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Gladiolus is the birth flower of August. [21] Gladioli are the flowers associated with a fortieth wedding anniversary. American Ragtime composer Scott Joplin composed a rag called “Gladiolus Rag” [22] "Gladiolus" was the word Frank Neuhauser correctly spelled to win the 1st National Spelling Bee in 1925. [23]
Abelia has beautiful pink, purple, or peachy-colored bell-shaped flowers that bloom in late spring, spicy-sweet fragrance, colorful fall foliage, and cool seed pods. There's just so much to love!
Big sagebrush is a coarse, many-branched, pale-grey shrub with yellow flowers and silvery-grey foliage, which is generally 0.5–3 metres (1 + 1 ⁄ 2 –10 feet) tall. [3] A deep taproot 1–4 m (3 + 1 ⁄ 2 –13 ft) in length, coupled with laterally spreading roots near the surface, allows sagebrush to gather water from both surface precipitation and the water table several meters beneath.
Plumeria trees flower from early summer to fall. Their blossoms grow in clusters on ends of the stems, they are made of tubular corolla with a length of 2–4 inches (5.1–10.2 cm) that split sharply into five rounded and waxy petals that overlap each other. These flowers come in many colours including pink, red, white and yellow, orange, or ...
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This plant is grown as an ornamental plant as evergreen foliage for landscapes, [9] as well as for its red fall foliage. It has also been useful in erosion control on denuded soils. [ 10 ] It has been suggested as an agent of phytoremediation , [ 10 ] because it is a hyperaccumulator of chromium , lead , mercury , selenium , silver , zinc ...
Amaryllis (/ ˌ æ m ə ˈ r ɪ l ɪ s /) [1] is the only genus in the subtribe Amaryllidinae (tribe Amaryllideae).It is a small genus of flowering bulbs, with two species.The better known of the two, Amaryllis belladonna, is a native of the Western Cape region of South Africa, particularly the rocky southwest area between the Olifants River Valley and Knysna.
Fall bulbs should be planted as soon as the ground is cool usually, when the evening temperatures are constant between 40 to 50 degrees. Some gardeners plant as late as January.