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A very average pea. Mediocre yields and average taste. 18-20 inch vine with 3 inch pods.

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An excellent grey type. Prolific and dependable. Does well here.

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This entry has been described as 'gargantuan'. Considered an excellent garden plant and companion to other bulbs.

The International Daffodil Register & Classified List lists two cultivars so named. The other one is a registered Division 1 Trumpet daffodil w/ white petals and a soft yellow corona first flowering before 1934.

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Award winning golden jonquilla daffodil is nicely fragrant and quite tall. Corona's orangeness is climate dependent. Said to resemble 'Bunting', though lighter in color and taller.

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Blooms early in my zone 10 garden.

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Blooms early in my zone 10 garden.

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Won Forcing Award at Haarlem in 1968 (haven't noted this award received very often, though most daffodils are forcible). A good daffodil for perennial application, works well in southern states.
Brent and Becky consider it one of the best giant yellow daffodils.
Vanilla like fragrance is always welcome.
Sometimes marketed under the name of 'Breck's Colossal'.

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Flowers are rounded w/ pure white petals fronted by a light pink bowl shaped cup. Resembles 'Soprano' (seed parent) but with the corona deeper in tone and more clean-cut at rim. Forcible.

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Upfacing daffodil w/ white petals fronted by a salmon-pink cup. American bred (Grant Mitsch) award winner. Vigorous grower, quite showy. Brent and Becky consider it one of the best landscape pinks. Good for forcing.

Extensively used in breeding programs - 45 times as a seed parent and 99 times as a pollen parent. List of descendants viewable at the ADS DaffSeek site./

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This plant has flowers of an intense color that is very saturated.

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This lovely ground cover isn't really hardy in my zone( 8a). Hard frost will kill most of it, although small pieces might and often do survive and the plant then regrows from them the next season.
Last winter I protected it with a thin frost-protection cloth mounted on a few thin bamboo sticks I had bent into bows over the plant. I took it off on longer periods of little or no frost. This worked wonders. The whole plant has survived very well and even looks very healthy and happy in nearly full shade, where I had planted it last year, and it has now spread to more than 5 times its original size. This looks better than a lawn in a shady location!
I love how it twines itself among other shade loving plants. It looks so much better than just bare soil! :)
I'm not sure how I will do it next winter when the plant will have spread much farther. I think protecting a few patches here and there, from where it can regrow, will do the trick..
It loves humid soil, but can withstand drought when planted in humus-rich soil in the shade.

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"Russian sage grows on upright, grayish white stems that are 39.6 to 51.6 inches tall, with lobed, deeply notched silvery-grey leaves that are approximately 2.0 inches by .2 inch wide. Older stems are woody at the base, and younger stems are herbaceous and square in cross section. The stems and leaves give off a pungent odor when crushed or bruised. In late summer and autumn, Russian sage produces spires of small, tubular flowers of blue or lavender colour.

It requires full sun, but is hardy and cold tolerant. It is also tolerant of dry, chalky soils with a high pH, salt tolerant and drought tolerant."

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Gorgeous blue flowers! Love to see them in bloom!

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"Allium caeruleum (blue globe onion, blue ornamental onion, blue-of-the-heavens, blue-flowered garlic; syn. Allium azureum Ledeb.) is an ornamental bulbous plant of the onion genus, native to Asia. It grows to 31 inches, producing strap-shaped leaves and small globes (umbels) of blue flowers in early Summer. The plant has been granted the British Royal Horticultural Society's Award of Garden Merit (1993)[1]"

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"Allium is a monocot genus of flowering plants, informally referred to as the onion genus. The generic name Allium is the Latin word for garlic.[1]

Allium species are herbaceous perennials with flowers produced on scapes. They grow from solitary or clustered tunicate bulbs and many have an onion odor and taste. Plants are perennialized by bulbs that reform annually from the base of the old bulb, or are produced on the ends of rhizomes or, in a few species, at the ends of stolons. A small number of species have tuberous roots. The bulbs' outer coats are commonly brown or grey, with a smooth texture, and are fibrous, or with cellular reticulation. The inner coats of the bulbs are membranous.

