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These fast-growing plants in seasonal flower beds create colourful displays, during spring, summer, fall or winter, depending on the climate. [1] [2] [3] Plants used for bedding are generally annuals, but biennials, tender perennials, and succulents are also used.
Letter Garden. Spell words by linking letters, clearing space for your flowers to grow. Can you clear the entire garden? By Masque Publishing
Ratibida columnifera, commonly known as upright prairie coneflower, [2] rocketflower, [3] Mexican hat, [4] and longhead prairie coneflower, [5] is a perennial species of flowering plant in the genus Ratibida in the family Asteraceae. It is native to much of North America and inhabits prairies, plains, roadsides, and disturbed areas.
Dryas octopetala (white dryas, Rosaceae) has a leaf rosette of leaf blades with a short petiole, slim, egg-shaped leaves with cordate bases with clearly and regularly toothed margins, and single flowers on usually long peduncles or stalks, two to four centimetres across. The flowers have seven to nine, often even more, white egg-shaped petals.
Perennial sunflower is a crop of sunflowers that are developed by crossing wild perennial and domestic annual sunflower species. Annual sunflower is a major oilseed crop. Genes from wild perennial relatives may increase root depth and mass and extend the growing season. These upgrades means future varieties with higher yields and better soil ...
The flowers are light-blue or lavender, produced in tight clusters located on terminal and axillary stems, sometimes appearing as panicles, frequently recurved or pendulous, blooming in summer. The fruit is a small globose yellow or orange berry , up to 11 mm (0.43 in) diameter and containing several seeds .
Its many common names include hitch hikers, black-jack, beggarticks, farmer's friends and Spanish needle, but most commonly referred to as cobblers pegs. It is native to the Americas but is widely distributed as an introduced species in other regions including Eurasia , Africa , Australia , South America and the Pacific Islands , [ 2 ] and is ...
Its flowers vary from greenish white to cream-colored — some are fragrant at night, others not at all — and have a sticky texture. [ 5 ] Dracaena trifasciata is commonly called " mother-in-law's tongue ", " Saint George 's sword" or "snake plant", because of the shape and sharp margins of its leaves [ 2 ] that resemble snakes.