Garden Notes - Old English Garden Flowers

• Ageratum
  A half hardy annual plant, which may be kept over the winter as a perennial.

• Auricula
  One of the oldest of our hardy perennial plants.

• Bleeding Heart or Lyre Flower
  A hardy perennial plant that is now called Dicentra Spectabilis.

• Calceolaria
  The ordinary bedding Calceolaria, a shrubby evergreen perennial plant.

• Columbine
  A hardy perennial plant that is admirably adapted for borders or large beds.

• Crown Imperial
  A hardy perennial bulbous plant that has long been a favorite in cottage gardens.

• Double Daisy
  The Daisies of gardens are double forms of the Wild Daisy, a dwarf perennial plant that is quite hardy.

• Dwarf Bindweed
  A hardy annual plant that is extensively grown in cottage gardens.

• Flowering Currant
  A hardy deciduous shrub grown principally for its bright rose colored flowers.

• Globe Flower
  A hardy perennial herbaceous plant of erect habit and useful for growing in shady places.

• Goat's Rue
  A hardy perennial plant with beautiful foliage.

• Godetia
  A hardy annual plant of which there are many beautiful varieties.

• Golden Rod
  A hardy herbaceous perennial plant useful for the border, wild garden, and also for cutting.

• Gypsophila Elegans
  A hardy annual plant largely grown for cutting.

• Heliotrope or Cherry Pie
  A half hardy perennial plant of semi climbing habit that is largely grown for its fragrant flowers.

• Honesty
  A hardy plant that may be grown as an annual or biennial

• Iberian Cranesbills
  A hardy perennial plant that is very useful for growing in rockwork, banks, and similar places.

• Italian Borage
  A hardy herbaceous perennial plant with bright purple flowers.

• Lily of the Valley
  A hardy low growing perennial that is a native of Great Britain.

• London Pride
  A low growing hardy herbaceous plant that has been grown in cottage gardens for many years.

• Love in a Mist
  A hardy plant that is very useful for cutting.

• Mallow
  A beautiful hardy annual plant that ought to be grown in every garden.

• Monkey Flower
  A hardy perennial herbaceous plant of dwarf, training habit.

• Night-Scented Stock
  A half hardy annual plant that is greatly prized for its fragrant flowers.

• Oleander
  A beautiful greenhouse shrub which may be stood outdoors during the summer and early autumn months.

• Perennial Flax
  A hardy perennial plant that is greatly prized for its blue flowers.

• Perennial Lupin
  A hardy perennial herbaceous plant that is very useful for planting in borders.

• Petunia
  A half hardy garden plant that is largely used for summer bedding.

• Plume Poppy
  A hardy perennial plant with a rapidly spreading root system.

• Pot Marigold
  A hardy annual flower of which there are a number of varieties.

• Primrose
  A low growing hardy herbaceous plant that is found wild in the hedge rows and copses of great Britain.

• Ranunculus
  A tuberous rooted member of the Buttercup family, and one of our oldest garden flowers.

• Red Hot Poker
  A hardy herbaceous perennial plant well adapted for the border or large beds.

• Rose Champion
  A hardy perennial plant that is sometimes known as Agrostemma Flos-Fovis.

• Scarlet Avens
  A hardy perennial plant that is useful for cutting.

• Sea Lavender
  A hardy herbaceous perennial plant that is very useful for growing in sea side gardens.

• Sneezewort
  A hardy herbaceous plant and native of Great Britain.

• Snowdrop
  A well-known perennial bulbous plant, of which there are several varieties.

• Soapwort
  A hardy herbaceous perennial plant specially adapted for the wilder parts of gardens.

• Solomon's Seal
  A free growing hardy herbaceous plant that is very useful for growing in semi wild places.

• Spiderwort
  A hardy herbaceous perennial plant that is seldom met with except in old cottage gardens.

• Spire Lily
  This used to be known as Hyacinthus candicans.

• St. John's Wort
  A very dwarf hardy shrub, sometimes called the Rose of Sharon.

• Sweet Jasmine
  A hardy shrub of rambling habit that is widely grown for its fragrant flowers.

• Sweet Bergamot
  A hardy perennial herbaceous plant suitable for growing in borders or beds.

• Sweet Woodruff
  A hardy perennial plant that is a native of this country.

• The Blue-Flowered Sage
  A hardy herbaceous perennial plant useful for borders on account of its blue flowers.

• Verbena
  The ordinary bedding Verbena, a hybrid, half-hardy herbaceous plant largely used for summer bedding.

• Virginian Stock
  A hardy annual flower largely used for edging pathways.

• Wild Hyacinth
  A hardy bulbous plant that is a native of Great Britain, being commonly known as the Bluebell.

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