Tag: annuals

  • Ipomoea tricolor/rubrocaerulea

    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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  • Linum

    Linum

    Pretty little flowers, as green manure or as perennials. Linum usitatissimum Sown in the fall of 2022 as green manure it covered wide swathes in the garden in dainty little blue flowers during May of 2023. Pretty but not very long-lasting. I will try Linum perenne next.

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