… These traits, combined with its purple ray florets, produce an outstanding fall display in Chicago-area gardens. This cultivar was selected from a seedling of the original 'Milka' cultivar in the Netherlands and registered in 1999. It was in the 1990s that it was discovered that our native wild asters could be tamed, …
Type: Garden Guide Plant
… of buttercup yellow and the twigs are reddish. Numerous pink, bell-shaped flowers appear in spring and continue sporadically during the summer. As the petals fall, the tiny coral-pink calyxes continue to provide color. The foliage becomes burgundy in late fall and persists well into winter—it is evergreen in warmer climates. In the Chicago area, it should be planted in a sheltered situation. …
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… Beautiful five-to-nine- lobed leaves emerge early. The plant grows 18 feet in height with a similar spread. Use the Japanese maple as a specimen plant. May and June bring small reddish-purple flowers. The samaras, or winged fruits, mature in fall and turn a rich red. The foliage emerges as purple and turns red in the fall. This lovely small tree, native to the Far East, can be grown only in very protected …
Type: Garden Guide Plant
… Beautiful lobed leaves emerge early. The plant grows 4 to 6 feet in height with a narrower spread. Use the Japanese maple as a specimen plant. May and June bring small reddish-purple flowers. The samaras, or winged fruits, mature in fall and turn a rich red. The finely dissected folaige is light green turning yellow to orange in the fall. This lovely small tree, native to the Far East, can be grown only in very protected …
Type: Garden Guide Plant
… with a basal mound of scallop-edged, light green leaves 1 foot tall and 2½ feet wide. In late spring to early summer, tiny, star-shaped, greenish yellow flowers bloom in loose clusters atop 1½-foot stems. Raindrops are retained in beads on the leaves, giving it a sparkling appearance. It prefers average, medium, …
Type: Garden Guide Plant
… 6 to 10 feet. Renewal pruning will prevent the plant from becoming too leggy. Use this plant in the home landscape in mass plantings or borders. Small white flowers appear in late spring but are not particularly showy. Bright red pomes develop in fall, and they remain …
Type: Garden Guide Plant
… Snow-in-summer is a diminutive creeping plant that works best along the edge of a flower bed or in a rock garden, where it will not be shaded by other plants. With small, densely growing silver … ground, it is attractive even when it isn't covered with glistening white 5-petalled flowers in late spring to early summer. It is very cold hardy and tolerant of poor soils. This plant is …
Type: Garden Guide Plant
… This amazing cultivar can reach up to 15 feet in height and produce flowers up to 10 inches in diameter starting in mid-summer and continuing for six weeks into fall. Good retention of lower leaves and stout, …
Type: Garden Guide Plant
… a wonderful addition to a sunny perennial garden. It is fairly large and upright when grown in full sun, growing 4 feet wide and up to 6 feet tall. It tolerates a wide range of soils but prefers drier, well-drained beds. False sunflower blends in nicely in the late summer garden, with yellow flowers 2 to 3 inches in diameter, appearing in late …
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… tail ( Leonotis ocymifolia 'Savannah Sunset') produces bright orange, fuzzy, tubular flowers in whorls from mid-summer through fall. A native of Africa, this plant is not hardy in the Chicago area, but it will provide a colorful annual display if planted in full sun and not overwatered. The flowering stems reach 6 feet in height and the plant will …
Type: Garden Guide Plant
