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With over 25,000 different types of orchids to choose from, in almost every color of the rainbow, growers are ...

Whoever has grown a few of the various Celosias has surely been charmed either by their beauty or their ...

The Annual Delphinium is one of the best-known annuals, bearing long racemes of lovely colored flowers and lacy foliage. ...

OENOTHERA, Evening primrose, SundropsThere are many biennial and perennial Oenotheras but several are rather popular annuals.Oenothera drummondi. Drummond Evening-primrose. ...

NICOTIANA Flowering Tobacco(Named for Jean Nicot, French consul to Portugal, who first presented tobacco to the courts of Portugal ...

PHLOX – Texas pride(Name from Greek for a flame, perhaps first applied to another plant)The brilliance and clean colors ...

SILENE – Catchfly(From the Greek for saliva, referring to the stickiness of the stems of some species)The Sweet-William Catchfly, ...

Purple Ragwort – SENECIO (Jacobaea) – Purple Groundsel (Latin from senex, old man, refers to gray pappus of seeds)In ...

RESEDA – Mignonette(Latin name Reseda means “to calm or appease,” and refers to the fact that the plant was ...

The long stems and tufted flowers of the annual Scabiosa (S. atropurpurea) are charming. The colors also are pleasing ...