Performing Plants Garden

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Plants do things! All the plants in this garden are active in some way. For example, The Mimosa leaves collapse when touched, the impatiens seed pods explode when touched. The Moonlight tepee features night flowering or smelling plants.

Others in the Performing Plants Garden include:

• Silver Sage (soft and fuzzy)
• Sensitive Plant (leaves collapse when touched)
• Globe Thistle (spiny and prickly)
• Lovely Leaves (leaves come in all shapes, sizes, colors and textures)
• Lady's Mantle (tiny hairs make water droplets shine like jewels)
• Love-in-a-Puff (makes a ball shaped puff, and the seeds inside have tiny heart marks)
• Evening Primrose ('Tina James' open when the sun sets in 15 seconds!)
• Scotch Thistle
• Obedient Plant (flowers will stay in place when moved, it's obedient)
• Moonflower
• Balloon Flower (opening buds look like a balloon)
• Gas Plant (flowers release a gas at night that may be lit with a match)
• Burdock (the sticking idea for "velcro")
• Compass Plant (leaves line up north and south)
• Portulaca (opens when the sun shines and closes when it's cloudy)
• Chia (forms a gel coat used to cover "Chia" pottery pets)
• Cup Plant (leaves trap water where frogs and toads rest)
• Day Flower (opens for one day)
• Mosquito Plant (may repel mosquitos)

Balloon Flower

Scotch Thistle

Moonvine

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