… Deep yellow flowers growing in small, flat clusters are produced throughout the warmer months on this dark green, mounding, … does not produce many viable seeds, instead focusing on greater flowering. Plant this lantana in full sun and in average soil. Also called yellow sage, lantana is in the verbena family. While the flowers …
Type: Garden Guide Plant
… Jim Dandy is a compact cultivar of our native deciduous winterberry hollies. In the wild they are found in swampy sites and stream margins in the eastern United States. Jim Dandy is a slow grower to about 6 feet high and 8 feet wide. It …
Type: Garden Guide Plant
… this bush looks dramatic you can make elderberry wine from the berries when they are ripe in late summer Gerda black elderberry is a showy shrub with dark purplish-black leaves and clusters of pale pink flowers that appear in early summer. The flowers are followed by edible black berries which can be used in cooking or wine-making. This elderberry can grow to about ten feet in height and about eight …
Type: Garden Guide Plant
… Glory-of-the-snow is one of the earlier flowering spring bulbs. In April, six-petalled flowers appear on stalks 6-10" high, in clusters of 4 to 8. Leaves are narrow, strap-like and arching outwards. In the center of each flower is a small white cone encasing short white stamens tipped in yellow. …
Type: Garden Guide Plant
… Glory-of-the-snow is one of the earlier flowering spring bulbs. In April, six-petalled flowers appear on stalks 6-10" high, in clusters of 4 to 8. Leaves are narrow, strap-like and arching outwards. In the center of each flower is a small white cone encasing short white stamens tipped in yellow. …
Type: Garden Guide Plant
… 'Belle Isis' goes back to 1845. The Empress Josephine had it in her famous rose gardens at Malmaison. The very light pure pink flowers are fully double and … described at myhrr. At 3 inches across, the flowers aren't large, but this rose blooms in clusters, so in full bloom it makes a strong visual impact. 'Belle Isis' is an heirloom rose, a Gallica, and …
Type: Garden Guide Plant
… These traits, combined with its purple ray florets, produce an outstanding fall display in Chicago-area gardens. This cultivar was selected from a seedling of the original 'Milka' cultivar in the Netherlands and registered in 1999. It was in the 1990s that it was discovered that our native wild asters could be tamed, …
Type: Garden Guide Plant
… of buttercup yellow and the twigs are reddish. Numerous pink, bell-shaped flowers appear in spring and continue sporadically during the summer. As the petals fall, the tiny coral-pink calyxes continue to provide color. The foliage becomes burgundy in late fall and persists well into winter—it is evergreen in warmer climates. In the Chicago area, it should be planted in a sheltered situation. …
Type: Garden Guide Plant
… Beautiful five-to-nine- lobed leaves emerge early. The plant grows 18 feet in height with a similar spread. Use the Japanese maple as a specimen plant. May and June bring small reddish-purple flowers. The samaras, or winged fruits, mature in fall and turn a rich red. The foliage emerges as purple and turns red in the fall. This lovely small tree, native to the Far East, can be grown only in very protected …
Type: Garden Guide Plant
… Beautiful lobed leaves emerge early. The plant grows 4 to 6 feet in height with a narrower spread. Use the Japanese maple as a specimen plant. May and June bring small reddish-purple flowers. The samaras, or winged fruits, mature in fall and turn a rich red. The finely dissected folaige is light green turning yellow to orange in the fall. This lovely small tree, native to the Far East, can be grown only in very protected …
Type: Garden Guide Plant
