The Ultimate Pleasure Of Growing Flowers

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Stachys Byzantina Wooly hedgenettle

This wonderfully old-fashioned wild perennial, with its fine, silver-gray, furry foliage, will form dense, light-colored carpets wherever relatively small open sites with well-drained, moderately fertile subsoil need covering. In early summer, hairy stems thrust up from the rosettes of leaves and produce wooly, pink-purple flowers. This undemanding, attractive ornamental foliage plant has many uses–in front of trees and shrubs, on banks, in the cottage garden or herbaceous bed, and as a reliable ground cover plant that is not too invasive.

Strelitzia Reginae Bird-of-paradise flower

The bizarre, beak-like orange, yellow, blue flowers of S. reginae are reminiscent of the heads of exotic birds, which is where it got its common name, the bird-of-paradise flower. It is not just the flowers that are decorative, but also the blue-green, long- stemmed, oval leaves, elongated toward the tips. This extremely attractive and easy-going exotic–in cold regions traditionally grown as a pot plant–can spend the summer outside. However, as temperatures below 50°F (10°C) should be avoided, it needs to overwinter in a protected, cool, and bright spot.

Symphytum Grandiflorum Syn. S. Ibericum “Hidcote Blue” Comfrey

The incredibly vigorous, rather coarse-looking wild perennial S. grandiflorum is a good ground cover plant for areas of the yard where other plants find it hard to cope: humus, rich in nutrients, shady borders or beneath trees which don’t let much light through. “Hidcote Blue” has attractive, veined foliage and beautiful, tubular, pale blue flowers, which open from red buds in the spring.

Stipa Calamagrosti’s Spear grass

A blue-green grass that shows its true qualities as a garden design element in summer when its feathery panicles with numerous creamy- yellow, shimmering flower heads emerge. It brings a touch of graceful movement to rock gardens or perennial borders with its cheerfully swaying flowering plumes and is a great plant for softening and covering up any harsh landscaping lines in the yard. In fall, its I color remains enchanting This deciduous, tufted grows quite slowly, in sunny locations in well drained soil moderately rich in nutrients. To display it at its best, S calamagrostis needs of space; therefore, neighboring plants should not be planted close proximity. Otherwise, it is very easy tolerate longer dry periods. Cut back begins Propagate by division in spring.

Stipa Brachytricha

Widely-branching, violet-red, shimmering r panicles on upright stems give a wonderfully decorative display right into winter. Vibrant green foliage turns a lovely e of bronze in fall. Protect during the winter months in colder locations.

Stipa Tenuifolia Pheasant grass

In summer, this deciduous, wispy, pale green ornamental grass develops a real mass of blonde hair which sways gracefully to and fro at the slightest touch of breeze. It is well suited for sunny gravel garden, or containers. S. tenuifolia can also be used extensively for green root planting. It tolerates dry,
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