… EASY ELEGANCE® My Girl can be a reliable, season-long shot of bright pink in a mixed border, or a a carpet of color in larger spaces. The ruffly roses are quite double (petal count 28 - 30) and borne in clusters of 5 to 30 buds. In addition, as part of the EASY ELEGANCE® series, she's bred to be …
Type: Garden Guide Plant
… reaching a final height and width of about 5 feet. White Lights is completely smothered in pinkish-white fragrant blossoms in mid-spring. Like most azaleas, it prefers a partly shaded site, with protection from afternoon … well-drained, but consistently moist soil and will demonstrate chlorosis (leaf yellowing) in alkaline soils. Prune immediately after flowering and mulch the root zone in the fall for …
Type: Garden Guide Plant
… Bright-red double flowers up to 4 inches in diameter are features of Rosa ‘Hi, Neighbor’, a hardy, disease-resistant grandiflora rose created by the Buck Rose breeding program in Iowa. Glossy green foliage covers this shrub that can reach 4 feet by 4 feet in size. It is very hardy, with survival documented at minus 30 degrees Fahrenheit. This rose …
Type: Garden Guide Plant
… or mostly bright red. This tree is descended from a Bartlett pear tree that was found in Australia in the 1950s to have red fruit. Bartlett Red Sensation can reach heights of up to 25 feet in height and widths of 10 to 25 feet. In the spring it bears white blossoms, and in the late …
Type: Garden Guide Plant
… for its striking green and white variegated leaves, it also puts forth flowering stalks in the spring and summer. Buds, protected with showy orange calyxes, open to display white blooms. This stromanthe, just introduced to the gardening world in 2013, is named after Charlie McDaniel, a Florida teacher and avid horticulturalist who had it in his own collection. To this day, we don't know whether he collected it in Brazil or it turned …
Type: Garden Guide Plant
… Milka New England aster Symphyotrichum 'Milka') is hardy in the Chicago area and is grown for the lavender-purple flowers that cover the plant during autumn. It is insect- and disease-resistant when grown in full sun with open space between plants. First used in flower beds at the Chicago Botanic Garden in 2003, this was one of a wave of new aster hybrids …
Type: Garden Guide Plant
… is a deciduous conifer native to the southeastern USA where it can reach up to 100 feet in height. Adapted to high water tables, the branches are upright with pendulous lateral branches and leaves. Green leaflets in spring change to a russet-gold color in fall. It prefers acidic soils but with care can be grown in the alkaline heavy clays of the …
Type: Garden Guide Plant
… Description: This migrant woodpecker and breeder feeds on ants and can be found in any tree-covered area or on the lawn. Unlike many woodland birds, the northern flicker … Its loud, laughing, rapid “kick-kick-kick-kick-kick” song echoes through the woods, mostly in spring and early summer. Identify the northern flicker by its barred back, black spots on a … the female sometimes has a gray one. When the flicker flies, you can see a golden yellow color in its under wings, indicating that the bird belongs to the yellow-shafted race. Flickers with …
Type: Birding
… The beautiful clematis is like a flowering star in the summer border. While other perennials offer their charms in attractive mounds or vertical statements, the clematis climbs above the rest, twisting and twirling before opening its blossoms in shapes ranging from nodding bells to frilly double stars. A few types of clematis have tubular …
Type: Plant Info
… Description & Symptoms The annual white grub is the most common grub that causes lawn damage in Illinois. The large C-shaped, creamy white grub with three pairs of legs and a dark head is … beetles are attracted to vigorously growing turf with damp soil, where they lay their eggs in July. The grubs hatch and feed on decaying organic matter and sod roots until October. When temperatures begin to drop, they tunnel downward in the soil to overwinter. In spring, the grubs move up in the soil and resume feeding. They …
Type: Plant Info
