… This perennial rises to a height of 4 feet with full sun and moist soil conditions. It has white blooms with a red eye that attract butterflies from July through October and is resistant to deer. It is …
Type: Garden Guide Plant
… This is a vigorous, late-blooming climber with small bell-shaped flowers that open with azure blue petals recurved at the tips and creamy green anthers. The 3-inch flowers are …
Type: Garden Guide Plant
… Ghost painted fern is a clump-forming fern that requires partial to full shade with moderate moisture. It grows to a maximum height of 30 inches with a similar spread. It is mostly used as a ground cover, an understory, or in a border. …
Type: Garden Guide Plant
… native to Central America. The flower is 1½ inches across and cream to greenish-cream colored, with a white shell-shaped lip, streaked with bright purple. The flowers are extremely fragrant. It blooms from January through April. …
Type: Garden Guide Plant
… One foot tidy mounds of fern like foliage are covered in early spring with cotton candy pink and white flowers with a red base. Plant in full sun to partial shade in moderately fertile soils. Protect from …
Type: Garden Guide Plant
… varieties for forcing. To start an indoor bulb garden, use shallow pots 4 to 12 inches wide with drainage holes. Partially fill them with a commercial soilless mix or a homemade mixture of one part garden soil, one part peat moss, and one part perlite. Then place a single layer of fresh bulbs with their noses pointing up and the sides of the bulbs just touching each other. Cover the bulbs …
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… ‘Bric-a-Brac’ is an herbaceous peony with unique single blooms. The petals, edged with fringe and streaked with cream, green, and rose, twist and turn around red stigmas and styles and the flowers are …
Type: Garden Guide Plant
… small root systems, they can be grown in pots as well. Then, bring the garden into the kitchen with recipes such Caesar salad spears, spinach salad with warm bacon-mushroom vinaigrette, miso and sesame dressing with carrots, and seared scallops with pea relish. Sample the varying taste and textures of …
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… is a little charmer of a rose, blooming in clusters of tiny (1 inch across) flowers, each with a center of cheery, bright yellow stamens. And bloom is nonstop, from mid-June until frost. Cassie is a rose that "plays well with others." At 3x3 feet, she won't crowd out her neighbors, but she will keep the garden show going when they're not in bloom. She has good disease resistance, so even with some shade and less than perfect air circulation, she'll do better at keeping healthy than …
Type: Garden Guide Plant
… conditions. It produces domes of slightly fragrant bright pink flowers in spring and is graced with bright red foliage with the onset of winter temperatures. Like other Rhododendron species, it needs an acidic soil … of most Chicago area soils so care must be taken to incorporate peat into the soils, top dress with granulated sulfur, and fertilize with liquid products identified as appropriate for …
Type: Garden Guide Plant
