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What's New
The week of February 28
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Our plant picks from Spring Gardening 2005
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| 'Ring of Fire' sunflower |
'Becky Towe' phlox |
'Heavenly Blue' morning glory |
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| 'Ring of Fire' is one of our favourite dwarf sunflower varieties because of its bicoloured dark red & golden-yellow flowers. Sunflowers are easy to grow and are great for a children's garden. |
This hardy phlox 'Becky Towe' features fragrant, salmon-carmine flowers with magenta eyes and incredible gold-edged variegated foliage. It looks fantastic planted with contrasting plants such as purple-leafed snakeroot. |
The 'Heavenly Blue' morning glory is well-named, with its incredible open-faced flowers of pure sky-blue. A vigorous, twining growth habit makes this a perfect plant for hanging baskets or trellises. |
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| 'Diabolo' ninebark |
'John Davis' Explorer rose |
'Evans' cherry |
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| 'Diabolo' Ninebark is a super contrast plant with deep purple foliage. It features pink clustered blooms in summer, and the richly coloured branches look great in the winter. A great feature for any bed. |
The hardy Explorer roses are excellent performers, and John Davis is one of the best in the series. Its fragrant, semi-double, medium-pink flowers bloom from June through frost. |
The 'Evans' Cherry is a self-pollinating, sour cherry discovered in Alberta. It produces huge harvests of red, sweet-tart fruit in late July/early August. The fruit is excellent for fresh eating, pies and winemaking. |
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| 'Lord Lieutenant' anemone |
'Bon Vivant' lettuce |
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| 'Lord Lieutenant' anemones produce big, vividly coloured, poppy-like semi-double blooms, with gorgeous black centres. These bulbs are perfect for borders, beds or woodland gardens. |
'Bon Vivant' Lettuce is a beautiful mix of salad greens in a full range of colours and textures. Includes deep red, bronze and light- to deep-green lettuce and can be eaten when only a few inches tall up to full size. |
In our Spring Gardening 2005 magazine you'll find four great recipes featuring nasturtiums (nasturtium salad), sunflowers (pumpkin-sunflower bread), lavender (lavender shortbread cookies) and hops (hops scrambled eggs). |
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