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Annuals Ageratum-Viola Botanical Name Ageratum mexicanum Common Name Ageratum DESCRIPTION Leaves are somewhat heart shaped, bright green, pubescent Flower head is fluffy - not over 1/2 inch in diameter Cottony flowers in clusters held above foliage. Mounding habit DESCRIPTION Flower is a composite head Color blue or white EXPOSURE Sun Semi shade Foliage Description Arrangement: Opposite Composition: Simple Margin: Serrated FLOWER Description Summer White Purple - blue CLASSIFICATION Annual USE Border BOTANICAL NAME BEGONIA X SEMPERFLORENS-CULTORUM COMMON NAME Wax Begonia DESCRIPTION Waxy rounded leaves upright form, rounded flowers with yellow centers Heavy bloomers Fibrous rooted Cultivars - many with varying foliage, flower, and growth habits EXPOSURE Shade Leaf Description Arrangement-Alternate Composition-Simple Margin-Serrated and Hairy FLOWER Summer - autumn Pink, red or white CLASSIFICATION Annual- Bedding plant USE House plant Bedding plant Planted in masses BOTANICAL NAME COLEUS X HYBRIDUS or SOLONOSTEMON SCUTELLAROIDES COMMON NAME Coleus DESCRIPTION Plant has square stems Distinctive and brilliantly colored foliage. Leaves have contrasting colors Whorled EXPOSURE Full sun Semi Shade Leaf Description Arrangement-Whorled Composition- Simple Margin- Varies FLOWER Summer Purple spike (not attractive) CLASSIFICATION Annual- Bedding plant USE House plant Bedding plant Shade Gardens BOTANICAL NAME IMPATIENS COMMON NAME Impatiens Cultivars and Hybrids DESCRIPTION Succulent stem Flower has a spur ‘New Guinea Hybrids’ Masses of 1” blooms in various colors Cover bright green foliage EXPOSURE Shade Leaf Description Arrangement- Opposite Composition- Simple Margin- Slightly serrated FLOWER Single and double Pink and white CLASSIFICATION Annual- Bedding plant USE Bedding Plant Container Plant New Guinea Impatiens BOTANICAL NAME PELARGONIUM X HORTORUM COMMON NAME Geranium DESCRIPTION Rounded, softly pubescent, scalloped leaves, Clusters of flowers on erect stems above foliage EXPOSURE Semi Shade FLOWER An umbel Summer Red, white, salmon, pink Leaf Description Arrangement: Opposite Composition: Simple CLASSIFICATION Annual-Bedding plant USE House plant Bedding or container plant BOTANICAL NAME PELARGONIUM PELTATUM COMMON NAME Ivy Leaf Geranium Connecting the Scientific Name with the Common Name (The Mrs. A Way) You get pelted with homework in an Ivy league school DESCRIPTION A trailing geranium, peltate leaves, 5 angled or lobed, sometimes zoned with red; ivy shaped EXPOSURE Sun Part shade FLOWER An umbel White, pink, red, and shades thereof Leaf Description Arrangement: Alternate Composition: Simple Margin: Scalloped CLASSIFICATION Annual USE Hanging baskets Containers BOTANICAL NAME SALVIA SPLENDENS COMMON NAME Salvia Connecting the Scientific Name with the Common Name (The Mrs. A Way) Salvia and Salvia DESCRIPTION Many different heights and colors of flowers Oval dark green leaves sturdy plant on spikes above foliage EXPOSURE Sun CLASSIFICATION Bedding Plant Annual Leaf Description Arrangement: Opposite Composition: Simple Margin: Serrated FLOWER Summer Red, white, orange, maroon and bicolor USE Bedding plant Blooms early summer to frost Tolerant of most soils Excellent in mass plantings BOTANICAL NAME TAGETES SPECIES COMMON NAME African Marigold DESCRIPTION Highly aromatic Deeply cut lead fern like Thick hollow stemmed EXPOSURE Sun Leaf Description Arrangement: Opposite Composition: compound Margin: Deeply serrated CLASSIFICATION Annual- Bedding Plant FLOWER Spring to frost Yellow, orange, white USE Annual-Bedding plant BOTANICAL NAME VIOLA X WITTROCKIANA COMMON NAME Pansy Description Leaves are oval and slightly scalloped, medium to dark green Flowers are long stems above foliage EXPOSURE Semi Shade FLOWER Fall/Winter (Cool season) May or may not have eyes Many colors 5 petals - 4 at top and 1 at bottom CLASSIFICATION Annual-Bedding Plant USE Border Botanical Name Ficus pumila COMMON NAME Creeping Fig Evergeen, creeping vine 8’-13’ long Self clinging to walls and structures by aerial roots Exposure Sun (not afternoon) Part shade Not cold hardy – leaves may turn brown with low temperatures and frost. It will come back with new growth in the Spring. Uses Climb and cover walls, trellises, posts, steps and topiaries Care Light watering in the first year After 3 -4 years will need pruning 2 – 6 times a year Foliage Arrangement :Opposite Composition : Simple Margin : entire Description Heart shaped to oblong leaves 1” – 4” Flower – inconspicuous Small pear shaped fruit Slow grower first 2 years then vigorous grower (Sleeps the 1st year, Creeps the 2nd and Leaps the 3rd_)
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