… Vibrant red flowers on tall spikes contrast with the dark purple green foliage on this cultivar of the native red-flowered lobelia from late summer to the middle of fall. A great selection for sunny locations with moist to wet soils—edges of ponds or stream banks. It attracts hummingbirds and other late …
Type: Garden Guide Plant
… dark blue flowers on black stems in contrast to the deep green leaves throughout the summer with a riotous season's flourish just before the first hard frosts of fall. It thrives in sunny locations with well drained soils of average fertility. Butterflies, moths, and hummingbirds find the …
Type: Garden Guide Plant
… Album White Catawba Rhododendron is considered an ironclad vigorous grower with medium-sized leaves. In late season, pale lilac buds open to conical trusses of bell-shaped white flowers 2½ inches high with green clashes in the throat. This rhododendron tolerates sun and wind, and is beautiful in a …
Type: Garden Guide Plant
… The Aglo rhododendron is an open multi-stemmed, rounded evergreen shrub. It blooms with lightly scented shell pink trumpet-shaped flowers with a red blotch in early spring. The narrow leaves turn purple in the fall, giving the plant …
Type: Garden Guide Plant
… The Iseli Fastigiate Spruce has a compact, narrow pyramidal form with upward trending branches and blue needles. For use in full sun with moderate moisture, this slow growing compact form ultimately reaches 40' high and 10' wide. …
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… This is a smaller-leaved version of Boston ivy with small, deeply lobed leaflets which turn a red and maroon color in the fall. The vine grows to a height of 70 feet with full sun to partial shade and moderate moisture conditions. It has insignificant white …
Type: Garden Guide Plant
… range in Canada. When migrating south in fall, the young of the year practice their songs with hoarse, wavering, unsure voices. Occasionally, an adult will answer with a more Pavarotti-like voice. You can hear the migratory white-throated sparrows sing from … sparrow. The adult male has a grayish body; a brown, striped back; and a chalky white throat with a bold, lemon-yellow patch above its eye. Its crown has alternating white and black lines, …
Type: Birding
… Carolina allspice, or sweetshrub, 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. The flowers are usually an unusual shade of dark red with a hint of maroon and sit atop short branchlets. ‘Edith Wilder’, with more fragrant flowers and good yellow fall color, came from the Scott Arboretum in …
Type: Garden Guide Plant
… European gardeners. The cultivar Waldtraut produces masses of bronze-orange flowers splashed with yellow. The nectar is prized by bees and butterflies. Flowering begins in very late summer … watery eyes, runny noses, headaches and sore throats. Heleniums have evolved in conjunction with pollinating insects that prefer plants with lots of nectar. As a result, the pollen grains are fairly large and are adapted to sticking …
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… ‘Circus Circus’ is an herbaceous peony with unusual semi-double blooms consisting of twisted petals, streaked with raspberry and surrounding yellow pistils. Flowers are fragrant. Peony bloom times are … throughout the summer, then dies to the ground in the fall. Plant in sun to part shade with the eyes no more than 2 inches below the soil surface. It is deer resistant. Peonies are …
Type: Garden Guide Plant
