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Perhaps the rules for growing cardinal flower could be bent a bit.

What is more, hummingbirds and cardinal flowers are an important natural combination.

One of the most spectacular native plants to be seen now is the bright red cardinal flower.

One example is the popular cardinal flower and its close cousin, the great blue lobelia.

I'd like to plant more cardinal flowers and some ostrich ferns.

Call it cheating, perhaps, but the cardinal flower is known to need adequate moisture during its growing season.

Human activity also can interfere with the wildlife when getting the original seeds for your collection of "cardinal flowers".

Insects have a hard time of it and usually move along to other more accessible blooms, leaving the cardinal flowers to the birds.

The stately cardinal flower is another favorite of both hummingbirds and butterflies.

One recent exception deals with the cardinal flower.

Although not as brilliantly spectacular, a close cousin of the cardinal flower is the great lobelia.

They were cardinal flowers, in full bloom, swaying gently in the breeze.

So the cardinal flower was purchased as a potted seedling and bravely taken home.

Butterfly milkweed likes sunny meadows; cardinal flower is happy by a stream.

Plant some flowers that attract hummingbirds, like cardinal flowers and columbine.

A little goes a long way, too, in the case of cardinal flower (Lobelia cardinalis).

The red garden, for example, contains azaleas, Japanese maples, purple plums and cardinal flowers.

Popular biennials, like foxgloves, and perennials like cardinal flower are included.

The most common perennial lobelia is L. cardinalis, or cardinal flower.

This is the spectacular cardinal flower, particularly the newer deeper red one called Ruby Slippers.

The lady-slipper orchid and the cardinal flower have vanished from the refuge because people have picked them all.

When it blooms in late summer, cardinal flower provides a brilliant, fiery accent in the perennial garden.

Summer flowers include purple fringeless orchid and cardinal flower.

The rodgersias and the cardinal flowers and the Japanese iris perked up right away.

Cardinal flower and great blue lobelia are easily started indoors from seed, as is annual lobelia.

A little goes a long way, too, in the case of cardinal flower (Lobelia cardinalis).

If Lobelia cardinalis flower stems are left to produce seed, new plants will replace old ones.

Others, like Kniphofia hybrids and Lobelia cardinalis, are best divided in spring.

These include Lobelia cardinalis syn.

Cardinal flower botanically is Lobelia cardinalis.

Taking seeds or roots of lobelia cardinalis to start your collection will stunt the growth of the "cardinal flower" population.

This one is the cardinal flower (Lobelia cardinalis), which grows handsome and tall where the woods are deep and damp.

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Lobelia cardinalis (cardinal flower)Erect habit.

Lobelia cardinalis (cardinalflower), Ingredient of "schumaakwe cakes" and used externally for rheumatism and swelling.

I have mine in a small bog, alongside dark-green dwarf cattails, tall cinnamon ferns and the native American cardinal flower, or Lobelia cardinalis, in a form that has dark smoky purple leaves.

Lobelia cardinalis is related to two other Lobelia species in to the Eastern United States, Lobelia inflata (Indian tobacco) and Lobelia siphilitica (great lobelia); all display the characteristic "lip" petal near the opening of the flower and the "milky" liquid the plant excretes.

The tall, spiky effect of purple-leaved cannas or purple-red Lobelia cardinalis, for example, can be used in the centre for height, around which multicoloured plants like coleus can be used, framed or broken up by single-colour foliage plants, such as the cinerarias and pyrethrums, suggested in the table.