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Type: Perennial
Seed #: 10
Common Name: Four o clocks
Latin Name: Mirabilis jalapa
Variety: Marvel of Peru
Colour: Pink & Yellow
Temperature: 18C - 22C (64F - 72F)
Zone: 8 - 11
Blooms: June to September
Site: Full Sun or Part Shade
Height: 50cm - 100cm (20" - 39")
Spread: 30cm - 60cm (12" - 24")
Seeds per pack: 0
Price: $0.00
Plant these to encourage birds and butterflies to visit your garden frequently. This plant is scented.
Attracts
Butterflies		 Scented

Four o clocks
Notes: Marble coloured trumpet shaped flowers. Slightly sweet scented. Grows a tuber that may be stored as you would a dahlia or left in well drained ground in warmer climates. Flowers only open when the sun is shining


Instructions: Sow 2 to 3 mm deep. 7 to 14 days.


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Scabiosa - Scabiosa is also known as Knautia. This plant is drought tolerant, deer resistant, a great cut flower and attracts butterflies in bloom and birds when going to seed. Self sows and new plants are easy to transplant elsewhere in Spring if needed. The dried heads look great in dried flower arrangements.Great for that dry area in your garden. Does well in dry conditions like borders or rock gardens. Lambs Ear - Low growing ornamental plant with SUPER fuzzy leaves and flower spikes producing brilliant pink blossoms. Lambs Ear is deer resistant, drought tolerant. Giant Yellow Scabiosa - A rarely seen, bold plant for large beds and borders. 1 - 2 ft. clump forming plant with large deeply lobed leaves that produces a profusion of pale yellow pincushion like flowers, on stems that reach 6 to 10 feet. Attract butterflies and other nectar lovers to your garden. Good drought tolerant, cut flower with a long bloom period and vase life when flower is harvested just as it is opening.
Scabiosa Lambs Ear Giant Yellow Scabiosa
(Scabiosa caucasia) (Byzantine stachys) (Cephalaria gigantea)

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