… and deep green, glossy, disease-resistant foliage. Situate this plant in a sunny location with good air movement, and fertilize it periodically throughout the growing season with a formula created specifically for roses. …
Type: Garden Guide Plant
… This shrub is semi-evergreen with its leaves turning mahogany red in fall. Lavender flowers appear in early April. It can reach a height of 6-8' with a spread of 4-5'. Like all rhododendrons, it prefers well-drained, fertile, acidic soil in …
Type: Garden Guide Plant
… This perennial bulb blooms in early spring with white blooms with a yellow eye. Multiple (3 to 6) flowers appear on 6” stems. It should be planted in full sun …
Type: Garden Guide Plant
… This floriferous orchid produces multiple stems with nine or more flowers each. The flowers have five burgundy petals in a half-circle with a white lip edged in red. It is a terrestrial orchid, which means it should be planted in …
Type: Garden Guide Plant
… This evergreen perennial grows to a height of 18 inches with partial to full shade and moderate moisture conditions. It blooms from January to April with insignificant flowers, but it does attract butterflies. It is a specimen ground cover and is …
Type: Garden Guide Plant
… Partridge pea is an upright native annual with pinnately compound leaves and large showy yellow flowers marked with red. It reaches 1 to 3 feet tall and thrives in full sun. Seedpods are eaten by birds and …
Type: Garden Guide Plant
… you can do this summer to extend the enchantment. 1. Annual cicadas. The annual species are with us all summer. Be an insect investigator. Find an annual cicada and notice how the two … 2. Did you know that all other insects go through life cycle stages like the cicada, with a dramatic final shedding to become adult flying insects? Dragonfly nymphs live underwater … bugs 3. Do you say “fireflies” or “lightning bugs.” Both are correct and you can play a game with them no matter what you call them. Fireflies flash a light for the same reason cicadas …
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… to promote new works for carillon. Brink began his carillon studies at Yale University with Ellen Dickinson in 2007; graduated with greatest distinction from the Royal Carillon School in Mechelen, Belgium in 2012; and studied further with Geert D’hollander at Bok Tower Gardens in 2015. He received first prize at the International …
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… A brilliant colorful tropical sunrise does echo in its dark red veined and centered leaves with contrasting gold and chartreuse edging. A definite tropical vibe. The color development varies with time and sun exposure. Green to start, with red veins, more red tones with more sun and towards the end of the summer, but the …
Type: Garden Guide Plant
… Nymphaea 'Barbara Dobbins': A hardy waterlily with 6-inch peachy-pink flowers and leaves that emerge maroon, changing to grassy green mottled with a few spots. Flowers earlier in the season have more of a yellow tinge, becoming peachier as summer progresses. Waterlilies are rhizomatous aquatic plants with about 50 species occurring in the wild, mostly found in the tropics of the Northern …
Type: Garden Guide Plant
