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Contributed by amazon 02.04. 2007 10:35:14 Topic: Other / Books While gardeners may be happy enough with their gardens in spring and early summer, few feel so confident about prolonging the display. Thankfully, Late Summer Flowers shows how to extend the blooming season. By choosing plants that have a late flowering season, or offer such bonuses as attractive foliage, seedheads, or berries, it is possible to get the best from the garden in late summer and autumn. ...
Contributed by havlis 07.06. 2008 06:42:32 Topic: Plants / Perennials Praecox is earlier than other summer blooming anemones. It often starts flowering already in early August and continues until end September. It has 40-60 cm long stalks with up to 15 flowers of deep pink colour, 4-6 cm wide. The outter petals are slightly darker which makes another interesting dimension of the bloom. 3-palmate basal leaves are mid to dark green, sharply toothed, sparsely hairy beneath. ...
Contributed by amazon 15.10. 2007 20:42:51 Topic: Plants / Climber Plants Liven up your hanging basket, container plantings, or trellis this summer with this easy to grow Clematis. Flowering in only three months from sowing, you can use Korean Beauty almost anywhere, plus as a hardy perennial it will come back year after year. The nodding, rich yellow blooms are followed by attractive feathery seed heads. Climber to 9 feet. Blooms summer to autumn, prefers full sun to light shade. Hardy perennial in zones 5-9. Start seeds now. ...
Contributed by amazon 05.07. 2007 14:36:25 Topic: Plants / Perennials Gaura The Bride forms a mat of soft foliage that contrasts beautifully with the delicate white flowers held on long thin stems. It suits natural style plantings. This makes it a good plant for a cottage garden, informal borders or flowering ground cover. Its lax growth habit makes it particularly useful for filling in gaps in the border and linking other planting groups together. It has a long flowering season that lasts from early summer well into autumn. ...
Contributed by havlis 27.05. 2008 10:42:28 Topic: Plants / Deciduous Shrubs Weigelas are valuable garden shrubs that grow freely in almost any soil and require little maintenance. They are deciduous shrubs growing 1.5 – 2.0 tall and just a bit less wide. Leaves are ovate to oval. Bell or funnel shaped flowers come in many colours and appear at the end of spring / beginning of summer and sporadically towards the end of summer. ...
Contributed by amazon 18.09. 2007 10:36:57 Topic: Plants / Biennials Match on Article's textThis Old-Fashioned Striped Favorite Can Really Take the Heat! Masses of 2-inch lavender blooms,striped with purple, all summer long! This delightful charmer looks like it came from Grandmothers garden (and it probably did!), with soft lavender blooms merrily striped and scored in deep purple. The neatly-spaced petals have a notched form reminiscent of four-leaved clover, and the merry white eye completes the effect of whimsical charm and exquisite detail! Masses of these 2-inch blooms arise alon ...
Contributed by havlis 06.09. 2011 11:41:49 Topic: Plants / Deciduous Shrubs Match on Article's textNeed a tree flowering in summer , ideally with an exotic look? Then chitalpa is the best choice! This beautiful and hardy hybrid was created in 1964 in Uzbekistan . It is a cross between Desert Willow with rather exotic flowers and northern Catalpa . ...
Contributed by amazon 09.08. 2007 08:34:09 Topic: Plants / Perennials Match on Article's textProper Name: Globe Thistle (Echinops ritro). Soft Violet-Blue Globes on Tall, Vigorous Plants! Blooms all summer! Splendid in dried arrangements! A mass of bobbing Globe Thistles, their softly-colored heads adding valuable blue color to the garden, is a spectacular sight in the summer sun! Ranging in size from 1 to 1 3/4 inches across, they are a gentle violet-blue, with a fuzzy appearance that adds to the soft, calming effect of the tall heads. ...
Contributed by havlis 22.03. 2008 16:45:21 Topic: Plants / Bulbs Match on Article's textAndrea Atkinson is a later variety of anemone. It has 60-80 cm long stalks with snow-white camellia-like flowers with distinct yellow stamens. It starts blooming at the end of summer and continues until October. 3-palmate basal leaves are mid to dark green, sharply toothed, sparsely hairy beneath. ...
Contributed by havlis 07.06. 2008 06:23:34 Topic: Plants / Perennials Match on Article's textMonkshood is a showy perennial flowering in summer. The flowers are indigo blue, formed in erect racemes on stems that can be 1.5 tall. Individual flowers open up from July and continue as the stems grow taller until end August. Leaves are deeply lobed, almost dissected, mid green, very ornamental. A favourite cut flower. ...
Contributed by amazon 30.06. 2007 10:52:43 Topic: Other / Software, DVD Match on Article's textIn this fact-filled DVD, hosts Peter Seabrook and Anne Swithinbank show how you can produce more roses and better plants than ever before! You will learn to plant bare root and container grown bushes for long-term flowering, the right timing and correct techniques for pruning, the importance of fertilizers for plant growth and flowering, how to select and use products for pest and disease control, why summer deadheading is more than just the removal of faded flowers, and much more! Author, journ ...
Contributed by havlis 08.02. 2008 10:14:27 Topic: Plants / Deciduous Trees Match on Article's textMeczek is a special variety of flowering ash with a compact, mop-shaped, round crown that does not have to be trimmed to maintain its shape. It was selected in Hungary in 1980´s. ...
