… name is thought to celebrate Ptolomy Philadelphus, a patron of the arts and sciences who ruled from 285 – 246 BC. The species, x cymosus, is of garden origin and reflects parentage from many species from around the world that have been collected and grown together in garden settings – allowing …
Type: Garden Guide Plant
… Djendoel Soejarto at University of Illinois at Chicago, we provide plant material left over from cleaning seeds for our seed bank, which is then screened for various medicinal compounds at UIC. In 2014, we provided dried plant material from 350 collections to be screened (Yates, Sollenberger, Vitt, and Havens-Young). …
Type: Research
… Massive plumes of burgundy or yellow/golden flowers produce edible grains for fall harvests from this Central American food crop. The attractive burgundy leaves can be harvested young and … Songbirds flock to the ripe seeds in fall. Plant in full sun and average soils after danger from late spring freezes have passed. …
Type: Garden Guide Plant
… Elongated purple flowers with pink bases appear above the dark greyish green leaflets from May into June followed by bright red seed pods in July. Tolerant of heavy soils with … diseases if grown on the dry side. A 2019 collection of the Plant Collections Collaborative from Republic of Georgia. …
Type: Garden Guide Plant
… Lavender daisies grace this moderately sized perennial from summer through to the first hard frosts of fall. Native (and collected by Garden staff) from mountain meadows in the Republic of Georgia this hardy perennial prefers full sun and …
Type: Garden Guide Plant
… of two-tone, light- and medium-blue flowers top blue glory bower ( Clerodendrum ugandense ) from October through March. Grow this nonhardy shrub from East and Central Africa in moisture-retentive, organic soils, and cut back hard right after …
Type: Garden Guide Plant
… 6 to 8 feet and blooms continuously in a mild climate. It is hardy in zones 10-11. It was bred from a hibiscus from southern China which is now believed to be extinct in the wild. …
Type: Garden Guide Plant
… From the colder higher elevations of southern Brazil comes this distinctive terrestrial bromeliad … flowers. Grow in full sun, exceptional well drained soils with low fertility and protect from hard frosts. …
Type: Garden Guide Plant
… a deep copper center on this well-branched, 18-inch by-16-inch hardy perennial. Descended from native parents, this cultivar is well-adapted to Chicago's climate and soil. It flowers best when planted in full sun and in well-drained soil. Protect the young plants from rabbits in early spring. …
Type: Garden Guide Plant
… on a shorter statured plant. The showy non-fertile ray flowers extend out horizontally from the central orange-colored fertile flowers. Plant this echinacea in full sun and well-drained soil, and protect the plant from rabbits until it becomes established in the landscape. …
Type: Garden Guide Plant
