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Flowering plants that add vertical accents

There’s something very satisfying about a garden that has flowers at differing heights. It means we don’t only look down on our precious blooms, we also see them at eye level, or even have to look up to view the tops of flowering stems.

Flowering plants that add vertical accents are very often show stoppers, not only because of their height, but because of the individual flowers themselves standing tall and proud. Luckily, many of these beauties are easy to grow and reasonably unfussy about the growing conditions. As long as they aren’t situated in a wind tunnel, most of them will grow into sturdy plants that produce an abundance of blooms.

Here are some of my

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