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Sammy Russell Day Lily

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I love day lilies.

I only wish that their blooms would last for days and that they would rebloom over and over again all season. Yes, some day lilies do rebloom once or twice in a season but not all of them do. This day lily, the Sammy Russel, happens to rebloom at least once per season.

It’s a lovely deep maroon shade. The bloom are quite large and they stand out in the garden beds quite nicely. I can’t wait until the day lilies and all of my other flowers begin to bloom again.

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Foxglove – an old favorite

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Foxglove:

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Well, this isn’t the best photo I’ve ever taken, but it seems that this is one of the only photos that I happen to have of this particular Foxglove plant. Honestly, some where in my gardening notes I have the name of this species written down, but I can’t remember exactly what species it is at the moment.

Foxglove are lovely plants to grow in the garden. Flower stalks can range from eighteen inches to four feet tall. There can be dozens of elongated bell-shaped flowers on each stalk. The color of the flowers can range from white, cream, yellow to pink, rose, peach, purple and almost black.

There are perennial, annual and biennial varieties of Foxglove (Digitalis). The most popular kind are biennial which means that one year they will only have green leaves, and then the second year the plants flower, set seed and die.

If you enjoy growing foxglove and happen to have the biennial variety you should plant seeds or young plants two years in a row in order to have flowering plants each year. One single plant can produce thousands of tiny seeds, which may germinate readily in your garden.

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The black Hollyhock

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A couple of years ago I started growing black Hollyhocks in my garden. I suppose they are more of an extremely dark burgundy, but they are called black.

Nothing much happened for the first two years that I grew them. They grew but didn’t produce flowers. I suppose they must have sprouted a new plant or two somehow though, as the two clumps of black hollyhocks that I’ve been growing finally decided to bloom last year.

Hollyhocks are biennial plants. That means that they usually only grow green leaves in the first year, and do not produce any flowers. In their second year they often bloom profusely. If you grow plants that are biennial you should plant new plants two or more years in a row so that you can have some bloom from some of them each year.

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