Some Plants Worth Growing

A gardener’s favorite plants

Today ’s photos come from Hugh Locke in Shrub Oak , New York .

A stone and gravel mulch make an efficacious background for a few well - chosen plants .

The fragrant white trumpet - material body bloom of a datura , which is similar to the pop tropical genus Brugmansia but has bloom that confront up instead of down and can be easily grown from seed as an yearbook .

Big container comprise caster beans ( Ricinuscommunis , Zone 10 or as one-year ) , another plant life easily grown from seed to farm a dramatic , tropical feel . This beautiful works is the beginning for castor oil , and the seeds also contain ricin toxin , a very potent toxin . If you are disquieted about growing this plant due to its toxic seed , simply cut off the flowers to forestall seed from acquire .

colourful annual make a great foreground in this lush , green garden .

vulgar garden phlox ( Phloxpaniculata , Zones 4–8 ) has got to be one of the most popular garden plants aboriginal to easterly North America , equally loved by homo and butterflies .

A tangle of decorative tobacco plant ( Nicotianaspecies ) with their beautiful pink and white-hot , fragrant flowers .

Cleome ( Cleomehassleriana , annual ) is native to South America but makes a wonderful display as an annual in colder clime .

A glow red daylily ( Hemerocallishybrid )

It is toilsome to vanquish the doubled Panthera tigris lily ( Liliumlancifolium‘Flore Pleno ’ , Zones 4–9 ) for bold over - the - top flower exhibit .

Heliotrope ( Heliotropesarborescens , Zones 10–11 or as an annual ) . This old - fashioned annual has the common name of “ cherry Proto-Indo European plant ” because apparently some mass call up its fragrant blossom reek like freshly broil cherry pie . Though traditionally grown as an yearly , if you bring it indoors when frost threatens , it can be overwinter to delight year after twelvemonth .

Hugh grew this foxglove ( Digitalispurpurea , Zones 4–8 ) from seed .

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