… This native perennial produces blue flowers that last only one day from an inflorescence at the tip of the stems that contains dozens of flower buds, providing continuous color in the landscape from May to August. This spiderwort is one of the most adaptable native wildflowers to cultivated …
Type: Garden Guide Plant
… chartreuse leaves in mid- to late fall. Plant this lily in moist humus-y soils and protect it from rabbits in early spring. The foliage brightens up shady sites throughout the growing season, and the flowers are among the last of the season. Sap from this plant is used to deactivate the poisons found in poison dart frog mucus. …
Type: Garden Guide Plant
… tulip belonging to the Darwin Hybrid section. 'Daydream' was released to the trade in 1980 from the Netherlands. It is a sport of 'Yellow Dover'. Darwin Hybrids are the best adapted tulips … in the Chicago area if planted in full sun and well-drained soil that stays on the dry side from mid- to late summer. …
Type: Garden Guide Plant
… with full sun to partial shade and moist soil conditions. It has white, red, and yellow blooms from July to November where it is hardy outdoors—the season of bloom can vary in conservatories. The flowers are produced in an ornamental cone-like structure that arises from the soil on a stout stalk. …
Type: Garden Guide Plant
… birch is a cultivar of the gray birch propagated by tissue culture or vegetative propagation from an original tree selected for its resistance to bronze birch borer. It is considered distinct in the trade from Whitespire gray birch, a related cultivar that may be propagated from seed and may or may not be as resistant to the birch borer. Both cultivars are more tolerant …
Type: Garden Guide Plant
… Whitespire gray birch is a cultivar of the gray birch that may be propagated from seed and may or may not be resistant to the bronze birch borer. It is considered distinct in the trade from Whitespire Senior gray birch, a related cultivar propagated by tissue culture or vegetative propagation from an original tree selected for its resistance to bronze birch borer. Both cultivars are more …
Type: Garden Guide Plant
… height of 15 to 20 inches. It is one of the few plants that can move its leaves toward or away from the sun. Its white blossoms are distinguished by a straight flower spike. The heart-shaped flower is really a spathe (waxy, modified leaf), flaring out from the base of a fleshy spike (spadix), where the real, tiny,unisexual flowers grow. They … the spadix. Flamingo flower is an epiphytic plant, often growing on other plants and hanging from trees, but it is independent and not parasitic. Popular foliage plants, anthuriums are grown …
Type: Garden Guide Plant
… in silver are attractive throughout the year. Large pink moth orchid flowers are produced from mid winter through early spring in long sprays. This species adapts well to the lower light … windowsills or under grow lights. This native of the Phillipines was first described in 1860 from a plant brought into flower by the German Consul by the name of Schiller. The orchid family … (USDA Zones 9-11) and have epiphytic roots -- meaning they derive moisture and nutrients from the air and support from another plant; few orchids grow in soil. Orchids usually prefer a …
Type: Garden Guide Plant
… if this has been a problem in the past. Problems to look for include rubbings on tree trunks from young deer bucks and gnawed or stripped bark from lower trunk areas due to rabbits, mice, and voles. Creation of physical barriers such as … trunks works more effectively than repellents. In the event of heavy snows, remove snow loads from evergreen branches by gently sweeping snow off with a broom. Branches that have been …
Type: Plant Info
… deciduous tree with shiny green leaves, showy clusters of creamy white flowers that bloom from May to June, round white fruit, and red foliage in the fall. Native to the Midwest, it grows … along the banks of streams. It will colonize so it can be used as a hedge. The fruit ripens from August to October and provides food for at least 40 species of birds. Members of the genus … interest -- be it flowers, fruit, foliage, and/or bark -- and their range of forms from small trees to suckering shrubs. The dominant display, however, varies among the species. …
Type: Garden Guide Plant
