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Cleomes are strange looking flowers. They grow on long stocks and bloom as they grow. They have long spidery things that stick out all around the blooms giving them their strange look.
I plant these flowers along the back edge of my garden. They grow to approximately 4 feet tall so they help screen me from my neighbors once they’ve grown enough. I always try to grow some white ones as well as pink and purple. . .
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Spider Flower
Cleome hassleriana
(klee-OH-me) (hass-ler-ee-AH-na)
Synonyms: Spider Legs, Grandfather's Whiskers
This first picture is an abstract of a Cleome flower. Since it is an abstract it did go through some modification in Photoshop. This isn’t my favorite flower. I guess I am kind of neutral about this plant. At one time after mulching a large planting several sprouted and for years continued to self seed (which this plant does very well). Finally about two years ago no more came back and I was a little disappointed. I might have to break down and buy some next year to start the patch again. Since it is a tall annual with not much on the bottom it is best suited for the back of the border or in mass plantings. Beware of the smell for it is not pleasant. Kind of a weak skunk smell to my nose so you won’t want to plant them by the front door. . . .
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In between the scattered rain today I was out in the garden checking on the Cleomes and trying to collect a few seeds so I could scatter them into other areas of the garden. One of these annual plants can produce more seeds than you know what to do with, the trick is knowing when the seed pods are ripe so you can collect your Cleome seeds. . . .
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Cleome is one of my favorite annuals, it is one of the flowers I remember from my childhood, an older neighbor lady had spider flowers planted in her garden, they really caught my attention. I plant them every year some years they reseed themselves, some years they don't.
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via May Dreams Gardens on 1969-12-31, 19:00:00
This is
Cleome 'Linde Armstrong', one of the
Athens Select plants bred to do well in hot weather.
I've been reading some "disparaging remarks" about cleome
on several blogs
, remarks about it having an unpleasant smell and self-sowing all over the place. My apologies to those who wrote about cleome that I don't have the time or memory to find those blogs and link them here. (If you were one of those bloggers, send me a comment, and I'll update the post with a link. . .
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Posted by Carol Reblogged by Old Roses to cleome on 2006-08-25, 23:22:48
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They say that once you plant cleome, it is a friend for life. Like the kind of friend who comes over to your house, plops down on the couch, eats all your food, takes over the TV and never leaves.
You'd throw her out except, well, there was this time when you caught your boyfriend cheating on you and you were a wreck and that friend jumped in her car and showed up at the front door with a box of
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Cleome Sparkler
I finally have a camera!! I have been dying to take pictures of my garden but after the stealing of both of our cameras in Costa Rica, it has taken awhile to decide which camera to get to replace them. This is my son's replacement, identical to the one that was stolen. It is an Olympus and is just so easy to use. 
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I never would have grown cleome had a new gardening friend not pressed the seeds upon me. In my opinion, cleome look weedy. She, however, insisted that there was no better flower. I said, “What the hell,†and planted them with the rest of my annuals in March.
We both had very poor germination (the seeds were from Ed Hume), but I managed to raise three seedlings in a strawberry container. I don’t recommend strawberry containers for winter sowing, or even spring sowing. The many vents cause the soil to dry out rapidly. My poor cleome seedlings demonstrated their will to live, though, and hung on through the drought-like conditions. At last, I took pity upon them and planted them in the
witch hazel bed.
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