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20 matches for “summer”
- Shrub roseNo label, no name, and no receipt. The habit is loose and twiggy rather than the stiff upright legs of a hybrid tea, which…
- Pale pink shrub roseLoose, many-petalled flowers in cream with a blush of pink towards the centre, opening flat and slightly quartered, fading almost to white in…
- Hollyhock…Any seedling rosettes that appear nearby are next summer's flowers, so leave those in place — but do not leave last year's diseased…
- Yarrow…water it well, feed it or plant it in rich ground and the stems grow soft and tall, then the first summer downpour flattens…
- Climbing rose…Tie in the new long growths as they appear through summer, while they are still green and bendy. Left until winter they set rigid…
- Lacecap hydrangeaLacecaps are the more restrained cousin of the mophead hydrangea: instead of one solid pom-pom, you get a flat disc of tiny fertile…
- Border phloxStiff upright stems topped with a dome of small, flat, five-petalled flowers, packed tightly enough to read as one solid head from a…
- Double daylilyHemerocallis means beautiful for a day, and it is not being poetic. Every flower opens in the morning and is finished by the following…
- DahliaTight, overlapping petals in coral pink opening around a yellow eye, on stems that keep coming from July until the weather ends it. Somewhere…
- Wild rose…It flowers hard for a few weeks in early summer and then stops, which is the deal with species roses. What it actually wants…
- Hardy geranium…The failure mode is not death, it is mid-summer squalor. After flowering the mound flops open from the centre, the inner leaves yellow…
- Shrubby salvia…Cut back in spring once new shoots appear low down, and if in doubt, root a few cuttings in late summer and keep them…
- Japanese snowball viburnum…Prune lightly, and only just after flowering — next year's flower buds form on this year's growth through summer, so cutting in autumn…
- Penstemon…Non-flowering side shoots taken in late summer root easily in gritty compost and are in flower the following year, so there is always…
- Japanese mapleA low, layered mound of fine palmate leaves, fresh green through summer with the newest growth coming through paler at the tips. The flowers…
- Bear's breeches…Slugs and snails will shred the new spring leaves if they get the chance, and powdery mildew can turn late-summer foliage grey. Both…
- Morning glory…Collect seed if you like, but in a cool summer this one often fails to ripen any before the frost arrives, so expect to…
- Monstera…Direct summer sun through glass bleaches pale patches into the leaves. The aerial roots are structural, not decorative. In the wild they grip a…
- Chinese money plant…They are greedier than their size suggests and a monthly feed through summer makes a visible difference. The whole plant turns to face the…
- Rubber plant…Put it in direct summer sun and the cream scorches to brown paper, permanently. The bright end of indirect is what it wants, and…