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My Gardens This Week

July 14, 2011 • Categories: Summer Garden • by

My Gardens This Week–Second Week in July     Another of my favorite flowers is Purple Prairie Clover (Petalostemum purpureum).  A purple fringed tutu of tiny blossoms begins to climb up the tubular cone early in July and becomes a long purple cylinder as the season progresses.   It gets even better–bright purple-stemmed, golden-orange anthers [...]

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One of My Favorite Flowers

May 24, 2011 • Categories: Pat's Comments, Spring Garden • by

One of My Favorite Flowers   People ask me what my favorite flower is, and my answer is always “It depends on what’s in bloom.”  But Cream Wild Indigo (Baptisia leucophaea) would definitely be in my top ten.  Its exquisite, long, lush, drooping, butter yellow racemes bloom from early-to mid-May through early June on a [...]

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