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Word of the Week: Raceme
raceme [ rey-seem, ruh-seem] noun: a flower cluster with separate flowers attached by short equal stalks at equal distances along a central stem (flowers at base develop first). Racemes can be simple or compound.
When you see grasses forming wispy or fluffy heads in the summer, you probably don’t immediately think, “Oh what pretty flowers!” But flowers, they are, their arrangement often described as racemes. Continue reading
Posted in Illustrated Glossary, Word of the Week, WoW
Tagged Baptisia australis (blue wild indigo), Claytonia virginica (spring beauty), Clethra alnifolia (sweet pepperbush), Convallaria spp. (Lily-of-the-valley), Lobelia cardinalis (cardinal flower), Pedicel, Persicaria virginiana (Virginia knotweed), Phlox paniculata (garden phlox), Raceme, Schizachyrium scoparium (little bluestem), Sessile, Spike, Spikelet, Wisteria frutescens (American wisteria)
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Planning for the Red, White, and Blue: Part 2
Interested in planting your own red, white and blue garden to bloom this July? Enjoy this article by Mary Free that includes plants from the MGNV demonstration and other gardens on or around July 4 which are actually coloring the landscape red, white, and blue. Continue reading
Posted in MG in the Garden, Public Education
Tagged Achillea millefolium (yarrow), Actaea–formerly Cimicifuga–racemosa (common black cohosh), Adenophora confusa (ladybells), Agastache spp. (giant hyssop), Cephalanthus occidentalis (buttonbush), Clethra alnifolia (sweet pepperbush), Delphinium carolinianum (Caroilina larkspur), Echinops ritro (small globe thistle), Hemerolcallis cultivars (daylily), Hydrangea arborescens (wild or smooth hydrangea), Hydrangea macrophylla, Hydrangea quercifolia (oakleaf hydrangea), Kniphofia uvaria (red-hot poker), Lagerstroemia (crape myrtle), Leucanthemum x superbum ‘Becky’ (shasta daisy), Lilium spp. (lily), Lithodora diffusa (lithodora), Lonicera sempervirens (trumpet honeysuckle), Lychnis chalcedonica (Maltese cross), Lysimachia clethroides (gooseneck loosestrife), Monarda didyma (scarlet beebalm), Oxydendrum arboreum (sourwood), Papaver orientale (oriental poppy), Perovskia atriplicifolia (Russian sage), Phlox paniculata (fall or garden phlox), Platycodon grandiflorus (balloon flower), Rosa (rose), Ruellia humilis (wild petunia), salvia, Salvia microphylla ‘Hot Lips’ (small leaf sage), Scabiosa ‘Butterfly Blue’ (pincushion flower), Sedum album (white stonecrop), Spigelia marilandica (Indian pink), Veronicastrum virginicum (Culver’s-root)
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