored plants are left alone. |
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Take basal cuttings from perennials including campanula, kniphofia, lupins, delphiniums and phlox. |
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If the ground isn't too wet, plant herbaceous perennials including geranium, astrantia and oriental poppies. |
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Many perennials are making or preparing to make their show, including shasta daisy, liatris, penstemon, salvia and astilbe. |
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Even without one, you can grow perennials such as aquilegias, anchusas and primulas. |
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Sow seeds of perennials including hardy geraniums, achilleas and alstroemerias outside in shallow drills. |
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Continue deadheading perennials like Alstroemeria, chrysanthemums, and Echinacea to encourage flowering. |
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Easy-to-grow perennials which don't demand much attention but will flower throughout summer include wild geranium, crocosmia and helenium. |
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A few rushes, such as Juncus bufonius are annuals, but most are perennials. |
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Over time perennials and small trees including the apple and the olive were domesticated. |
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Another favorite perennial is the daylily, one of the most ubiquitous perennials in the American landscape. |
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Most of the commercially important crops are perennials, such as cacao, coconut, oranges, bananas and sugar cane. |
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Herbs can be perennials such as thyme or lavender, biennials such as parsley, or annuals like basil. |
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Early summer flowering perennials such as doronicums and aquilegias tend to attract mildew at this time of year. |
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These hardy perennials are also used as groundcover on banks, between shrubs or under roses. |
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So it's good to combine with early perennials such as brunnera, aquilegia, forget-me-not and dicentra. |
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Good plant partners include annuals such as Gilia tricolor, Iceland poppies or salvias, or perennials including alchemilla and catmint. |
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Helenium THESE bright perennials are ideal for pepping up a border when other summer scorchers are past their best. |
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Cindy Buck got her start as a gardener when a friend gave her and her husband, Rob, a whole gardenful of divided perennials as a wedding present. |
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Rosemary and sage also look good with silver foliage perennials in the seaside garden, while cistus and helianthemums do well if sheltered. |
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Fibrously rooted perennials such as hostas, Hemerocallis and asters, are best divided using two forks placed back-toback. |
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All the annuals and perennials that have or are flowering should be deadheaded. |
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Reseeders can also be variously divided into monocarpic ephemerals, polycarpic ephemerals, herbaceous perennials, and woody plants. |
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Divide perennials such as daylily and yarrow, then plant in bare spots in the garden. |
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Fill gaps left between spring and summer with tender perennials and easy-to-grow annuals including cosmos, nigella and pot marigold. |
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I was thinking along the lines of a vegetable garden, but I could be persuaded to include some perennials. |
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Native to southern Africa, these perennials, which grow from corms, thrive in well-drained soil amended with compost. |
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You can keep nonwoody annuals and perennials flowering by using two simple techniques. |
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This technique can be used on many fast growing perennials including nemesias, diascias and osteospermum. |
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Mulching perennials helps guard them against frost heave in spring and protects roots against dangerous winter temperatures. |
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Both species are small, herbaceous perennials with linear-spatulate leaves and white, four-petaled flowers, arranged in a raceme. |
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If the space is sunny, plant a mix of vibrant perennials such as catmint, lavender, lion's tail, penstemon, and Santa Barbara daisy. |
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Useful in wide borders with other robust perennials, such as Michaelmas daisies and lavenders. |
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Penstemon x gloxinioides Fine with salvias, lavenders, gaura, and 'Apple Blossom' other drought-tolerant perennials. |
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The earliest successional species were common ruderal annuals followed by perennials, Solidago altissima and Symphyotrichum pilosum. |
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The flowers, a mixture of annuals and perennials, include calendula Daisy Mixed, cornflower Midget Mixed and rudbeckia Toto Rustic. |
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As far as perennials go, this year I've been planting ligularia which is a versatile plant. |
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This includes traditional perennials such as Mayonnaise, Tartare and Cocktail, but also a few novel, exotic discoveries such as Brasil, Banzai and Pitta. |
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To divide fleshy rooted perennials such as Zantedeschia, Rheum, Arthropodium and ornamental grasses, the best approach is to employ a sharp knife. |
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Chapters tell how to seed plants until they bloom, how to choose optimum plants for harvesting seeds, and how to raise vegetables, biennial and perennials, and more. |
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As for rock plants themselves, there are thousands of perennials and small shrubs to choose from, including a host of dianthus, saxifrages, sedums, and sempervivums. |
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In botany and horticulture, deciduous plants, including trees, shrubs and herbaceous perennials, are those that lose all of their leaves for part of the year. |
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Age of maturity and life span in herbaceous, polycarpic perennials. |
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Eleven perennials will be installed, including Autumn Goldenrod, Black Eyed Susan, Blue Ice Star Flower, Heavy Metal Switch Grass, and Spike Gayfeather. |
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First-year flowering perennials which can be sown early in heated propagators then grown on in a greenhouse or cool room include achillea, helenium, echinacea and salvia. |
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And like Dickey, you can throw in reliable bulbs and the lowest care perennials, too, of course, plants such as cranesbills, lenten roses and epimediums. |
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The oldest known confirmed fossil remains of the Lythraceae are Late Cretaceous herbaceous to suffrutescent perennials of moist to aquatic habitats. |
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What I also know is that such perennials as polyanthus, pansies, primula etc are not frost tender and it's these which are thrown onto the compost heaps. |
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Agroforestry is a land use system in which woody perennials like trees and shrubs are grown along with crops thus reducing dependency on one crop variety. |
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To give the grasses some more punch, Lamont added small-flowered perennials that you might expect to find in a meadow, such as asters, coreopsis, globe mallow, and toadflax. |
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Under taller shrubs and roses plant good ground cover perennials such as wild geranium or Alchemilla mollis, and take note of the atmosphere you want to create through colour. |
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While bindweed snakes its way through borders and up hedges, ground elder is emerging from under my neighbour's fence and couch grass is appearing amid perennials and shrubs. |
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It may help to review the reasons why winter mulches of evergreen branches, salt marsh hay, or other weed-free mulches are applied over perennials and spring bulbs. |
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Other products are sold to regional growers nationwide include broad leaf evergreens and flowering plants, such as kalmias, azaleas, lilacs and perennials. |
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Deep snow cover protects perennials by stabilizing soil temperature and woody plant root activity but provides protection for mice and mole activity. |
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Heleniums and sneezeworts, are some of the easiest perennials to divide. |
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Perennials continue to grow and produce blooms for many years to come without reseeding or replanting. |
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Perennials such as iris or hemerocallis will show a noted decrease in blooms over the years if they are not divided. |
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Perennials can be protected with sackcloth and placed in an area where they are less exposed to the elements. |
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Perennials like geraniums are the seasonal stars of gardens all around the country at the moment. |
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Perennials are widely available from both local nurseries and garden centers and a burgeoning number of mail-order catalogs. |
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Perennials can be planted among shrub borders or in containers. |
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Perennials that I recommend include daylilies, astilbe, rudbeckia, yarrow, foxglove, lobelia and much more. |
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Perennials which benefit from dividing every few years include hostas, cranesbill geranium, montbretia, rudbeckia, helenium and aster. |
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