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| The beds burst at the seams with summer phlox, Shasta daisies, coneflowers, and 75 varieties of daylilies. |
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| Meanwhile, established perennials like phlox, veronica, and yarrow are beginning to bloom. |
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| Spring-blooming wildflowers are the broad-leaved spiderwort, downy yellow violet, and hairy phlox. |
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| Set out transplants of campanula, candytuft, catmint, coreopsis, delphinium, dianthus, foxglove, penstemon, phlox, salvia, and yarrow. |
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| Primula foliage is still as crisp as lettuce, the creeping phlox looks as good as new, and so does the evergreen candytuft. |
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| For red choose from annual phlox, celosia, dahlia, flowering tobacco, geranium, petunia, Salvia coccinea, or scarlet sage. |
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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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| If you pick perennial plants, like the alpine phlox or gazania, then you can divide them and propagate them throughout the border. |
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| Nestled in the alpine tundra are countless dwarf plants with names like phlox, moss campion, and forget-me-not. |
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| The pretty pink of alpine phlox is an attractive border and the plants can be divided and planted again and again. |
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| Among the other flowers in the 10,000-odd pots were dahlias, snapdragons, phlox and petunias. |
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| I planted tall perennial phlox and purple coneflowers behind the Jupiter's-beard to provide color and nectar in July and August. |
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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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| Peonies, irises, daylilies, and delphiniums peak as phlox come into bud and astilbes begin to light up shady garden spots. |
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| Creeping phlox, thyme and aubrietia grow between terrace stones, in typical English fashion, next to a creeping bent lawn. |
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| Bright red salvias, phlox, anthurium and balsam flower in profusion in neat rows, and no wonder Thangam won the first prize for her garden. |
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| At this time of year, hikers can be on the alert for early buttercups, shooting stars in the foothills and moss phlox. |
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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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| Native wildflowers such as black-eyed susans and phlox also bring them in, as does the aptly named bee balm, a hardy, spreading perennial that Native Americans used for tea. |
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| Some of these are hosta, lily of the valley, creeping phlox, Japanese spurge, periwinkle, bugleweed, sweet woodruff, thyme and creeping juniper. |
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| Violets, wild geranium, mayapple, and blue phlox bloom in April and May. |
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| The best nectar choices for adult butterflies are dogbane, asters, milkweed, goldenrod, fleabane, thistle, peony, lupine, vetch, and phlox. |
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| The excised design of stems and foliage is glazed with a rich green and blue, while the phlox flowers at the top and lower sides of the panels have a pale ocher glaze. |
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| There's Tutti Frutti, a new lupin with bicoloured flower spikes, Tequila Sunrise, a bronze foliaged antirrhinum, and Creme Brulee, a new phlox, all from Thompson and Morgan. |
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| If a yellow spike of mullein decided to grow in a clump of bright pink phlox, he welcomed it. |
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| It also is known for its flowering plants, which include a large number of multicoloured seasonals: chrysanthemums, phlox, violas, and verbenas. |
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| Common species include phlox, lupines, cinquefoils, larkspurs, and Indian paintbrushes. |
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| The salvia has receded, but the radicchio is still coming up, and I have phlox and pincushions, and there's an evergreen and some holly there in the back. |
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| Many are loved for their guarantee of flowers and air of luxury, and include such favourites as lupins, heleniums, aster and phlox. |
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| Plant phlox in a sunny spot where it isn't crowded by other plants. |
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| Wildflowers such as trillium, jack-in-the-pulpit, mayapple, and phlox abound, as do many domesticated species. |
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| The mixed borders are a color-themed mass of lilies, phlox, cleome, snakeroot, monkshead and the like in shades of pink, white, mauve and purple. |
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| Hanging planters also make a good home for anything that will trail and spill over, such as ivies and creeping phlox, especially if the planter is hanging above eye level. |
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| Other country garden style purples include stock, phlox, gladioli, monkshood and oldfashioned roses, such as amnesia or pacific blue. |
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| Plants that will benefit from this include heleniums, sedums, rudbeckia, phlox and solidago. |
