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Type: Perennial
Seed #: 35
Common Name: Snow in Summer
Latin Name: Cerastium mentosum
Variety: Snow Cap
Colour: White
Temperature: 20C - 25C (68F - 77F)
Zone: 2 - 10
Blooms: May to June
Site: Full Sun
Height: 10cm - 15cm (4" - 6")
Spread: 15cm - 20cm (6" - 8")
Seeds per pack: 50
Price: $2.79
Plant these to encourage birds and butterflies to visit your garden frequently. This plant produces amazing cutflower. This plant is deer resistant. This plant is a great water saver. Also perfect for the busy lifestyle gardener or just that dry area where nothing seems to grow.
Attracts
Butterflies		 Great
Cutflower		 Deer
Resistant		 Drought
Tolerant

Snow in Summer
Notes: Hardy, dwarf ,trailing and drought tolerant plants with silvery foliage, covered in a blanket of white blossoms. Great for rock gardens and walls. Early bloomer. Sheer spent flowers to promote further blooms.


Instructions: Sow 1 to 2 mm deep. Germination is 5 to 15 days.


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Red Hot Poker - Easy to grow! This evergreen perennial produces brilliant orange and yellow tubular flowers on slender spikes. They will tolerate wind and coastal conditions and thrives in a well drained, full sun, open location. For fuller more vibrant flowers, keep watered in hot summer months. Superb showy cut flower for large arrangements. Hummingbirds love this plant and will visit frequently. Dianthus - Easy to grow, clump forming growth habit and wonderful clove like scent makes it a great long-lasting, elegant cut flower or filler for table size bouquets. Perfect for beds and borders. Attracts butterflies. Lychnis - This perennial forms dense clumps of silver-white foliage and multi-branched, gray green stems and produces deep to moderate pink blooms for much of the summer.They are very drought tolerant, and are known to be deer resistant.
Red Hot Poker Dianthus Lychnis
(Kniphophia) (dianthus deltoides) (Lychnis coronaria)

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