Contributed by havlis 04.02. 2010 10:25:00 Topic: Plants / Deciduous Trees Match on Article's textNot many trees bloom in mid or even late summer when all the spring flowering beauties have only leaves. Golden-rain tree is one of the few. In late July/early August upto 30 cm long panicles of small, bright yellow flowers appear on this medium sized tree. The flowers can remain on the tree for as long as one month. They are followed by bladder-like pink or red-flushed fruit capsules. ...
Contributed by havlis 22.03. 2008 17:01:10 Topic: Plants / Perennials Match on Article's textHow about a garden orchid? If you like unusual plants look at this princess from China. It is a hardy plant that can be planted outdoors down to USDA zone 5. Typically orchid-like flowers are magenta or lavender pink, 4-5 cm wide, borne at tips of 15-25 cm long stems. There can be 6-12 flowers on each stem. It starts flowering in June and continues for about a month. ...
Contributed by abies 01.11. 2007 18:16:14 Topic: Plants / Deciduous Trees Match on Article's textThis is one of the most popular and hardiest ornamental cherry trees available. A vigorous deciduous small to medium-sized tree with an upright habit when young and wider canopy when older. In spring the tree is laden with large double, purplish-pink showy flowers shortly before the bronze foliage appears. Leaves are large, ovate to narrow-ovate, with margins toothed. ...
Contributed by amazon 03.09. 2007 09:16:16 Topic: Plants / Grass, Grasses Match on Article's textHuge rounded mound of broad arching leaves with golden-bronze arching plumes in summer. Grows 7 feet tall. The Golden Plume Pampas Grass has a finer foliage than the Pink and White Pampas Grasses, and is earlier flowering (July into August). ...
Contributed by amazon 16.09. 2008 08:34:54 Topic: Plants / Perennials Match on Article's textIndain Physics ( Gillenia trifoliata ) Airy, bush forming plant with green lanceolate foliage. A great plant for the landsaping if multiple plants are used. Gillenia perfroms best in partial shade of rull sun in a moist well drained soil. ...
Contributed by amazon 30.06. 2007 10:06:09 Topic: Plants / Perennials Match on Article's textType: Herbaceous perennial, Flowers: Lavender, Comments: Azure Fairy Fleabane blooms from mid-summer into fall. Set the plants 12 inches apart in a sunny area and any well-drained soil. The plant can be used in light, sandy soil. Remove the old flowers as they fade to obtain additional flowering. It also makes a good cut flower. Propagation: Propagate by division in spring or fall. ...
Contributed by havlis 06.07. 2012 11:14:26 Topic: Plants / Deciduous Trees Match on Article's textSpring in the garden is announced by flowering Japanese cherries . Amanogawa is a fantastic variety with narrowly columnar growth. In early spring it produces masses of double or semi-double, light pink flowers that may turn to clear white later. Young leaves are bronze, changing to green in summer, and yellow with purple veins in the autumn. It never spreads to sides which makes it ideal for even the smallest of gardens. Being an early bloomer we suggest placing it in front of evergreen shrubs ...
Contributed by amazon 04.12. 2007 11:46:12 Topic: Plants / Tropical and Subtropical Plants Match on Article's textThe Mickey Mouse Plant, Ochna serrulata , is a well known garden shrub that grows to about 9 feet high. Originally a native of southern Africa, Ochna has small, single yellow flowers that bloom in late spring to summer. A useful garden plant, in cooler regions it can also be grown as a patio plant, outside during the summer and indoors during the winter. ...
Contributed by amazon 09.08. 2007 08:50:23 Topic: Plants / Perennials Match on Article's textSynonyms:Aruncus sylvester, Spiraea aruncus, Spiraea paniculata. Great drifts of lacy white for summer! 5-Foot Feathery Plumes of Airy White! Looks delicate, but has a tough, vigorous nature! The secret is out--this Goats Beard is a landscaping dream! Vigorous and bold, it is ideal for the back of the border where its large, wispy plumes of soft ivory float like clouds above the foliage. It is also great at the edge of the water, naturalized in a meadow or woodland setting, or even as a backdrop ...
Contributed by amazon 28.08. 2007 12:19:53 Topic: Plants / Perennials Match on Article's textGolden Queen Globe Flower - Trollius chinensis Golden Queen Family: Ranunculaceae Origin: The species is native to China and Russia. Deep golden yellow flowers. AGM WINNER! Does not like hot, humid conditions. Cut back fading foliage in mid-summer. The moist perennial border, wildflower garden or bog garden. Can be used for cutflowers. ...
Contributed by havlis 20.02. 2008 09:17:04 Topic: Plants / Deciduous Shrubs Match on Article's textDiana has large, pure white blossoms without the purple eye, so typical for hibiscus. This makes it a very elegant flowering shrub that is popular in Californian style where masses of green leaves come first and then attractive flowers, preferable of one colour. And white remains the top favourite. ...
Contributed by havlis 01.08. 2011 11:48:12 Topic: Plants / Deciduous Shrubs Match on Article's textBluebeard is an attractive shrub with rare late summer/early autumn flowering . In colder zones it is supposed to be a perennial rather than a woody shrub as it may freeze down to the ground. ...
Contributed by havlis 07.06. 2008 07:23:34 Topic: Plants / Perennials Match on Article's textThread leaf coreopsis is a wonderful, maintenance-free perennial which shines its way through any garden with rich-coloured flowers all summer long. You can have a country garden or be a town-garden enthusiast, coreopsis will still have features suitable for your plot. ...
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