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Seeds Sunflower Autumn Beauty The Sunflower Autumn Beauty, 'Helianthus annuus, is a multi-branched plant that produces many beautiful 5 to 8 inch flowers in a wide range of "autumnal" colors. It also makes a great cut flower. This is a sunflower that will turn heads. The flowers are shades of brown, red and purple bicolors with a brown center. After the initial spring planting, plant another crop in month. This will ensure a continual supply of flowers until late fall. They are drought tolerant, but they will take considerable moisture for full flowering.
A Gaggle Of Gourds The Gaggle of Gourds, 'Lagenaria siceraria', is an assortment of hard shelled gourds that creative crafters will love. For thousands of years, gourds have been grown to used as utensils, storage containers, musical instruments, and ornamental objects. This gourd mix includes Birdhouse or Bottle Gourd, Calabash or Penguin, Corsican, Dipper, and Speckled Swan. Plant 2 to 4 weeks after average last frost date and when soil temperatures have risen above 60 degrees. The soils should be well drained and very rich in organic matter.
A Real Shady Blend The Real Shady Mix, Flower Blend, provides color even in a shady garden spot. If you have high, filtered shade from trees or an area that gets direct sun for only a few hours a day, this shady blend of flowers will provide color and interest with as little as four hours of sun. Real Shady Mix provides fabulous colors and a mix of ground covers and tall spires. Some of the flowers included are Baby Blue Eyes, Coleus, Columbine, Shasta, Daisy's, Forget Me Not, Foxglove, Poppy, and Wallflower. Soil must be kept moist while the seeds are germinating and beginning to grow. This mix covers approximately 200 square feet.
Drop Dead Red Sunflowers The Drop Dead Red Sunflower Mixture is a florist's dream. A bouquet or border of these stunners will stop your visitors in their tracks. Sunflowers are easy to grow from seed, and bloom for an extended period from mid-summer to fall. Sunflowers can be planted in the spring after the last average frost date. This sunflower will grow in almost any soil but it blooms and thrives best in rich garden soil.
Florist Favorite Yellow Sunflowers The Florists' Favorite Yellow Sunflowers have outstanding cut flower quality in an array of sunny colors. The single and double blooms range from pale to vivid yellow and they will provide a striking collection for beds and borders. It's easy to fill your home with professional-looking floral arrangements when you grow this mix. The Designer colors include Apricot Twist, Lemon Sorbet, Moonshadow, Lemon Eclair, Stella, Lemon Aura, Pro Cut Orange, and Peach Passion. Keep the plants attractive by removing spent flowers.
Perennial Bloom The Perennial Bloom is a mix of many perennials that are the mainstay of many a garden. Most perennials require minimum maintenance once established. This mix of nineteen varieties includes flowers from subtle to showy. Maintenance usually involves deadheading, yearly cleanup, some fertilizing, and watering as needed. In cool climates plant in the spring, 3 to 6 weeks before the last average frost date. Be sure to keep the weeds pulled so they do not compete with the flowers for water and sun.
Terrific Trailing Baskets These seven varieties are a fabulous mix of color, form and texture. Terrific Trailers will provide a waterfall of floral delight that will show off all summer. Keep the soil moist and in direct light.
Dried Delights Dried flowers provide endless possibilities for flower arrangements, wreaths, swags and other craft ideas. The Dried Flower packet contains seed of 20 different flowers that lend themselves to drying. This mix covers approximately 40 square feet.
Grandmothers Cutflower Grd The Grandmother's Cut Flower Garden Mix is a charming, old-fashioned blend of flowers your grandmother might have grown. Twenty-three varieties of annuals, biennials and perennials will provide flowers for cutting from spring through first frost. Even if your grandmother didn't have a green thumb, this mix will evoke images of a simpler, less hurried time in which she lived.
Sweet Baby Blue These flowers are excellent for borders, beds and ground cover. With the exception of Baby's Breath and Rose of Heaven, all of the varieties in this mix are annuals. In mild climates, sow seed during cooler months, generally October through March.
Short Meadow The Short Meadow Flower Mix exhibits a rainbow of color starting in the spring and continuing until fall.
Xeriscape Extreme In mild climates, sow seed during cooler months, generally October through March.
Bring Home The Butterflies Be sure to keep the weeds pulled so they do not compete with the flowers for water and sun.
Hummingbird Haven Some of the flower varieties included are Bee Balm, Columbine Shooting Star, Coral Bells, Godetia, Hollyhock, Nasturtium and Zinnia.
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