How To Use Half-hardy In A Sentence
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Remember that half-hardy and tender plants should not be planted out until all danger of frost has passed.
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half-hardy annuals
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They raise roughly 4,500 hardy and half-hardy annual bedding plants each year from seed for containers and various areas of the garden including the box parterre.
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Once the all-clear sounds, the first job is to harden off the half-hardy annuals.
Jobs to do in May
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They raise roughly 4,500 hardy and half-hardy annual bedding plants each year from seed for containers and various areas of the garden including the box parterre.
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The present month is the one during which all tender or half-hardy plants used in summer gardening are "housed," or removed to their winter quarters under glass.
Little Folks (Septemeber 1884) A Magazine for the Young
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They are generally referred to as half-hardy perennials and therefore need some protection from frost.
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Sow half-hardy summer flowering bedding plants such as ageratums and begonias under cover.
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Sow some half-hardy annuals in a propagator.
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Tropical, architectural, often stripy, multicoloured foliage appears on these half-hardy plants.
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= = -- These require the same general treatment as advised for half-hardy annuals.
The Culture of Vegetables and Flowers From Seeds and Roots 16th Edition
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These peppers are half-hardy annuals, easy to grow from seed.
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DAVE SELF, WYLD WEST ANNUALS: These are Pentis; these are a great half-hardy perennial.
CNN Transcript May 13, 2007
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The awful thing is that they are all perfectly acceptable names for the same old-fashioned and rather modest little half-hardy perennial plant that used to be seen in garden flower borders all over.
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Some half-hardy exotics such as cordyline and callistemon
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You must observe that there are three kinds of plants which are said to have bulbous roots: those which are solid, and which should be properly called corms, such as the crocus, the corn-flag, and many of the half-hardy plants with similar half-tubular flowers; the tunicated bulbs, which may be peeled off in scales, such as the onion, the hyacinth, and the tulip; and the scaly bulbs such as the lily.
The Lady's Country Companion: or, How to Enjoy a Country Life Rationally
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In a sunny spot this half-hardy giant will reach 2m.
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These plants are half-hardy, so they will provide a glorious display all summer and into the autumn.
The Sun
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Many pinks are hardy perennials, while others are half-hardy and grown as annuals.
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This half-hardy perennial will overwinter in a sheltered spot in full sun.
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Late flowering annuals and half-hardy perennials, like Rudbeckia, Nicotiana, Chrysanthemum and Argyranthemum come into their own now, along with tuberous plants like Begonia, Dahlia and Canna.
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-- Elegant half-hardy annuals, which can be grown as specimens for the conservatory, or in quantity for open borders.
The Culture of Vegetables and Flowers From Seeds and Roots 16th Edition
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Half-hardy fuchsias and pelargoniums will need to be lifted, potted and sheltered for winter.
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Sow some half-hardy annuals for use a winter pot plants e.g. calceolarias, schizanthus and cinnerarias.
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There are two types: hardy and half-hardy annuals.
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Technically half-hardy, but in milder regions can easily get through a cold winter once semimature.
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There is a race of quill-drivers, confined in the columns of the budget between the first degree of latitude (a kind of administrative Greenland where the salaries begin at twelve hundred francs) to the third degree, a more temperate zone, where incomes grow from three to six thousand francs, a climate where the bonus flourishes like a half-hardy annual in spite of some difficulties of culture.
Father Goriot
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A half-hardy annual, this variety produces tall stems topped with feathery pure-white flowers.
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Some half-hardy exotics such as cordyline and callistemon
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The most satisfactory mode of cultivation is that of a half-hardy annual.
The Culture of Vegetables and Flowers From Seeds and Roots 16th Edition
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Salvia confertiflora is a half-hardy salvia with delicate orange bells along its stem.
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Ryle compares the “jargon” words of epistemology, ethics, aesthetics, etc. to “half-hardy annuals” rather than “hardy perennials” because there is no special field of knowledge (save philosophy itself) by which philosophers get their mastery of concepts, say, of Cognition, Sensation,
Gilbert Ryle
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The awful thing is that they are all perfectly acceptable names for the same old-fashioned and rather modest little half-hardy perennial plant that used to be seen in garden flower borders all over.
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March and the plants treated in the manner usual for half-hardy annuals, or a sowing can be made in the open towards the end of April.
The Culture of Vegetables and Flowers From Seeds and Roots 16th Edition
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Begin to harden off half-hardy plants in a cold frame or tucked under a sheltering wall outside.
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In the meantime, and if you have the room, it is canny to prepare your half-hardy annuals by acclimatising them to being outside.
The first taste of spring – at last
