… Wylie Crawford was the first city carillonneur for the Millennium Carillon in Naperville, Illinois, and is currently the senior university carillonneur at the University of … became the president of the Sarasota Carillon Foundation, Inc. With an undergraduate degree in physics and master’s degree in teaching from the University of Chicago, Crawford is pleased to have initiated the first …
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… The Hedge Maple is native to most of Europe (in Scotland, it is the only native maple) and has been naturalized in North America and New Zealand. It is a slow grower and has deeply fissured, cork-like bark. … Its common name is Yellow Hedge Maple because the young foliage emerges golden yellow in spring maturing to yellow-green or green by summer. It may be grown as a hedge. It was …
Type: Garden Guide Plant
… Beautiful five-to-nine-lobed leaves emerge early. In 8 years, the plant grows 5 feet in height with a 4 foot spread. Use the Japanese maple as a specimen plant. May and June bring small reddish-purple flowers. The samaras, or winged fruits, mature in fall and turn a rich red. Fall color is outstanding, ranging from yellow to red to purple. …
Type: Garden Guide Plant
… Marbled ginger is a native of the Solomon Islands in the southwestern Pacific where it thrives in the warm humid climate, light sandy soils and partial light conditions under palms. This … ginger can reach a height of about five feet and will form clumps up to five or six feet wide in warmer locations. however it is not hardy in Chicago. The plant can potted and located in a …
Type: Garden Guide Plant
… This perennial grows to a height of 3-5 feet in full sun and moist soil conditions. It has tiny fragrant flowers in various shades of pink and white and attracts butterflies in July and August. 'Soulmate' is a selection with rosy pink flowers centered with a white …
Type: Garden Guide Plant
… terniflora ) features masses of small, cross-shaped, pure white, lightly fragrant flowers in late summer when grown in full sun or partial shade. The flowers are followed by billowing masses of silvery, silk-like seeds in late fall. This perennial is excellent for use as an informal vine or trained formally on …
Type: Garden Guide Plant
… Spikes of intense red-violet flowers are produced in profusion throughout the summer on Miss Ruby butterfly bush ( Buddleja davidii 'Miss Ruby'), a … a more compact habit than other butterfly bushes. (Its top is frequently killed to the ground in Chicago-area gardens.) This selection came from the J.C. Raulston Arboretum in North Carolina. It was the first-place winner in the Buddleja trials of the Royal …
Type: Garden Guide Plant
… altissimum ) offers large drifts of milky-white flowers for about six weeks beginning in late summer. Found growing throughout much of Illinois, tall boneset, which is in the same genus as Joe Pye weed, grows 4 to 5 feet tall. Each plant has a long single stem topped by branching flower heads. It is very similar to late boneset, but differs in the leaf bases, which taper to a narrow base. The flowers attract long-tongued bees, …
Type: Garden Guide Plant
… to purple and frosted between the veins with a silver cast. The foliage is prone to bleaching in full sun and would be most attractive in full to part shade. The white foamy flower panicles appear in late spring to early summer and add several additional inches of height. Both flowers and …
Type: Garden Guide Plant
… Heuchera richardsonii var. grayana or Prairie Alumroot, is native to the Midwest; found in Illinois, Missouri and the adjacent states. It is a variety of the species that was described and named in 1933 in honor of Dr. Asa Gray, who first discovered the variant. It differs in a few small measurable …
Type: Garden Guide Plant
