Romantic "Love" Plants for Your Garden
Love-lies-bleeding is a bright red tassel flower in the Amaranthus family that grows three to six feet tall. It's a lovely background plant against a wall or fence that enjoys full sunshine. Another annual with a romantic name is Love-in-a-mist, a delicate jewel-like fennel flower that's ideal for dried arrangements as well as a border plant. With misty green foliage the plant has flowers of white, rose, blue and lavender that nestle in one-foot mounds. Verbena hybrid, called Romance Mixed is a low, fast-growing annual with clusters of compact purple, red and white blossoms, used often in rock gardens, containers and as ground cover. Radar Love is a perennial vine in the Clematis family that sports masses of canary-yellow blossoms that are ideal for trellis and fence climbing. And of course, the most romantic plant of them all - the formal rose, Rosa Love. Its velvety pink and red blossoms are a popular choice for cuttings. The plant is a handsome three-to-four foot shrub that enhances any garden.
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