Tag: annuals
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The Glory of Poppies
Common poppies or Papaver rhoeas are endemic to the Mediterranean countryside, growing in profusion along the roads and on fallow meadows, turning the countryside red in April. They are natives of North Africa but naturalized on almost every continent. A very “common” flower indeed, and yet, if one takes time for a closer look, how…
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Ipomoea tricolor/rubrocaerulea
No garden without the large luminous flowers of Ipomoea Heavenly Blue or Grandpa Ott – my favorite color varieties. Alas, it’s quite too hot and dry for them here. I did try sowing them but if they come up at all they need to be watered a lot and the first flowers show in October, after…
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