… This imposing plant grows up to 8 feet tall and 4 feet wide and is best for a large garden. Use it as a specimen plant or in a naturalistic garden. Resembling cotton candy, its tiny pink flowers are arranged in a 6- to 9-inch panicle bloom in midsummer. Queen-of-the-prairie is a showstopper in the …
Type: Garden Guide Plant
… Haage mammillaria ( Mammillaria haageana ) originated in Mexico. The first species was described by Carl Linnaeus in 1753. The genus Mammillaria is currently one of the largest in the cactus family, with 171 known species and varieties. This …
Type: Garden Guide Plant
… A plant is one of my favorite gifts, both to give and receive. I am, however, not inclined to throw out … techniques applied through winter and spring will give you a round of fresh flowers next year. In the interest of full disclosure, I do not attempt to keep a poinsettia alive year-round. It is too frightening to see it virtually naked in spring. Let's examine a few other holiday plants and review the simple steps to keep them …
Type: Plant Info
… has untoothed, opposite, ovate leaves with a pleasant, spicy aroma. The flowers, blooming in May and June, have numerous overlapping strap-like petals and a fruity scent. ROY’S DARK RED is a hardier selection made by Roy Klehm of Song Sparrow Farm in Wisconsin. Flowers are a rich burgundy, with clear yellow fall color. Shrubs can get quite …
Type: Garden Guide Plant
… Spotted beebalm is a plant native to eastern North America, where it is found on the sandy edges of rivers, … leaves with purple spots resting on a bract of pinkish leaves. It grows to about 2 feet in height and 1 foot in width. The flowers appear from July through September, and deadheading can prolong this …
Type: Garden Guide Plant
… Jade vine ( Strongylodon macrobotrys ) is a rare find in U.S. botanical gardens. Aside from the Chicago Botanic Garden, only the Fairchild Botanical Gardens, south of Miami, Florida, and the Waimea Botanic Gardens in Hawaii have this interesting plant. The unusual color of the jade vine's blooms is the result …
Type: Garden Guide Plant
… Red flower pea is an oval upright shrub that grows 20 feet tall and 18 feet wide. It is easy to grow, very cold hardy, and adaptable to soil, drought, and wind. Despite that fact, it is not often seen in cultivation. It prefers full sun where it produces purplish red flowers from March to June; …
Type: Garden Guide Plant
… Desert rose or impala lily, is neither a rose or a lily but a small succulent perennial in the dogbane family found growing in Africa, south of the Sahara, and in the Arabian Peninsula. It has a shrubby habit, with many …
Type: Garden Guide Plant
… has lovely velvety red blooms. The triangular to star shaped flowers are large, measuring 6” in diameter. It blooms in mid to late season. It is attractive to butterflies but not attractive to rabbits. Although each flower lasts only one …
Type: Garden Guide Plant
… and dark purple leaves. It creates an impressive mound 16 inches tall and 20 inches wide. In late summer spikes of creamy flowers increase the height to 30 inches and provide an interesting contrast to the almost black foliage. The leaf color is purple brown in the spring and in full sun conditions will become almost black. Very striking and unusual, …
Type: Garden Guide Plant
