… This aster is a midwestern native and blooms in late summer-early fall with yellow centered flowers of pale violet, sky blue and rare occasions, white. The lower eaves are broadly ovate with a stiff texture and long petioles. It can reach a height of 3 feet with a similar spread, but should be clipped back by a fourth in early summer. This creates a …
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… This aster is a midwestern native and blooms in late summer-early fall with small yellow centered flowers of white. The stems and narrow leaves, which taper at the base, are covered with fine, fuzzy hairs. It can reach a height of 3.5 feet with a similar spread, but should be clipped back by a fourth in early summer. This creates a …
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… Scarcely resembling the common garden fuchsias with their large dangling flowers, this New Zealand coastal native is a creeping vine with tiny toothed round leaves, suitable for a hanging basket in a constantly warm, moist … four green segments, revealing purple-black spots. A circle of bright red anthers are tipped with blue pollen. True flower petals are actually absent, with the outer perianth tube providing …
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… to tropical America. Kohleria ‘Designer Evening Gown’, bred in Taiwan, has nodding flowers with bright pink tubes. The throats are white, heavily spotted with dark purple. The leaves are dark green with purple undersides. Kohlerias are characterized by soft, ovate scalloped leaves and tubular …
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… family native to tropical America. Kohleria ‘El Capital’ has small scarlet tubular flowers with small lobes. The interior is greenish-yellow spotted with red. The leaves are dark green with frosty green centers and red-veined beneath. Kohlerias are characterized by soft, ovate …
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… ( Rosa ‘Korbeteilich’) produces bright red blooms, 4 inches across on a 4-foot rounded bush with deep, glossy green, disease-resistant leaves beginning in mid-June until frost. The flowers … a slight fragrance. The 2000 American Rose Society selection committee presented this cultivar with an award, noting it is perhaps the deepest red of any rose on the market. Plant this rose in full sun and keep the soil moderately moist. Feed it periodically with soluble fertilizer solutions or top-dress with well-rotted manure in midwinter, and mulch it …
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… This variety, named after plant explorer Ernest Wilson, differs in minor characteristics, with needles straighter than the species, with a notch in the tips of the needles. The lavender-blue hue of the cones, which are set … tree, slowly falling apart as seeds are dispersed, leaving behind persistent central cores. With age, this tree can reach 75 in height with a narrow pyramidal form. With good, loose, …
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… petals and resemble orchids. The petals are magenta, fading to white at the base and streaked with carmine. A long staminal column protrudes from the flower like a hibiscus. Compound leaves have 5 to 7 leaflets. The trunk is bottle-shaped and swollen, covered with formidable stout thorns. Not winter hardy, this plant grows best with consistent moisture in humusy, well-drained soils in full sun. It tolerates some light …
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… of common milkweed, found on rocky slopes and waysides. Showy milkweed blooms during summer, with 3-inch spheres of starry pink flowers. The structure of the tiny flowers is complex, with 5 reflexed pink sepals and 5 forward-pointing petals. Each petal has a hood at the base and … seedpods are more hairy than common milkweed. New growth and flower stems are densely covered with white down. Growing 3-4 feet tall, the thick, unbranched stems are covered with large, oval, …
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… The prominent large white flag of Paphiopedilum Fred's Fantasy is alternately striped with green and maroon veins, while the two lateral petals are light green with dark maroon spots. The pouch, or cup, is maroon. The leaves are checkered with blocks of green and dark green, and are ornamental of themselves. …
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