The seedlings of Four O’Clock are illustrated.
If you want a lot of color that can cope with the heat and come back year after year, even after a hard gel, take a look at the 4 hours. It’s a smart selection for County because it adapts well to the shade or the sun and adapts to the maximum of soil types.
In my River Plantation garden, I have a lot of them around my backyard that recovered from a single plant after our last frost. They have multiplied so fast that I now give them to my neighbors like Miss Rumphius with her lupins, Ima Hogg with her azaleas and Lady Bird Johnson with her wildflowers. Seedlings do well in pots, and the ones I gave my daughter for her birthday on July 1 grow and look wonderful in a colorful glass pot along with some Miss Muffet calades The seed heads that appear in the middle of the flower look like little black beans and are easy to harvest.
Very hardy perennial plant that gives off a slight smell and attracts hummingbirds, it is a delight in pots or in the open field. Originally from the Andes mountain range, its Latin name means “wonderful”. The official name is Wonder of the Perú. Es in fact, a wonder of colorful flowers in each and every one of the colors imaginable. Large green leaves cover the plant and can even provide shade to other plants. A word of warning: the plant is poisonous and spreads, but it can be plucked and moved without problems.
As the call suggests, the plant is named according to the time of day when the flowers appear. Even with this heat, the flowers withstood the months of June and July. I learned from my mistakes last year when I forgot to harvest the tiny black seeds and now I have a lawn full of flowers where I didn’t need any. Although they are beautiful, they can be a bit invasive and even invade other plants, so be on the lookout for collecting the seeds and sharing them with your friends and neighbors.
Four hours are enough to shape an edge or hedge, but they will disappear with the first frosts. If you really need to involve them, try planting them in a colorful pot where the plant will take a waterfall shape. Mine have a caramel smell that is rarely very overwhelming, and they make other smart plants for my Peggy Martin roses. Enjoy those fairly heat-resistant flowers throughout the summer and don’t share them with your friends and neighbors.
For answers to your gardening questions, consult County Master Gardeners in www. mcmga. com or call 936-five39-7824. Master Gardeners members can help you on 8 a. m. business days. m. to 12 p. m. and from 1 p. m. to five p. m. at extension A offices
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