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I too love the ‘Tangerine Beauty’/Candytuft combination.
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I love all your Tulips, Frances, species and others, especially with the Candytuft – that is a stunningly beautiful bed you have there.
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Candytuft, Iberis sempervirens is a good groundcover for the bright orange colors.
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Candytuft is sometimes overlooked at a foil for tulips, but that cooling white lets the tulip stars shine.
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Besides the ordinary constituents of herbs, it is found to contain six per cent. of soft resin, together with a sulphuretted volatile oil, which is identical with that of Mustard, as obtained likewise from the bitter Candytuft, _Iberis amara_.
Herbal Simples Approved for Modern Uses of Cure William Thomas Fernie
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Candytuft Red June to 1/2 ft. Sow at intervals through
The Library of Work and Play: Gardening and Farming. Ellen Eddy Shaw
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This is a hybrid and much improved variety of the well-known evergreen and shrubby Candytuft, often called "Everlasting Candytuft."
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Candytuft is as easily increased as grown, by either layers or cuttings; the latter may be put in almost any time, early spring being the best; if put in in June, no better quarters can be given than under the shade of shrubs, where the soil is sandy loam.
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The hardy annuals are those that, like the Larkspur, Candytuft, etc., may be sown in the autumn, or very early in the spring in the open ground.
Your Plants Plain and Practical Directions for the Treatment of Tender and Hardy Plants in the House and in the Garden James Sheehan
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Candytuft, red, white, purple, Empress variety white the best, fine for edging; six inches; blooms continually if not allowed to go to seed.
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