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Phlox - Creeping Blue
Phlox - Creeping Blue The Phlox 'Creeping Blue', Phlox subulata 'Blue', makes a carpet of color and evergreen foliage and provides year round beauty and cover. 'Creeping Blue' plants are covered with a mass of blue flowers during April and May. This carefree wonder quickly blankets even tough problem areas with dense green foliage and thousands of colorful blooms. Plant 8-12 apart in any moist soil and in full sun to partial shade. A feeding of compost in the spring is all this plant requires in the way of food. Prune after flowering or late summer to create a healthier plant and to promote denser growth. 'Creeping Blue' is a good plant to use with your spring flowering bulbs such as Tulips and Daffodils. It is often used as a ground cover, an edging plant or for planting in cracks and walls. It is also good for naturalizing an area. It does prefer a well-drained soil, and clay water logged soils will lead to winter rotting. * Excellent rock garden plant * Use in pots and containers for spilling effect
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| Coneflower - Now Cheesier - Sale Price: $39.95 Echinacea Now Cheesier (Coneflower), Echinacea 'Now Cheesier', offers delicious cheddar cheese-colored deep golden yellow blooms that will lighten slightly after weeks of summer heat. New and improved, this coneflower has great vigor and better branching than many others. Great for sunny locations, this fragrant Echinacea will brighten up your garden with its stunning shade of bright yellow and sweetly scented blooms. ‘Now Cheesier’ is a long lasting flower that attracts butterflies and hummingbirds and is great in cut flower arrangements! Divide clumps when they become overcrowded (about every 4 years. ‘Now Cheesier’ usually reblooms without deadheading, but if spent flowers are removed, this procedure will encourage continued beautiful blooms and improves general appearance. Highly fragrant, this coneflower keeps coming all summer on tall plants with excellent branching. This plant is deer resistant. If you leave some spent blooms on the plants in fall their seeds provide winter food for birds. You can enjoy the dried seed heads as well, because they will provide architectural interest in the winter. ‘Now Cheesier’ is an outstanding flower with an intense golden-yellow color. It will bring a brilliant display to a sunny location! * Fragrant * Hardy * Long lasting blooms |
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