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Jul 20, 2022 6:01 PM CST
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Name: Zoia Bologovsky
Stoneham MA (Zone 6b)
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Million Bells Tart Deco

A fun hanging annual, Tart Deco makes a big color splash.

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Jul 20, 2022 6:15 PM CST
Name: Laurie
southeast Nebraska (Zone 5b)
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I'm not familiar with this flower, but it sure is pretty. Nice banner Zoia!
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Jul 20, 2022 7:45 PM CST
Name: Nancy
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I always have million bells in my planters every summer, it's great and keeps blooming through frost, although I've never heard of that particular color. Wonderful banner from it!
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Jul 20, 2022 7:54 PM CST
Name: Rj
Just S of the twin cities of M (Zone 4b)
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Great banner Zoia!
As Yogi Berra said, “It's tough to make predictions, especially about the future.”
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Jul 20, 2022 8:47 PM CST
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Name: Zoia Bologovsky
Stoneham MA (Zone 6b)
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A bigger picture. It's struggling now in the heat but will probably get back to blooming business when the heat wave breaks.
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Jul 21, 2022 12:15 AM CST
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She's a beauty and I love that color!
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Jul 21, 2022 10:56 AM CST
Name: Elizabeth
Ann Arbor, Michigan (Zone 6a)
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I'm more used to calling these planter workhorse bloomers Calibrachoas (Calibrachoa) than Million Bells, and others might know them by that name, too. By any name, they're indispensable in summer plantings in my book. Always a welcome sight. Great show of them in your banner.
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Jul 21, 2022 12:08 PM CST
Name: Nancy
Northeastern Illinois (Zone 5b)
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And my area, I once asked for the bright yellow calibrachoas, if they had any... didn't have a clue what that was until I said "million bells"? Ahhh, yes, over there! I should add that this was at a nursery/garden center, not a big box store where I wouldn't expect employees to know plants.

And yes, they're definitely one of the workhorses of the summer garden, I do love them and all their color variations.
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