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Author Topic: Mountain Cornflower (Centaurea montana) Bill The Garden Helper Member # 1 posted                       Mountain Cornflower Centaurea montana The Mountain Cornflower (Centaurea montana) is an easy to grow, upright perennial which forms large clumps which typically reach three feet tall. It begins producing it's bright flowers in late spring and will often continue blooming well into fall. The available colors include blue, white, red, pink, purple or white. Centaurea montana is hardy in USDA zones 3-9. It requires full sun, but can be grown in most ordinary garden soil, provided that it is well draining. It is fairly drought tolerant. The clumps should be divided in the spring or fall, every 2-3 years. These are Cedar Hill flowers! Posts: 11227 | From: Cedar Hill Washington | Registered: Aug 2002  |  Logged: 4.242.120.189 loz guests posted                 Fantastic pictures Bill, I especially like the second one....The colors are so vivid against the green.....I want a digital camera that can do that!!!!LOL Very nice! Logged: 63.49.143.79 plants 'n pots Garden Pro! Member # 1672 posted                       Terrific pictures of one of my favorite flowers! I have 3 of these plants and just love how blue they are! Very easy to grow, like you said, Bill. bbbbbbbbb Lynne's knitting journal "I'm spayed, declawed, and housebound - how's YOUR day going???" Posts: 17066 | From: Rockland County, NY | Registered: Nov 2003  |  Logged: 67.84.51.43 catlover The Cheetah! Member # 654 posted                       I like this plant! Awesome pictures!!!! Love the write up's...thank you...and we can now tell which plants are yours by the cedar hill note at the bottom of every page! bbbbbbbbb Posts: 7129 | From: California | Registered: Mar 2003  |  Logged: 68.66.244.5 GardenGirl a nobody Member # 2 posted                    Did you get a new cammie?? Or have you just gotten that much betterer??? bbbbbbbbb Posts: | From: Wa | Registered: Aug 2002  |  Logged: 24.17.102.199 Bill The Garden Helper Member # 1 posted                       It's the same camera... the flowers must just be brighter this year! Posts: 11227 | From: Cedar Hill Washington | Registered: Aug 2002  |  Logged: 4.243.43.166 dodge Garden Pro! Member # 6964 posted                       MAYBE BILL IS BRIGHTER THIS YEAR!!!!!! lOVE YOUR STYLE. BAL bbbbbbbbb ''''Those who live in the Lord Never See Each Other For The Last Time!'''' Posts: 3279 | From: Rural - Western Pennsylvania | Registered: Oct 2005  |  Logged: 198.77.40.99 Triss Garden Pro! Member # 3367 posted                    BEAUTIFUL!!!! bbbbbbbbb We are all under the same stars... therefore we are never far apart. Posts: 30076 | From: Washington, the state that is... | Registered: Aug 2004  |  Logged: 66.235.45.83

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