Many of the plants featured in this quiz are used in formal bedding schemes but they generally lack the intensity of colour of the plants included in our bedding plant quiz. Nonetheless each plant has its merits and every one of the species here will be a particular favourite of many gardeners.
Colours can be mixed together in an annual border without any problem but you will need to give some thought to the sizes of the respective plants. If you plant a row of sunflowers in front of your Portulacas you will see little of the Portulacas!
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The plants are often known as 'pinks'. The original meaning of pink inferred a perforated pattern as at the outside of Dianthus flowers
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This name is most often used in America where it is said that Native Americans made blankets with similar colouring to gaillardia flowers
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Young Sunflower plants do track the sun but mature ones settle on constantly pointing East. Remember this when you are planning where to put them!
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Sweet Williams are Dianthus Barbatus. They look very unlike the familiar garden pinks BUT the frilled edge to the petals in each flower is a giveaway that they belong to the Dianthus family
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In American they drop the 'u' the same way that they do with 'favorite' and 'color'!
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