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Plants For The Waterside |
A. rubra grows four to six feet high with rosy-red flowers
and A. thunbergii is of erect habit, with spikes of white flowers
carried on reddish stems two feet high.
Astrantia major has unusual pink and green flowers on two-
foot stems. Bidens laevis, although an annual, seeds itself so
freely, that it comes up each year. It has golden-yellow flower
heads on one-and-a-half- to two-foot stems. Boltonia decurrens
is a very large-growing plant with leaves four to six inches
long and branching heads of white or purplish flowers.
Camassia hyacinthus grows twelve to eighteen inches high
and has racemes of light blue flowers.
C. quamash has dark blue flowers on two-foot stems and
bulbs of both are planted in the autumn.
Dodecatheons are beautiful spring-flowering perennials
having cyclamen-like blooms and rosettes of foliage. They
grow under the same conditions as the bog primulas, liking
half-shade. Propagation is by division in the spring or by seed.
D. meadia is a strong-growing plant twelve to fifteen inches
high with umbels of magenta flowers," the leaves being spotted
with purple.
Epilobiums need to be planted with care, for if allowed to
grow unchecked, they are liable to become a nuisance. They
have the common names of Rose Bay and Willow Herb.
E. augustifolium grows up to five feet high with rosy,
scented flowers. It has several forms including white.
Eryngium aquaticum is the Button Snakeroot with long
sharp-edged leaves and blue thistle-like heads, having long-
lasting qualities.
Eupatorium cannabinum is the Hemp Agrimony, growing
five feet or more high, its terminal clusters of purplish flowers
setting off the large palmate leaves. It likes a limy soil.
Filipendula is the proper name of the plants often referred
to as spireas. They are hardy perennials of herbaceous habit,
thriving in moist, rich soil in a sunny or semi-shaded position.
Meadow Sweet is the popular name of these decorative plants
for the poolside or river bank. Propagation is by division of
roots and less frequently, from seed sown under glass in early
spring.
F. purpurea, often listed as Spiraea palmata, is one of the
best species. Its well-cut foliage and deep rose flowers on
three-foot stems, appearing in the summer, combining to make
a first-class plant. There is a pretty form known as alba, with
white flowers.
F. rubra is another fine species with rosy-carmine flowers
while rubra venusta magnifica often reaching a height of five
feet has impressive rose-carmine plumes.
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