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Magnolia ‘Butterflies’.
The genus name honors Pierre Magnol, French botanist (1638-1715).
Golden Wattle in full flower on the banks of the Murrumbidgee River in Wagga Wagga, New South Wales, Australia.
January 26 is Australia Day, and the floral emblem of Australia is the golden wattle.
"Flower bunch with a bird nest" (1810) by Dutch painter Corneille van Spaendonck.
Flowering quince and forsythia branches will soon be available to force into bloom.
Garden border at Panshanger, a country estate in Hertfordshire, England.
Most flower gardeners have either beds or borders or both.
American beautyberry in Pinnacle Mountain State Park, Arkansas.
Callicarpa americana makes a good hedge on the outskirts of a garden, as well as excellent ornamental focal points in borders.
Clethra alnifolia.
If you yearn for more fragrance in your garden, here are some suggestions for ornamental sweetshrubs that you could plant this fall.
Hydrangea paniculata 'Vanille Fraise'.
Some of their names are almost as lovely as the flowers themselves!
Actaea (a.k.a. Cimicifuga) simplex,Atropurpurea Group. There are several purple cultivars within this group...
The cool fall weather causes plants that are new to your garden to transition more comfortably...
Bloodroot, (Sanguinaria canadensis).
It’s possible to have colorful shade gardens that have a continual sequence of bloom.
Nature’s thermometers: Rhododendron (Rhododendron maximum).
“My ‘rhodos’ are doing a good job of protecting themselves from photoinhibition.”
Moya Andrews is a Master Gardener and a member of the Bloomington Garden Club in Bloomington, Indiana. Learn more »
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