… that urge! Instead, pair your tulips with plants that will hide those fading leaves as they die back naturally. Earlier tulips pair well with cool-season annuals like violets, pansies, …
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… woodland wildflowers are known as ephemeral plants, because they appear briefly in spring, die to the ground in summer, but return the following year. Their root systems are kept alive and …
Type: Walks
… their range north. Scientists are still monitoring how this will play out, but reduced winter die-off could intensify pressures on both cultivated and native plants. Even small advantages for …
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Take a late-summer stroll through the Dixon Prairie and see golden grasses sparkling like jewels with touches of color, and the lake rippling marvelously in the wind. The black-eyed Susan and coneflower plants you spot here may seem sparse, lanky, and scattered unlike the neat clumps or broad sweeps that can be seen on Evening Island and, perhaps, in your garden. Over the last few decades, plants …
Type: Plant Info
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Spring has its daffodils and tulips. Summer has its roses, perennials, and annuals. Fall launches a season finale with red, orange, gold, and vermillion leaves. But winter offers its own spectacular scenes, according to Robin Carlson, the Garden’s photographer. “The display gardens here are irresistible in the summer, but go to the prairie in winter. You’ll find milkweed seedpods, grasses, and …
Type: Plant Info
Basil ( Ocimum basilicum ) is one of the most popular herbs grown today. It is not only a flavorful ingredient in Italian, Chinese, French, and Thai cuisine, but it is also a fragrant, ornamental plant for gardens and containers. Easy to grow and tasty to eat, basil plants will add color and an aniselike fragrance to all flower and herb gardens. Native to Africa and parts of Asia, basil is an …
Type: Plant Info
In a discussion of ivy, it is important to distinguish between English ivy, the trailing or vining plant form belonging to the genus Hedera , and Boston ivy ( Parthenocissus tricuspidata ), the vine often found growing on brick houses, as well as Wrigley Field. English ivy is a truly versatile plant. It is used as a ground cover, in topiary displays, in hanging baskets, or sprawling over a …
Type: Plant Info
Q. We are thinking about getting a live, not cut, holiday tree this year. What do you recommend? A. It’s not too early to think about the holidays if you are considering a living balled- and-burlapped or container holiday tree this season. Successful transition of the tree from indoors to the home landscape requires advance preparation. It’s best to dig the tree’s planting hole in November, …
Type: Plant Info
Susceptible Plants Saucer magnolia ( Magnolia x soulangiana ), star magnolia ( M. stellata ), cucumbertree magnolia ( M. acuminata ), lily magnolia ( M. liliiflora ) Description & Symptoms Magnolia scale is one of the largest of the soft-scale insects that attacks trees by sucking plant fluids and sap. It is most noticeable in late spring and summer when it appears as large, whitish lumps, up …
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