… Glowing lavender pink double flowers 'pop' against the dark maroon foliage starting in late summer and continuing into fall. This cultivar is smaller statured, reducing the need to stake the plants to keep them upright when they come into flower. Plant dahlias in the garden in June, after the risk of late spring freezes has passed, and in sunny, well-drained locations …
Type: Garden Guide Plant
… Thin leaves in typical iris "fans" produce tall stems that provide a multitude of cheery gold flowers flecked in orange in the height of summer. Each flower is short lived but he large inflorescence insures a number …
Type: Garden Guide Plant
… Obedient Plant is an erect, deciduous perennial best in perennial borders in moist, full-sun locations. It produces grayish-green leaves with white margins and magenta pink flowers. Its flowers remain in the position in which they are placed. It is a showy plant that spreads rapidly if its …
Type: Garden Guide Plant
… larger lavender-lilac flowers on shorter flowering stems. The plants reach close to 3 feet in height by the end of the growing season in Chicago-area gardens. Their honey-like fragrance is a powerful attractant for pollinating insects and hummingbirds. Plant this perennial in full sun. In USDA Zones 7 to 10, gardeners should deadhead the flowers to prevent seedlings …
Type: Garden Guide Plant
… Hellebores or Lenten roses are prized for their flowers which appear in late winter or early spring and are often the first flowers to appear in the Chicago garden. The purple Christmas rose hellebore is native to the Carpathian mountains of central Europe where it grows in full sun in open grassy meadows. In general it grows into a low mound about twelve inches tall …
Type: Garden Guide Plant
… (3’ X 3’) with golden foliage. Tiny white flowers that are attractive to butterflies grow in small, flattened clusters in late spring on new wood. The foliage turns shades of orange, red, and purple in the fall. Birchleaf spirea is named for the shape of its leaves, which resemble those of the …
Type: Garden Guide Plant
… Q. When is the best time to divide perennials? A. Perennials can be divided in either spring or fall. As a general rule, divide spring-blooming plants in the fall and fall-blooming plants in the spring to avoid disrupting their bloom cycles. The majority of perennials are divided in …
Type: Plant Info
… is a rare and endangered shrub native to Korea that features white-to-pink fragrant flowers in very early spring. Growth requirements and landscape uses are similar to forsythia, and … the color of the flowers, the two genera share a number of characteristics. First described in Korean scientific literature in 1919, by the 1930s it was being grown in North America and Europe (where it won an Award of …
Type: Garden Guide Plant
… Agaves are rosette-forming perennials growing in the desert and mountainous regions of North, Central, and South America and in the Caribbean. They bloom once at maturity, which can be anywhere from 5 to 40 years. Most … plants die after flowering and are not frost hardy. Commonly grown as an outdoor ornamental in southern California, dragon agave has thin, wide, pale gray-green leaves that are soft, …
Type: Garden Guide Plant
… two types of flowers. The first are double purple blooms 4-5” produced on the old wood in the late spring and early summer and second are semi-double and produced on the current season’s new wood in late summer to early fall. Grow in sun or part shade in a protected spot to prevent damage to the flowers. Multi Blue is a member …
Type: Garden Guide Plant
