… . Our specimens by the Krasberg Rose Garden, planted in 1995, are turning into beautiful trees with nice, straight trunks and branches that arch outward. The leaves are small and toothed. Fall color is an outstanding rich red, with central veins that often remain green. It was one of many attempts to replace the American elm with hybrids resistant to Dutch elm disease. This pyramidal tree grows to a height of 40 feet …
Type: Garden Guide Plant
… This is another dwarf (5’ X 5’) cultivar that will form a dense, irregular pyramid with forest green needles. It will do best in a sunny location with well-drained soil. …
Type: Garden Guide Plant
… This evergreen shrub grows to a maximum height of 78 inches with full shade, partial shade, and full sun with moderate moisture conditions. It can be used in a hedge. …
Type: Garden Guide Plant
… Belle’ produces foot high ‘hooded pitchers’ that somewhat resemble a red and pink cobra with white markings. A carnivorous plant adapted to acidic bogs where nitrogen is severely limited, it produces a combination of water and sugar with digestive enzymes at the bottom of the pitcher. Insects looking for a drink of water or some … the lining of the pitcher. Old pitchers that are no longer functional are frequently filled with an interesting collection of insect exoskeletons (the acids don’t dissolve chitin). …
Type: Garden Guide Plant
… Queen Victoria Agave is a variable succulent with ball rosettes of straight or incurved, triangular-oblong, white-marked dark green leaves 6 to 12 inches long with thick rounded tips, each with a brown terminal spike. The leaf margins are entire but may have small white spines. In …
Type: Garden Guide Plant
… Bright, golden-yellow trumpets with orangish tubes are produced sporadically throughout the year on a mounding nonhardy shrub with grey-ish green leaves with a silver sheen. A native of Brazil, this smaller selection of Allamanda's combination of …
Type: Garden Guide Plant
… features of the species but without the hazardous thorns. In June, the tree is covered with beautiful clusters of white flowers with a strong fragrance, or odor, depending on your opinion. The small oblong leaves are glossy … and orange in fall. It will grow to 30 feet, but we have found it makes a nice barrier hedge with its dense branching and takes well to shearing. …
Type: Garden Guide Plant
… Sand phlox is a mat-forming perennial with narrow, needle-like leaves, that grows to a height of 6 inches with full sun to partial shade and moderate moisture conditions. It is native to sandy, open woodlands and prairies in the Midwest and to the Ozarks. The blue to white blooms, with five deeply notched petals,attract butterflies in May and June. It is suitable in the front …
Type: Garden Guide Plant
… This is a large-flowered climber with yellow-green leaves that produces large, showy, double white, 4 to 5 inch flowers with cream anthers on a vine that can grow 6 to 8 feet high. …
Type: Garden Guide Plant
… do love their perennials. They delight in watching them grow and artfully combining them with neighboring plants. They savor those "in bloom" moments, and they generously share their stock (sometimes) with friends. But most of all, they love to discover new ones. Gaura lindheimeri is a relative … from the bottom up, in gladiolus fashion. These slender flower stems tend to wave in the wind, with the flowers dancing like tiny butterflies. Gaura must be grown in full sun, in soil that …
Type: Plant Info
