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Burkwood Daphne 'Carol Mackie' at the Denver Botanical Garden.
If you are eager to have more perfume in your garden there are many shrubs from which you may like to choose.
Astilbe japonica 'Queen of Holland'.
Astilbes with varying bloom times can be used to create a lovely, low-maintenance shaded bed.
Creeping phlox.
I recently admired a beautifully planted curbside garden in full sun with a lovely color palette.
Salvia x sylvestris 'May Night'.
“How shall a man die that has sage in his garden?”
Bottle gentian.
Today we're focusing on blossoms with blue and lavender colors.
From left to right: Harold Nicolson, Vita Sackville-West, Rosamund Grosvenor, Lionel Sackville-West
Vita Sackville-West and her husband Nigel Nicolson bought their home, Sissinghurst, in 1930 and gradually created one of the most famous gardens of all time.
Opal basil looks great in a bouquet!
A well-appointed garden needs not only flowers but also decorative foliage that is concurrently available to combine with the garden flowers in a vase.
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There are many mounding plants, but they need to be interspersed in a garden with some vertical accents.
Colorful flower bed.
Color combinations can make plant neighbors “pop” and show us that more of the one thing is not always better.
Purple and white flowers of Penstemon hirsutus, also known as Hairy beardtongue.
Their flowers have two lips, a bit like snapdragon blooms, and there are approximately 250 species in the genus.
Moya Andrews is a Master Gardener and a member of the Bloomington Garden Club in Bloomington, Indiana. Learn more »
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