To encourage bushier plants with more flower spikes,pinch out the growing tips in springanddeadhead the spent flowersregularly. Cut off the flower spikes as close to the base as possible, and more will follow all through the season.
(Plants) an agave,Agave americana,native to tropical America but naturalized elsewhere, having very large spiny greyish leaves and greenish flowers on a tall fleshy stalk. It blooms only once in its life, after 10 to 30 years (formerly thought to flower after a century). Also called:American...
A series of rose-pink to purple flowers top the stems of fireweed. Each flower has four sepals and four petals with eight stamens and a four-lobed stigma extending prominently from the center. Its long, narrow ovary can be confused for a flower stalk. Rich with nectar, fireweed flowers ...
Snip off stems when about half of the flower buds have opened, cutting the stems as long as possible. Gather them into bundles and secure them with rubber bands. Dry the bundles of lavender by hanging them in a sheltered, cool, dark place with good air circulation. After a few weeks, ...
avalanche lily,Erythronium montanum- perennial herb having large white flowers marked with orange; found near the snow line in the northwestern United States tulip- any of numerous perennial bulbous herbs having linear or broadly lanceolate leaves and usually a single showy flower ...
black Piranha Plants with long stalks that appear after Bowser collects the Wonder Flower at the start of the game; Cloud Piranhas, dark Piranha Plants made of smoke that protect Bowser's Castle; and Note Piranha Plants (and their larger variants), fiery Piranha Plants resembling music notes ...
Dendrobium orchids produce long flower spikes and can produce them at most any time of year and in any number, depending on how much new growth has been produced during the year. Each spike holds many flowers, and many of these flower spikes hang down from the body of the plant. ...
We’re moving into the later stages of the spring baptisa season, but here are a couple images of two of our hybrids, taken on a recent photo shoot in the beds surrounding our parking lot. The top is Baptisia ‘Aspiring’ with its very tall lavender flower spikes. Below is Baptisia ‘...
The "obedient" part of the name comes from the curious habit the blossoms have of being held on a swivel, allowing the individual flower to rotate around the center stem and remain in place no matter where you turn them. It's a fun plant for kids to play with. Is obedient plant invas...
genus Indigofera, Indigofera - genus of tropical herbs and shrubs having odd-pinnate leaves and spurred flowers in long racemes or spikes Indigofera anil, Indigofera suffruticosa, anil - shrub of West Indies and South America that is a source of indigo dye bush, shrub - a low woody perennial...