Flowerpedia,

Flowers fill our garden with color and wonderful fragrance, but do all need the same growth conditions?
Here is some info on the flower varieties in alphabetical order:

1) Anemone
2) Ageratum
3) Barlow columbine
4) Canna lily
5) Cleome spinalis
6) Columbine
7) Cosmos fizzy
8) Digitalis purpurea
9) Hesperis matronalis
10) Hollyhock
11) Ipomea purpurea
12) Lungwort
13) Reed palm

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