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What’s Blooming in the Clowes Water Garden Beds July 16, 2010
 The Horticulturist for the Clowes Water Garden beds, Nina Evans, decided to lean toward the wild side this year and designed a planting that would mimic a flower-filled meadow. To create this look, she used several colors and forms of annuals, including a grass, with clumps of three or more of each of the flowers planted as sporadically as possible. (This was harder to do than you might think, since plantings tend to have a pretty well defined pattern.) All the plants are sun-loving and fairly drought tolerant. Most require some deadheading during the season. Here’s what you will find out by the pools:
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Nasella Tenuissima
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Helenium 'Dakota Gold'
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Dianthus 'Telstar Salmon'
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Salvia 'Victoria White'
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Nicotiana 'Perfume Deep Purple' |
Verbena 'Imagination'
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- Nasella tenuissima (Mexican feather grass) - A very graceful bunch grass. It moves with the breeze and its thread-like flower and seed heads look beautiful when backlit.
- Helenium ‘Dakota Gold’ (Sneezeweed) - A fine-textured, mounding plant that becomes covered with small yellow-gold daisies that look like little lollipops when they lose their petals. A nice re-seeder.
- Dianthus ‘Telstar Salmon’ (Garden Pinks) - A short mounding plant with flowers whose edges look as if they have been trimmed with pinking shears. Also an good re-seeder from year to year without becoming troublesome.
- Salvia farinacea ‘Victoria White’ (Mealycup Sage) - This salvia sends spikes of silvery-white flowers to add a little height to the planting.
- Nicotiana ‘Perfume Deep Purple’ (Flowering Tobacco) - Also gives some height in a more open manner. Gorgeous purple-red flowers give off a light fragrance in the evening. Will also re-seed itself nicely in a good spot. Can take light shade and still bloom decently.
- Verbena ‘Imagination’ (Trailing Verbena) - This great filler plant has ferny-looking foliage and vibrant violet-blue flower clusters.
What's Blooming Articles 2010
March 17, 2010 - The First Flowers of Spring
March 30, 2010 - Spring Flowers Take Over!
April 16, 2010 - Spring Flowers Bloom
May 15, 2010 - May Flowers Show Their Beauty
May 30, 2010 - May Flowers Hot & Cool
June 15, 2010 - Native Wildflowers
June 30, 2010 - Day Lilies
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