Just as delightful and a true performer is the balloon flower or platycodon.

Learn about the balloon flower.

Preservatives also help extend baby's breath, balloon flowers, cosmos, monkshood, Mexican sage, asters, ageratum and zinnias.

While instructing Martha on how to make balloon flowers for a kid's backyard birthday party, Somekh was bit by a tick and contracted the illness.

The inflated buds of balloon flower open to bell-shaped blossoms on long, thin stems.

Another blooper involved platycodon, the elegant balloon flower.

Seen now are the browned-off stems of phlox, black-eyed Susans, balloon flowers and daylilies.

It turned out to be the same floppy species, the balloon flower, I had just staked in an effort to make it stand upright.

Candidates include nepeta, asters, garden phlox, balloon flowers, goldenrod and toad lilies.

"But this woman's grandmother had planted balloon flowers years ago, and she'd been looking all over for them, so she was very excited."