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Fort Worth Botanic Garden
It was an unusually cool and wet spring, and summer temperatures stayed below normal at Fort Worth Botanic Garden trials, said head grower Kathleen Cook.
Agastache: ‘Blue Fortune.’
Coreopsis: ‘Sweet Dreams.’
Dianthus: ‘Firewitch.’
Heliopsis: ‘Bressingham Doubloon.’
Hibiscus: ‘Flare.’
Phlox: ‘John Fanick.’
Salvia: ‘Dark Dancer.’
Tetraneuris scaposa.
For more: Kathleen Cook, Fort Worth Botanic Garden, 3220 Botanic Garden Blvd., Fort Worth, TX 76107; (817) 871-7688; fax (817) 871-8749; cookka@ci.fort-worth.tx.us; www.fwbg.com.
Texas A&M University, Overton
Most of the state experienced a cool and moist spring with no exceptions at Texas A&M’s Agricultural Research and Extension Center’s trial gardens in Overton. It turned warm but stayed moist until late June then went to hot and humid after the beginning of July, said Texas A&M professor Brent Pemberton. Vinca was infected by Southern blight during the cool, moist weather, he said.
Alternanthera: ‘Purple Knight.’
Cuphea: ‘Light Lavender.’
Impatiens: ‘Fanfare Orange.’
New Guinea impatiens: ‘Celebrette Grape Crush,’ ‘Celebrette Tropical Peach,’ ‘Tamarinda Orange’ and ‘Tamarinda Red.’
Pentas: ‘Galaxy White.’
Petunia: ‘Tidal Wave Silver,’ ‘Tidal Wave Cherry,’ ‘Purple Dream’ and Cascadia White.
Vinca: Diva series, ‘Big Ruby’ and ‘Pacifica Blush.’
For more: Brent Pemberton, Texas A&M University, Agricultural Research and Extension Center, P.O. Box 200, Overton, TX 75684-0200; (903) 834-6191; fax (903) 834-7140; b-pemberton@tamu.edu.
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