… Light blue, lacecap-style flowers cover the dark, glossy green leaves from June to August on this cultivar of mountain hydrangea from Japan. With the shorter days and cooler temperatures of fall, the leaves turn a …
Type: Garden Guide Plant
… This mounded perennial produces a continuous display of violet-blue flowers with a white eye from late spring up to the first frost. It grows to a height of about 18 inches with a spread of … partial shade and moderate soil conditions. This sterile cultivar was vegetatively propagated from a chance seedling discovered in an English garden. …
Type: Garden Guide Plant
… Hibiscus 'Plum Fantasy' has huge magenta red flowers with deep red centers. It blooms from mid summer to mid fall with flowers measuring 8-9 inches across. The petals have a puckered and crinkled look, quite distinct from other hibiscus. At maturity the plant stands 4-5 feet tall. It is hardy in zone 4 -9 and is …
Type: Garden Guide Plant
… moist soil, where it will grow to 24 inches and produce brilliant red star-shaped flowers from July to August. It is highly resistant to powdery mildew. It is attractive to hummingbirds … phlox are the most magnificent, and there is a huge selection of colors and sizes to choose from. …
Type: Garden Guide Plant
… Activities in 2014 saw the completion of a multi-year project that combined information from long-term fieldwork with DNA analyses to document the group's diversity, evolutionary … of ectomycorrhizal fungi. A final draft of the first in a series of manuscripts resulting from this work was completed. A study initiated in 2013 with colleagues from Australia and New Zealand to investigate the role of climate in shaping diversity and …
Type: Research
… Yang-style tai chi is a beautiful, slow-moving meditation in motion. Move through a selection from the 24 forms, the traditional Yang-style long form, and some qi gong. Select this course … Burnstein Hall and Nichols Hall, and the outdoor, covered, McGinley Pavilion. Classes held from May through September will take place outdoors whenever possible. Dress for the weather. Classes held from October through April feature indoor classes only. Gordon Lock and Mitzi Labant, …
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… Yang-style tai chi is a beautiful, slow-moving meditation in motion. Move through a selection from the 24 forms, the traditional Yang-style long form, and some qi gong. Select this course … Burnstein Hall and Nichols Hall, and the outdoor, covered, McGinley Pavilion. Classes held from May through September will take place outdoors whenever possible. Dress for the weather. Classes held from October through April feature indoor classes only. Gordon Lock and Mitzi Labant, …
Type: Item Detail
… vase forming leaves are grayish-green with black spines along the edge. This bromeliad comes from the American tropics where it thrives in the top of tree canopies deriving nutrition from the leaf litter that blows/falls into the water holding cup. Researchers have found a mini-world of organisms within these vases from frogs on down the bacteria and mosses. The flowers are long and tubular favoring pollination …
Type: Garden Guide Plant
… almost invisible. What you see are the fuzzy hot pink spikes of flowers, and you'll see them from the beginning of summer into fall. Bees, butterflies, and hummingbirds will spot them too, and come flying. This sage comes from the edges of moist forests in the foothills of the Andes, so it's happiest in rich, loose … for the winter. In warmer southern climates, it can go in the ground, but it'll benefit from some shade. …
Type: Garden Guide Plant
… bluestar is one of the few amsonia species that is not native to North America -- hailing from Japan, China and Korea. It is relatively rare in cultivation. Members of the genus Amsonia … flowers borne in clusters at the stem tips in late spring or early summer. The foliage ranges from threadlike to willow-like and looks attractive throughout the growing season with the bonus of good to outstanding yellow to gold fall color. Species may vary in plant size from a ground cover sized 5 inches to an almost shrub sized 4 feet. Bluestars are considered …
Type: Garden Guide Plant
