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Ageratum

Ageratum 

Long Island Nursery Plants Characteristics – fluffy powder puff flowers in flattened to slightly rounded clusters atop compact mounded plants. Height range is from 4"-18" tall. Flower is sky lavender and foliage is round with hairy bases. Blooms late spring to frost.
Long Island Nursery Plants Light – full sun to light shade
Long Island Nursery Plants Moisture – well drained soils, normal watering.
Long Island Nursery Plants Deadhead to prolong flowering
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Amaranthus

Amaranthus

Long Island Nursery Plants Characteristics – a showy exotic plant, long rope like flowers cascade to the ground from tall erect red branching stems. Breathtaking in green or red, 3'-4' in height blooms in summer through the fall.
Long Island Nursery Plants Light – full sun to light shade
Long Island Nursery Plants Moisture – well drained soils, normal watering.
Long Island Nursery Plants May need staking, great for pots and cut flowers
begonia

Begonias

Long Island Nursery Plants Characteristics – showy flowers with four petals, in pairs of two with attractively marked leaves.
Long Island Nursery Plants Light – full shade to part sun.
Long Island Nursery Plants Moisture – well drained soils, extra watering during its growth.
Long Island Nursery Plants Great for hanging plants, and containers
calibrachoa

Calibrachoa 'Superbells'

Long Island Nursery Plants Characteristics – produces hundreds of small flowers that look like petunias, compact mounded plants grows 3-9" tall. Color shades include violet, blue, pink, red, magenta, yellow and white.
Long Island Nursery Plants Light – full sun
Long Island Nursery Plants Moisture – well drained soils, drought tolerant.
Long Island Nursery Plants Use in pots and hanging baskets.
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Cleome hassleriana - Spider flower

Cleome hassleriana - Spider flower

Long Island Nursery Plants Characteristics – produces spiky like flowers, which are held on a tall strong leafy stem. A new flower develops everyday elongating the stem up to 6’ tall. Blooms May through September.
Long Island Nursery Plants Light – full sun
Long Island Nursery Plants Moisture – well drained soils, tolerates dryer soil, normal watering.
Long Island Nursery Plants Great as backdrops for beds and borders
coleus

Coleus

Long Island Nursery Plants Characteristics – very showy foliage with multiple arrays of colors and distinct veins. Grows 1’-3’ in height, leaves have a furry texture.
Long Island Nursery Plants Light – part shade to part sun
Long Island Nursery Plants Moisture – well drained soils, normal watering.
Long Island Nursery Plants Great for containers, beds and borders
daihla

Dahlia

Long Island Nursery Plants Characteristics – comes in a wide range of shapes, sizes and especially colors. They produce layers of pointy petals.
Long Island Nursery Plants Light – full sun
Long Island Nursery Plants Moisture – prefers sandy well drained soils, normal watering.
Long Island Nursery Plants Great for beds, borders and cut flowers
Dusty Miller

Dusty Miller

Long Island Nursery Plants Characteristics – silver gray foliage grows 6”-10” tall. Foliage is very soft to touch, no flower but lasts from early May to September.
Long Island Nursery Plants Light – full sun to light shade
Long Island Nursery Plants Moisture – well drained soils, tolerates drought, normal watering.
Long Island Nursery Plants Great for beds, borders and containers
geranium

Geranium

Long Island Nursery Plants Characteristics – produces a 5 petaled flower in a cup shape that floats on top of the stem. Foliage is serrated or loped, starts to bloom mid summer.
Long Island Nursery Plants Light – full shade to part sun
Long Island Nursery Plants Moisture – well drained soils, normal watering.
Long Island Nursery Plants Deadhead to prolong flowering, great for containers and hanging baskets
Gerber-Daisy

Gerber Daisy

Long Island Nursery Plants Characteristics – the flower has two rings of multi layered florets in a variety of colors. The appearance of one large flower, but is made up of hundreds. Height is 6”-18”. Flowers spring to fall.
Long Island Nursery Plants Light – full sun
Long Island Nursery Plants Moisture – consistently moist soils, normal watering.
Long Island Nursery Plants Deadhead to prolong flowering
helichrysum

Helichrysum petiolare 'Limelight' - Licorice Plant

Long Island Nursery Plants Characteristics – foliage is bright chartreuse to yellow color that is covered with a velvety down. Climbing, spreading plant with pleasant licorice fragrance.
Long Island Nursery Plants Light – full sun to light shade
Long Island Nursery Plants Moisture – prefers, well drained soil, drought tolerant
Long Island Nursery Plants Use in hanging baskets and pots.
impatients

