… Strict adherence to the cultural needs of this plant is essential. In residential areas, this plant is best grown in the consistently moist soils of a bog garden. The bog garden should be prepared in advance of planting. In the St. Louis area, the bog garden should be sited in a protected …
Type: Garden Guide Plant
… This Chinese lily is vigorous and easy to grow in neutral soil in partial shade, which accounts for its popularity. Late in the season it produces from 10 to 20 faintly scented, recurved deep-orange flowers, spotted in …
Type: Garden Guide Plant
… Feathery spikes of pink, honey-scented flowers in June and July are followed by the foliage turning purplish red with the onset of cooler temperatures in fall. This nonhardy grass from Africa is suitable for use in annual displays in the Chicago area. Plant 'Savannah' in full sun and moderately fertile soils. …
Type: Garden Guide Plant
… Description: The only visiting raptor may be seen in the woodland in summer, or more likely, flying over in September in large flocks or kettles of at 50 or more. …
Type: Birding
… petalled, strongly fragrant, pink double-flowered shrub rose with medium green foliage. In ideal conditions it grows very bushy and upright to a full size of roughly 5 feet high and wide, but can be pruned to smaller spaces. height, and 3 to 5 feet in breadth. This cultivar is very disease resistant and particularly winter hardy. Mary Rose® was named after Henry VIII's flagship, which sank in 1545 in battle with the French at the Solent. The wreck was rediscovered in the 1830's when a …
Type: Garden Guide Plant
… In addition to the large, architectural foliage typical of so many Rodgersias 'Cherry Blush' adds striking color. The leaves start out bronze in spring, then mature to green bordered in bronzed burgundy. Those dark leaves form an effective setting for the airy spikes of pink …
Type: Garden Guide Plant
… Brilliant cardinal red flowers begin in midsummer and peak in fall as this large, potentially hardy perennial explodes into flower. Plant this salvia in full sun and in average soil, and water it to get the root system established. This perennial …
Type: Garden Guide Plant
… clandonensis ‘Arthur Simmonds’ bluebeard won the prize as the hardiest cultivar of Caryopteris in the Ornamental Plant Evaluation trials at the Chicago Botanic Garden. This low-growing, … with silver undersides and clumps of violet-blue flowers at each node. Plant this bluebeard in full sun and in sandy, well-drained soil for best long-term survival in the Chicago region, where they don’t …
Type: Garden Guide Plant
… Coral pink tubular flowers appear on an unbranched spike in winter in Chicago. Their coloration contrasts nicely with the grey-green leaves with spikes along their edges that recurve back toward the base of the plant so that, when not in bloom, it looks like a spiky ball—hence the cultivar name Hedgehog. It will be perfectly happy …
Type: Garden Guide Plant
… This species is endemic to west Hubei, Sichuan and Yunnan provinces in China. It was first discovered in 1875 by a surgeon in the Russian army and introduced to western cultivation in 1908. It blooms heavily in winter …
Type: Garden Guide Plant