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| By the third week of June, the tundra is transformed by the colours of many blossoming arctic wildflowers, including arctic lupine, moss campion, purple saxifrage, mountain avens, siberian phlox, and lapland rosebay. |
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| As we went along, LaFleur pointed out tiny, divine, pink ladyAAEs slipper orchids, blue woodland phlox and yellow trout lilies. |
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| Good companions The poker-like blooms stand out well among round flowers such as phlox and any daisylike blooms. |
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| Columbine, wood phlox and wild geranium would do well in a small yard, in light to full shade, Mr. Morrison said, and would also work in large pots. |
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| Fireweed, columbine, salvia, day-lily, trumpet honeysuckle, cardinal-flower, delphinium, blazing-star, phlox, and wild geranium are some of their favourites. |
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| The beds adjoining the Cameron complex are glorious, and unlike most of the other Russian gardens I visited, they had something in bloom aside from impatiens, ageratum and phlox. |
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| Typical perennials are hollyhocks, columbines, bellflowers, chrysanthemums, delphiniums, pinks, coralbells, phlox, poppies, primroses, and speedwells. |
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| Herbaceous potentillas can be planted in front to hide the bare phlox stems. |
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| Tomato, cucumber and peppers are labelled vegetable crops, with the product also deemed suitable for a wide range of ornamentals, including poinsettia, hydrangea, African daisy, phlox, bee balm and flowering dogwood. |
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| These include blue columbine, snow buttercup, and pink phlox. |
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| Take basal cuttings from perennials including campanula, kniphofia, lupins, delphiniums and phlox. |
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| Favourites include aubrieta, Alyssum saxatile, campanula, helianthemum, phlox and lithospermum. |
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| Suitable specimens are heleniums, sedums, rudbeckias, echinaceas, solidagos and phlox. |
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| Pulsatillas and eryngium, Alpine phlox, saxifrages, gentians, dianthus and auriculas love it here. |
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| Honeysuckle, bougainvillaea and jasmine ramble round the lower trunks over phlox, nasturtium and hollyhocks, all in full bloom in February. |
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| Pair orangey-yellow day lilies with sweetly fragrant phlox and burnt orange Helenium 'Moerheim Beauty' with long-flowering purple Aster frikatii. |
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| It would be a different story, though, if my phlox suffered from stem eelworm. |
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| Some easy-to-grow spring ephemerals are bloodroot, woodland phlox, Virginia bluebell, shooting star, Solomon's seal, Jacob's ladder, fire pink, trillium, and foamflower. |
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Examples from Classical Literature
| Tall snapdragons and lilies and sweet-williams and phlox in the garden-beds. |
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| This had, for two or three days, disputed the ground with the lupine and phlox. |
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| This is the zone of rhododendron, shushula, phlox, and painted brush. |
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| This belongs to the Polemoniace family, and is the phlox Cspitosa. |
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| On June 10th, carnations, phlox, and eschscholtzia were in full bloom. |
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| Jaz Balgan, Ruislip, Middlesex AIT'S a phlox, more specifically night phlox. |
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| Take cuttings of rock plants, such as aubrieta, alyssum, phlox, thyme and dianthus. |
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| Take cuttings from dianthus, achilleas, dwarf phlox and saxifrages for the rock garden. |
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| She was flying near a piazza where there were some phlox plants. |
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| Verbascum, primula, Japanese anemones, acanthus, oriental poppies and phlox are all suitable species for this method. |
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| Asters, butterfly bush, verbenas, zinnias, goldenrods, garden phlox, impatiens, purple coneflower and marigolds are among the flowers they like. |
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| Adults nectar from flowers including blackberry, wild strawberry, Japanese honeysuckle, wild hyacinth, phlox, vervain, and red clover. |
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| To phlox, the novelist, she was always conscientiously brilliant. |
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| A few whiffs of the raw, strong scent of phlox invigorated her. |
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| I have found primroses, phlox, and mertensia on the summit of Long's Peak. |
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| Alpine phlox IF there's anything that will brighten up a rockery or provide a cascade of colour tumbling over walls, it's the profusion of flowers from dwarf phlox. |
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| This year's scene includes fragrant evergreens, blooming rhododendrons, daffodils, maidenhair ferns, creeping phlox, spring heath, heather and primroses. |
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| A flush of blush ALMOST as ubiquitous as the phlox here are astrantias. |
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| Think spring by making a woodland garden using shade-tolerant wildflowers such as bloodroot, bleeding hearts, marsh mallow, Solomon's seal and wood phlox. |
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