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A year in bloom... flowers by the month
January 27,1999
Depending on your climate it is possible to have a sequence of bloom for
every month of the year
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January
Plant |
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Colors |
| Flowering kale |
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| camellias |
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| Taiwan Cherries, snapdragons. Japanese Magnolias, petunia cascades,
pansy cascades, dianthus and delphiniums |
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February
Plant |
Botanical |
Type |
Colors |
| Tulips, daffodils, hyacinths, pansies, camellias, Japanese Magnolias,
ornamental kale and cabbage, foxglove, delphinium. |
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March
Plant |
Botanical |
Type |
Colors |
| Easter lilies, azaleas begin blooming, pansies, flowering kale and
cabbage, tulips, snapdragons, forced hydrangeas, impatiens, gloxinia,
yarrow, hollyhock and Trumpet Vine. |
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April
Plant |
Botanical |
Type |
Colors |
| Late blooming azaleas, dogwood, first roses bloom, Tung Oil Trees,
Chinese Fringe Trees and spring annuals including hydrangeas, impatiens,
pansies, fuchsia baskets and geraniums |
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May
Plant |
Botanical |
Type |
Colors |
| Roses, marigolds, tropical flowers and foliage, hydrangeas, allamandas,
hibiscus, crotons, caladiums, coleus, vinca, salvia, melapodium,
begonias, cleome and oleander. |
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June
Plant |
Botanical |
Type |
Colors |
| Roses, marigolds, tropical flowers and foliage continue, hydrangeas,
allamandas, hibiscus, crotons, caladiums, coleus, vinca, salvia,
melapodium, begonias, cleome and oleander |
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July
Plant |
Botanical |
Type |
Colors |
| Tropical beauties including allamandas, hibiscus, mandevillias,
coleus, diplodinia, bougainvillea, crepe myrtles and bottlebrush;
roses and summer annuals continue. |
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August
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September
Plant |
Botanical |
Type |
Colors |
| crepe myrtles give their last bloom, roses and late blooming annuals |
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Plant |
Botanical |
Type |
Colors |
| chrysanthemums usher in fall and signal end of summer. Mums are
augmented by drooping displays of Golden Showers, Cassia and roses. |
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November
Plant |
Botanical |
Type |
Colors |
| Camellias begin their winter show as the Chrysanthemum Extravaganza
comes to a peak. Tens of thousands of flowering cascade blooms. Nandina
and Winter Berry |
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December
Plant |
Botanical |
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Colors |
| Flowering kale and cabbage, pansies and camellias |
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