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Plant these as a winter sowing or cold stratify them for spring planting. Swamp sunflower (H. angustifolius) . As its name suggests, swamp sunflower tolerates wetter sites than other sunflowers.
Here are the best spring flowers your garden needs to shine this season. As soon as it gets warmer, go ahead and take in all the stunning and colorful blooms. 35 Spring Flowers to Plant Right This ...
Repotting your house plants is key to keeping them alive and helping them grow over time.
Heliotropism, a form of tropism, is the diurnal or seasonal motion of plant parts (flowers or leaves) in response to the direction of the Sun. The habit of some plants to move in the direction of the Sun, a form of tropism, was already known by the Ancient Greeks. They named one of those plants after that property Heliotropium, meaning "sun turn".
Tithonia diversifolia is a species of flowering plant in the family Asteraceae that is commonly known as the tree marigold, [2] Mexican tournesol, Mexican sunflower, Japanese sunflower or Nitobe chrysanthemum. It is native to Mexico and Central America but has a nearly pantropical distribution as an introduced species. [1]
Helichrysum species are used as food plants by the larvae of some Lepidoptera species including the bucculaticid leaf-miners Bucculatrix gnaphaliella (which feeds exclusively on Helichrysum arenarium) and Bucculatrix helichrysella (feeds exclusively on H. italicum) and the Coleophora case-bearers C. caelebipennella, C. gnaphalii (feeds ...
If water runs straight through your plant’s pot or the potting soil cracks and shrinks away from the pot’s sides, it may be time to repot your plant into fresh soil. Related: The 7 Best ...
It is a perennial herbaceous plant up to 1.5 m (4.9 ft) tall, spreading by means of underground rhizomes. The leaves are mostly along the stem rather than crowded near the base, each egg-shaped with teeth along the edges. One plant produces 1-15 flower heads containing 17-22 yellow ray florets surrounding 75 or more yellow disc florets. [5]