Many alliums have basal leaves that commonly wither away from the tips downward before or while the plants flower, but some species have persistent foliage. Plants produce from one to 12 leaves, most species having linear, channeled or flat leaf blades. The leaf blades are straight or variously coiled, but some species have broad leaves, including A. victorialis and A. tricoccum. The leaves are sessile, and very rarely narrowed into a petiole."

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"Lonicera sempervirens (trumpet honeysuckle, trumpet vine) is a species of honeysuckle native to the eastern United States.

It is an evergreen twining climber growing to 20 ft or more through shrubs and young trees. The leaves are produced in opposite pairs, oval, up to 5 cm long and 4 cm broad; the leaves immediately below the flowers are perfoliate, joined at the base in a complete ring round the shoot. The flowers are produced in clusters of several groups of three together, tubular, 5 cm long, with five small lobes opening at the tip to expose the stamens and stigma; they are bright red to pinkish-red, and pollinated by Ruby-throated Hummingbirds and insects.

It is commonly grown as an ornamental plant in gardens, for its attractive flowers, and also as one of the best plants to attract hummingbirds."

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"Cestrum aurantiacum [1] (orange Cestrum, "orange jessamine", orange-flowering jessamine, and yellow Cestrum;[2] syn. Capraria lanceolata L.f., is an invasive species native to North and South America. This plant is used as an ornamental plant, and it is a poisonous plant.[3]"

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"Bletilla species are generally hardy, though some need protection from severe frost. It is better to keep them in pots of well drained media so that water does not sit around the roots during winter when the plants are not actively growing. They should also be watered sparingly at the start of the growing season as the new shoots emerge, as new roots often do not follow for around four weeks afterwards.

The flowers and leaves are at the mercy of late frosts, which are to be avoided if at all possible with coverings of a sheet or newspapers. Resist the temptation to remove the mulch layer even if the new growths are raising up the mulch due to an early Spring, unless no more frosts are likely. Unlike most tropical orchids, B. striata has attractive foliage even when not flowering. The pleated, tapered foliage looks very similar to the juvenile leaves of many palm species. A well established clump of these in flower is quite beautiful and they are surprisingly hardy even into USDA Zone 5 with a heavy mulch. They easily succeed in USDA Zone 6 with only a moderate mulch of straw or leaves. These hardiness ratings only apply to plants in the ground with the idea of preventing the actual root system from being frozen. If potted, they should be placed in a frost-free location if winter temperatures go below freezing. The plant is generally considered hardy without a mulch if minimum winter temperatures do not go below 25°F."

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"Sanguinaria canadensis, bloodroot, is a perennial, herbaceous flowering plant native to eastern North America.

The flowers are produced from March to May, with 8-12 delicate white petals and yellow reproductive parts. The flowers appear over clasping leaves while blooming. The flowers are pollinated by small bees and flies, seeds develop in elongated green pods 40 to 60 mm in length and ripen before the foliage goes dormant. The seeds are round in shape and when ripe are black to orange-red in color.

Sanguinaria canadensis plants are found growing in moist to dry woods and thickets, often on flood plains and near shores or streams on slopes, they grow less frequently in clearings and meadows or on dunes, and are rarely found in disturbed sites. Deer will feed on the plants in early spring.

Bloodroot is one of many plants whose seeds are spread by ants, a process called myrmecochory. The seeds have a fleshy organ called an elaiosome that attracts ants. The ants take the seeds to their nest, where they eat the elaiosomes, and put the seeds in their nest debris, where they are protected until they germinate. They also get the added bonus of growing in a medium made richer by the ant nest debris.

Sanguinaria canadensis is cultivated as an ornamental plant. The double flowering forms are prized by gardeners for their large showy white flowers, which are produced very early in the gardening season. Bloodroot flower petals are shed within a day or two of pollination so the flower display is short lived. The double forms bloom much longer than the normal forms, the double flowers are made up of stamens that have been changed into petal looking like parts, making pollination more difficult."

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A very pretty blue.
Seeds around a bit.

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Intense Rainbow flowers keep a long time and are therefore one of the premier choices for lei-making.
This is a compact growing tree.

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