… tree that reaches 10 to 12 feet in height. Its dark gray bark is smooth and sometimes mottled with brown, with obscurely angled branchlets that soon become terete (circular or cylindrical), with spreading, stiff, cream-colored hairs. The feathery foliage is pale green with cream-colored …
Type: Garden Guide Plant
… to send out runners and pop up where you didn't plant it. This is a large shrub, 8-10' tall, with branches that start out upright and arch outward. The leaves are compound with usually 7 toothed leaflets. The light brown stems are covered with warty lenticels. The leaves and stems are mildly toxic. Large flat clusters of white flowers …
Type: Garden Guide Plant
… This non-flowering evergreen shrub grows to a maximum height of 5 feet with full shade, partial shade, and full sun with moderate moisture conditions. It belongs in a hedge. …
Type: Garden Guide Plant
… between the planted fields and a talented kitchen, and seeks to erase that distance. With an education in American history, more than two decades of professional experience with plants, and a profound passion for food, he has found, at Blackberry Farm , a place to combine his talents. During your time spent with him, you will discover different uses of familiar wild and cultivated plants (and even …
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… northern Argentina. It starts as a flattened globe and grows into a6-inch blue-green cylinder with up to 14 ribs that are spotted with tiny black spines that emerge from fuzzy white areoles. If you are lucky, one or two … stalks. The flower stalks and buds are covered in dense hairs and the outer petals are tipped with spines. This plant does not like to be touched! In its native habitat, this species is …
Type: Garden Guide Plant
… in the landscape,this shrub grows to 8 to 10 feet in height and has a wide-spreading habit, with thick branches that do not lend themselves to shearing or pruning. This very outstanding … shrub flowers in July and August when few other shrubs are in bloom. Long white petals with reddish-pink anthers and stamens are borne in spikes that are 8 to 12 inches long and 2 to 4 inches wide. Typical buckeye leaves are palmate, with five toothy leaflets. Smooth brown nuts in husks ripen in late fall. Bottlebrush buckeye is …
Type: Garden Guide Plant
… 'Joyce Fountain', a cultivar released in 2008, is classified as a reflexed chrysanthemum, with cascading petals giving it the appearance of a fountain or a mop. The color is unusual: burgundy on the outer petals with tan undersides that are only noticeable as the new petals unfold. The flowers are large and … the smaller buds so all the plant's energy goes into the remaining buds. The result is a plant with only three to five stems, each topped with a very large flower. This type of chrysanthemum …
Type: Garden Guide Plant
… Late boneset, also known as late-flowering thoroughwort, is an upright perennial with opposite leaves topped with sprays of small white flowers in August and September. It reaches a height of four to five … as the flattened clusters of flowers develop. The stems and cylindrical calyxes are covered with fine down. It is very similar to tall boneset, blooming at the same time, but can be …
Type: Garden Guide Plant
… Black Dragon cryptomeria ( Cryptomeria japonica 'Black Dragon') adds value to the landscape with its thick, pyramidal growth habit and height of 6 to 10 feet with a spread of 4 to 6 feet. Its striking color contrasts well with other landscape foliage and appears almost black in lower levels of light. New growth …
Type: Garden Guide Plant
… Jerusalem artichokes are tall native sunflowers with edible tubers. Plants that reach 7 to 8 feet tall are topped with yellow daisies with 10 to 20 petals and a yellow disc in late summer to fall. It has large ovate leaves with …
Type: Garden Guide Plant