Impatiens

Long Island Nursery Plants Characteristics – the flower has five petals around a star shaped disc center. Comes in a wide range of colors 8”-24” blooms from late spring into the fall. The foliage is a glossy green. New Guinea variety is popular.
Long Island Nursery Plants Light – full sun
Long Island Nursery Plants Moisture – consistently moist soils, normal watering.
Long Island Nursery Plants Deadhead to prolong flowering
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Ipomoea batatas

Ipomoea batatas

Long Island Nursery Plants Characteristics – it is grown mostly for its foliage, it is fast growing twining vine with attractive lobed leaves. It has a beautiful trailing, cascading effect. Comes in chartreuse which is a vibrant yellow green and ‘Blackie’ which is a dark purple.
Long Island Nursery Plants Light – full sun to light shade
Long Island Nursery Plants Moisture – well drained soils, normal watering.
Long Island Nursery Plants Great for containers
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lantana

Lantana camara

Long Island Nursery Plants Characteristics – foliage is large rough leaves, that are abundantly covered through the summer with brightly colored flower clusters. Flowers come in white, yellow, gold, orange and red.
Long Island Nursery Plants Light – full sun to part shade
Long Island Nursery Plants Moisture – prefers, well drained soil, drought tolerant
Long Island Nursery Plants Use in hanging baskets and pots.
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Lobularia

Lobularia maritima - Sweet Alyssum

Long Island Nursery Plants Characteristics – a mat forming plant that produces spreading mounds of well branched stems with linear, lance-shaped gray green leaves. Produces dense clusters of sweetly fragrant, tiny white 4 petaled flowers. Other colors available are pink, rose, lavender, purple and apricot.
Long Island Nursery Plants Light – full sun to part shade
Long Island Nursery Plants Moisture – prefers, well drained soil, drought tolerant
Long Island Nursery Plants Use in rock gardens and pots.
new-guinea

New Guinea Impatiens

Long Island Nursery Plants Characteristics – compact, succulent subshrubs with branches growing 1-2' tall, leaves are long and narrow, green, bronze or purple. Flowers are white, pink, lavender, purple, orange and red.
Long Island Nursery Plants Light – full sun
Long Island Nursery Plants Moisture – moist soil
Long Island Nursery Plants Use in masses of color in beds and borders as well as pots.
petunia

Petunia

Long Island Nursery Plants Characteristics – normally a funnel shaped flower, they also can be ruffled, fringed or doubled in star patterns with contrasting foliage. They come in every color except orange, leaves and stems are sticky.
Long Island Nursery Plants Light – full sun
Long Island Nursery Plants Moisture – well drained soils, normal watering.
Long Island Nursery Plants Great for pots and hanging baskets
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Petunia 'Purple Wave'

Long Island Nursery Plants Characteristics – a trailing form, growing only 6" tall, the plant spreads 3-4' and are completely covered with masses of 3" eye popping purple flowers.
Long Island Nursery Plants Light – full sun
Long Island Nursery Plants Moisture – prefers, well drained soil
Long Island Nursery Plants Use in hanging baskets and pots.
Scaevola

Scaevola aemula 'Blue Wonder'

Long Island Nursery Plants Characteristics – foliage is thick leaves on erect sprawling stems. Produces masses of blue, lilac or white flowers with yellow throats.
Long Island Nursery Plants Light – full sun to part shade
Long Island Nursery Plants Moisture – prefers, well drained soil, drought tolerant
Long Island Nursery Plants Use in hanging baskets and pots.
Tagetes patula

Tagetes patula

Long Island Nursery Plants Characteristics – small upright bushy plants with dense arrangement of rays that come in yellows, oranges and bronze shades. They grow from 6”-12” in height they bloom continuously until frost.
Long Island Nursery Plants Light – full sun
Long Island Nursery Plants Moisture – well drained soils, normal watering.
Long Island Nursery Plants Deadhead to prolong flowering, great for edging and borders
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verbena

Verbena

Long Island Nursery Plants Characteristics – grows in clumps that reach 6-10" tall with trailing habit. The flowers bloom in clusters and come in a variety of colors such as mauve, apricot, purple, pink, white or red.
Long Island Nursery Plants Light – full sun
Long Island Nursery Plants Moisture – well drained soils, drought tolerant.
Long Island Nursery Plants Use in rock gardens, edging for beds and pots.
Zinnia elegans

Zinnia elegans

Long Island Nursery Plants Characteristics – the flowers are ray petals around a large disc eye both single and doubled flowers available. Grows 1’-4’ in height comes in every color except blue. Blooms from May on.
Long Island Nursery Plants Light – full sun
Long Island Nursery Plants Moisture – well drained soils, normal watering.
Long Island Nursery Plants Deadhead to prolong flowering, great for borders and cut flowers