Larkspur Blue 4 ft.
Good for borders and backgrounds.
The finest of
blue flowers.
Sweet Different 2 ft.
A self sewing perennial. Bright
William colours.
Good for massing. Sweet
and constant bloomer.
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July
Baby’s White 3 ft. Grows in rocky soil. Use for formal Breath bouquets.
Butterfly Orange 2 ft. Likes full sunlight and dry soil. Fine Weed colour effect.
Perennial Different 2-5 ft.
Good for borders and cut flowers.
Phlox
Spiked Pink 3 ft. Belongs in
wet swamp lands. Will
Loosestrife grow in borders.
Hollyhock Different 6 ft. Use for backgrounds and borders.
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Aster, New Blue 4 ft. Grows in any soil. The best of tall England asters.
Golden Glow Yellow 6 ft.
Grows in any soil and spreads rapidly.
Good background.
Japanese White Climber Rapid flowering vine. Use on trellis. Clematis Sweet flowers.
Sunflower Yellow 6 ft.
Fine for backgrounds and screens.
Any dry soil.
Turtle Head Rose 2 ft. Flowers on spikes. Any soil, but wet Purple preferred.
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Hardy White 6 ft. Blooms till frost. Blossom heads Hydrangea effective.
Japanese Carmine 3 ft.
Good border plant. Blossoms last
Anemone till frost.
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-------------- WATER AND BOG PLANTS ------------------------------------------------------------
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--------- Arrowhead Sagittaria latifolia One of the most popular water plants. Spreads badly.
Arum (water) Calla palustris
Popular water plant. Grows
less
than 1 ft. high. Blooms
in
June.
Blue Flag Iris versicolor
Grows from 2-3 ft. high. Grows
in bogs
and gardens.
Cat-tail Typha latifolia
Grows to 8 ft. or more. Spreads
rapidly.
Floating Heart Limnanthemum
Grows less than 1 ft. high.
nymphoides Good
plant for a pond.
Spreads
readily.
Forget-me-not Myosotis Palustris
Grows less than 1 ft. high.
Prefers
half-shady places.