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hummock
A mound rising above the surrounding land, usually overgrown with vegetation.
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'Elfin', the smallest, grows in tight hummocks of very deep green while the ground-hugging 'Minimus' has lilac flowers and a soft, greyish foliage.
Ideally suited for a dry place in the garden, oregano is a tough, hot-flavoured plant.
Shape the bag into a low hummock, making sure compost is evenly spread.
Pierce the base of bag for drainage and cut out the pre-marked planting squares or, if you are planting rows of salads, cut out a long rectangle.
You can choose from numerous shapes-rounded hummocks for the front of a border, columnar specimens for focal points, and trailing forms for draping gracefully over rocks, banks, or walls.
Wild blueberries often inhabit boggy areas, but the plants are actually perched on hummocks; likewise, give your backyard blueberries well-drained soil.
more southern locations, Heger suggests Erianthus ravennae, a Mediterranean plume grass that grows to 12 feet and has ornamental seed heads that resist shattering. Helictotrichon sempervirens, or blue oat grass, grows in symmetrical 2-foot hummocks ...
 See also: Flower, Plant, Spring, Grow, Variety
  
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