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The Love-In-A-Mist Miss Jekyll Blend, ‘Nigella damascena’, has delightful papery-textured flowers with thread-like foliage. Love-In-A-Mist is a quick blooming, cool season plant with flowers that look great in the garden, and as cut flowers. The flowers are 1 to 2 inches with white, light blue and dark blue blooms. The Miss Jekyll Blend blooms in the spring for 4 to 6 weeks until hot weather arrives. Love-In-A-Mist prefers full sun but will withstand some partial shade. The soil needs to be well drained and have average organic material. Spent flowers should be continually cut off to promote more blooms. Plant in the early spring, 2 to 4 weeks before the last frost or in warm winter climates plant in early fall. The Miss Jekyll is used for borders, dried flowers, cut flowers, and the seed pods look great in dried arrangements.

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Maxicrop is a great choice for those who do not want to use synthetic rooting compounds or for those who want to feed their plants more than 70 minerals, vitamins, and enzymes. Maxicrop is extracted from Norwegian seaweed. This all natural product has a guaranteed analysis of 1-0-4. The liquid is ready to dilute in water. Maxicrop is excellent for soaking seeds to improve germination. It also can be used as a soak for bulbs to increase their vigor. Apply it to seedlings, and watch them grow into healthy, vigorous plants. Maxicrop will strengthen cuttings, bare root trees and shrubs before and after transplant. Maxicrop can also be used as a foliar feed indoors or out. It can green up lawns, too. Remember, a healthy plant is a pest-free plant! The quart concentrate makes approximately 384 gallons. Usage/Rates: Soaking Seeds and Bulbs: Soak overnight in a solution of 1 tsp/gal of water. After planting, water with the same solution. Seedlings: Water

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The Lavender English Dwarf Hidcote, ‘Lavandula angustifolia’, is an improved dwarf variety of Lavender that stays 12 inches high and is very uniform and compact. The English Lavender Dwarf Hidcote has lots of flower spikes growing very dark purple, fragrant, 1/4 to 1/2 inch flowers. The Lavender blooms in late spring and into the summer. It also has the characteristic square stems of the mint family. The English Hidcote prefers full sun and loose, light, well drained soil. Do not fertilize, over rich soil will cause the plant to be less fragrant. Plant in early spring, as soon as the soil can be worked or in late fall. The Lavender can be used for a short hedge, edging, rock gardens, and pots. Lavender also are used in sachets and pot pourri.

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