April 30, 2000 Pictures

Customer's Greenery by Mary Carter

At Marjorie's, Tropical Fish Rd, Canaan ME

When your Ready for Planting Your Flower and Vegetable Garden...

Remember, Select Your Flowers and Vegetable Garden Plants....

At the Customer's Greenery Located At Marjorie's on the Tropical Fish Road

Acer rubra (Red maple)

	Spring cleanup at the Customer's Greenery
	Leonurus cardiaca (Motherwort) medicinal; readily reseeds
	Allium fistulosum (Welsh onion) Both the leaves and bulbs are edible
	Tansy (a great herb for repelling deer!)

	Sedum spurium 'Dragon's Blood' bronze foliage with deep red flowers; great groundcover
	Chives (second year plant)
	Stachys lanata (Lamb's Ear) Ground cover, mixed plantings, and contrast edgings
	Cerastium tomentosum (Snow in Summer) - early bloomer to use between rocks and stones
	Geranium sanguineum (Cranesbill geranium) blue flowers bloom in early summer

	Dianthus 'Spring Beauty'
	Sempervivum (Hens and chicks) another rock garden favorite
	Dianthus 'Zing'

	Lilium (Orange) Easy care flowers spread easily
	Phalaris arundinacea picta (Ribbon grass) Clumping green grass with white center stripe.

	Garlic chives - a true winter survivor
	Heuchera micrantha Palace Purple (Coral Bells) mahogany leaves with small white flowers in midsummer
	Malva sylvestris zebrina (zebra hollyhock) White striped purple saucer shaped flowers; blooms all summer long!
	Achillea ptarmica (The pearl) 18' mound of double white flowers in late summer

	Euphorbia (Cushion spurge) vigorous ground cover
	Monarda didyma (Bee balm) Blossoms attract bees and hummingbirds
	Orchids (Pale yellow)
	Artemesia ludoviciana albula (Silver King) silvery gray foliage grows to 3'; spreads rapidly!

	Taxacum (dandelion) great medicinal to regenerate liver cells

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