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1 Jan, 2008 By: Jamie Gooch LivescapesDouble the Color
Calibrachoa cultivar MiniFamous Double Blue from Selecta First Class is part of a double flowering series that includes three colors on trailing 4-inch-tall plants. The annual performs well in sunny baskets and containers.
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Double the Fun with Fiesta Double Impatiens
Fiesta double impatiens from Ball Horticultural Company display big, beautiful, fully double blooms from installation until the first frost. These well-branched plants fill in fast for quick landscape color. Fiesta varieties are "self-cleaning" and easy-care: there's no need to remove old blooms or pinch the plants back to keep them lush and full.
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An Award Winner
Goldsmith Seeds' Asti White Osteospermum recently won a 2008 AAS Award. As the first Osteo from seed available in separate colors, this plant is heat-and cold-tolerant. It blooms all season long and is versatile for spring, summer and fall.
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Pink as a Daisy
Molimba Pink from Proven Winners features mounds of single pink blooms. The 14-to 24-inch plants should be spaced about a foot apart. They can bloom from planting to the first hard frost and don't require deadheading. The Marguerite Daisies should receive full sun. They can be planted in landscapes or containers.
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High Contrast
Like the original green-leaved Nonstop Begonias, Benary's Nonstop Mocca offers large, 10-cm. double flowers in brilliant colors that stand out against the deep bronze leaf. Six colors are in this Begonia tuberhybrida series: Orange, Deep Orange, Scarlet, White, Yellow and its newest, Pink Shades (pictured).
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Watch Out for Avalanche
Using inter-species breeding, Avalanche Petunia from Bodger Seeds has a more spreading habit, better recovery from rain, and lasts longer in the garden. They are recommended for containers, baskets and beds. The Avalanche series provides earlier blooming baskets and pots, are uniform in habit across all 10 colors and produce a mounding plant before they begin to trail. In beds they will spread to 3 feet.
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