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From pollinator borders to cutting gardens, discover flowers that bring colour, scent and life to every outdoor space.
(Tanacetum vulgare) Thistle family Flower-heads - Small, round, of tubular florets only, packed within a depressed involucre, and borne, in flat-topped corymbs. Stem: 1 1/2 to 3 ft. tall, leafy. Leave...
(Carduus) Thistle family Is land fulfilling the primal curse because it brings forth thistles? So thinks the farmer, no doubt, but not the goldfinches which daintily feed among the fluffy seeds, nor t...
(Epigaea repens) Heath family Flowers - Pink, fading to nearly white, very fragrant about 1/2 in. across when expanded, few or many in clusters at ends of branches. Calyx of 5 dry overlapping sepals;...
(Lespedeza procumbens) Pea family Flowers - Purplish pink or violet, veined, the butterfly-shaped ones having standard petal, wings, and keel, clustered at end of peduncles; the minute flowers lacking...
(Datura stramonium) Potato family Flowers - Showy, large, about 4 in. high, solitary, erect, growing from the forks of branches. Calyx tubular, nearly half as long as the corolla, 5-toothed, prismatic...
(Tecoma radicans) Trumpet-creeper family Flowers - Red and veined within, paler and inclined toward tawny without, trumpet-shaped, about 2 1/2 in. long, the limb with 5 rounded lobes; 2 to 9 flowers i...
(Linnaea borealis) Honeysuckle family Flowers - Delicate pink or white tinged with rose, bell-shaped, about 1/2 in. long, fragrant, nodding in pairs on slender, curved pedicels from an erect peduncle,...
(Jeffersonia diphylla) Barberry family Flowers - White, 1 in. broad, solitary, on a naked scape about 7 in. high in flower, more than twice as tall in fruit. Calyx of 4 petal-like sepals falling early...
(Dentaria diphylla) Mustard family Flowers - White, about 1/2 in. across, in a terminal loose cluster, the formation of each similar to that of bulbous cress. Stem: 8 to 15 in. high. Root stock: Long,...