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| Select plants for summer success
as you think about how to stretch the enjoyment of your garden. |
| Achillea is an amazing perennial
that is hardy throughout most of the United States and can withstand
heat, drought, and cold. |
| A wonderful groundcover grown
mainly for its foliage but with the bonus of pretty flowers,
ajuga is an evergreen to semi-evergreen herbaceous perennial |
| Old-fashioned favorite with
dramatic impact, hollyhocks are renowned for their spectacularly
tall flower spikes in white, yellow, pink, rose, red or purple. |
| The lovely member of the onion
family produces a 5-inch ball -- or umbel -- of tiny, vivid purple
flowers atop a bare 2-foot-tall stem. |
| Wild garlic, like all alliums,
is a member of the onion family. It's white flowers are tiny,
but produced in profusion in flat-topped "umbels" on
upright leafless stems |
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