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All the things you may not have known about Chrysanthemum!

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By Pat Feinstein    Email

Chrysanthemums are the most popular plants sold between August and November. 11.6.09 Chrysanthemums or the hardy mums contribute to varieties of colors in the garden more than any other flowering plants in the fall. 10.14.08 Chrysanthemum is a name of......

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Gaillardia, Blanket flower

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By Pat Feinstein    Email

Gaillardia is in the same family as daisies and sunflowers (Asteraceae). It was named after M.Gaillard de Charentonneau, an 18th-century French magistrate. I do not always have gaillardias in my garden every single year. However this past spring I planted......

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Aster, the flower for fall

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By Pat Feinstein    Email

Aster, a flowering perennial in the Asteraceae family, is very hardy and almost care-free. 10.30.09 I have had mine in the front garden for many years and I can count on them to come back every year. 9.22.06 The flowers......

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Zinnia doesn't get enough attention

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By Pat Feinstein    Email

Zinnia is a genus of flowering plants named after a German botanist and physicist, Jahann Zinn (1727 -1759), and referred by Julia Brittain in The Plant Lover's Companion as "flamboyant Mexican flowers"; yet this beautiful flower has never received enough......

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My towering celosia

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By Pat Feinstein    Email

Celosia, a tender annual, is supposed to be about 1 to 3 feet tall. 8/05 The celosia in my yard is way beyond 6 feet already... and this is the third generation of celosia from the single plant I purchased......

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Blue-eyed daisy (osteospermum)

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By Pat Feinstein    Email

Osteospemum belongs in the Asteraceae family, which includes the sunflowers (helianthus) and blanket flowers (gaillardia). They have been part of my annual flower garden for many years. The daisy-like flowers have disc florets and ray florets. The beautiful blueness on......

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My beautiful, my beautiful balloon

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By Pat Feinstein    Email

"Up, up and away... would you like to ride in my beautiful, my beautiful balloon..." the lyric from the Fifth Dimension's hit by Jimmy Webb came to mind almost every time I look at the blue balloon flowers before they......

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