… Bright red bracts are splattered and splotched with cream, interspersed with bracts entirely red or cream on this poinsettia cultivar. Keep your poinsettias in a frost …
Type: Garden Guide Plant
… leaves are edged in white spines surrounding a flowering spike that can reach 8' in height with orange flowers. Grow in full sun, exceptional well drained soils with low fertility and protect from hard frosts. …
Type: Garden Guide Plant
… Henderson's Fawn Lily is native to Oregon and northern California. It blooms with nodding, pink-lavender flowers in mid-spring and can reach a height of 1 foot. Its dark green leaves are mottled with brown or maroon. It can grow in full or partial sun in well-drained soil. Reduce water in …
Type: Garden Guide Plant
… mat-forming perennial grows to a height of only 8-12 inches in full sun to partial shade and with dry to moderate soil. From late spring to early fall it blooms repeatedly with blue, lavender, and purple flowers. A native of Croatia, this plant is useful in a border or …
Type: Garden Guide Plant
… This corm is marginally hardy in the Chicago area. It can reach a height of 24 inches with an 18-inch spread. It blooms in mid to late summer with arching stems of bright yellow flowers. It is not fussy about soil type or conditions as …
Type: Garden Guide Plant
… Squash This new winter squash produces uniquely ribbed, round fruit that ripen to dark tan with a frosted overlay. The fruit is similar in taste to a butternut squash, with superior flavor and long storage quality. It is best planted in the ground to allow for …
Type: Garden Guide Plant
… This cultivar of Potentilla fruticosa is a shrub, upright in habit with silvery gray leaves and creamy white flowers, 1½ inches in size. It grows to a height of 4 … size makes it adaptable for a mixed border or hedge. The silvery gray leaf color is adaptable with pink flowers and dark green hostas. …
Type: Garden Guide Plant
… Hybridization with wild South American species has produced an exotic shaped flower featuring wine red petals with green to cream midribs to produce a distinctive star shape. Force like other amaryllis to …
Type: Garden Guide Plant
… Geum ‘ Fireball’ stands 18 – 23 inches tall and blooms from mid-May to early July with gold to orange semi double flowers on branching stems. The edges of the petals are infused with scarlet orange. The flowers are 2 inches wide and face outward. Plant it in full sun to …
Type: Garden Guide Plant
… This shrub is a mid-western native, winter-blooming, deciduous shrub with a rounded habit. It typically grows to 10' tall with a somewhat larger spread. It is noted for its extremely early (January-March) bloom of …
Type: Garden Guide Plant
