Freshen up your late-season gardens and containers

  • Peachy Keen, Pink and White Granvia strawflowers combine nicely, creating a colorful container garden. courtesy photo | Suntory Flowers
    Peachy Keen, Pink and White Granvia strawflowers combine nicely, creating a colorful container garden. courtesy photo | Suntory Flowers
    As summer winds down and fall approaches, your thoughts may turn to mums, asters and pansies. Consider changing things up this year by adding deer-resistant strawflowers to your latesummer and fall containers and gardens.Grow strawflowers ( Xerochrysum bracteatum formerly Bracteantha) in full to part sun and moist, well-drained soil. They are heat- and cold-tolerant, gr...

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