… This clump-forming perennial grows to a height of 2 feet with partial shade to full shade and moderate moisture conditions. It has yellow blooms with white to pink inner sepals from May to June. It is a ground cover or an understory. …
Type: Garden Guide Plant
… A container garden can be as simple as a window box overflowing with annuals, as playful as a tub filled with tomatoes, or as romantic as an antique urn laced with roses and baby's breath. Choose a style to make your own! Versatile and Beautiful On decks …
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… 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
… surround the golden disk flowers on this sunflower relative that thrives in sunny positions with well drained soils. Form of the mature plant is mounded and it is covered with flowers throughout much of the summer. …
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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