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Romantic "Love" Plants for Your Garden

Here's our pick for some romantic plants to include in your garden next season. These hardy annuals and perennials come in all shapes, sizes and colors, all with a love-twist to their name sure to make your heart swoon.

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.

copyright HouseNet, Inc. 1997
written by Gene and Katie Hamilton

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