… Plant this spruce in full sun and with enough space around it to keep neighboring vegetation from shading out some of the branches and destroying the symmetry. The straight species is used … for essential oils, and as a source of medicinal salves and drinks. The genus name is derived from the Latin name for pitch, a sugar rich gum that oozes out at injury sites. …
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… Pink to lavender 2-inch daisies cover this large, nonhardy perennial from South Africa from spring through early summer. Plant this large (up to 5 feet high) beauty toward the back of …
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… rapid growth rate to around 6 feet in size in a Chicago summer. In Africa, concoctions made from the leaves are used to treat a variety of intestinal ailments in people and skin diseases in livestock. The ashes from the stem are used to treat gourds used to store milk. …
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… but with very showy red flowers. It doesn't resemble petunias, but borrows its common name from our native prairie petunia ( Ruellia humilis ), which does look like a lavender petunia. It … branch ends with a tuft of bracts that turn red, with funnel-shaped true flowers protruding from the branch tips. These plants are in the acanthus family and not related to true petunias. …
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… sport 1-inch white-and-purple marked flowers at the tip and along the top half of the stems from late September up to the first very hard frost. Like other toad lilies, it prefers soils … is more resistant to soil that sometimes get too dry. You may need to protect the plant from rabbits and deer until the root system is well established—they love toad lilies. …
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… full sun, and moist soils in winter and spring that are allowed to dry out in summer. Protect from deer, rabbits, chipmunks, squirrels, and voles whenever possible by interplanting with bulbs from the onion or amaryllis families. These include Allium , Galanthus , and Narcissus . …
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… who comforted Jesus on his path to Calvary. White Wands veronica has white flower spikes from early to mid-summer. It grows to about sixteen inches in height and one to two feet in width … Dead-heading will encourage reblooming, cut back completely after flowering. Veronica benefits from consistently moist soils during the growing period but cannot tolerate wet soils during …
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… curassavica 'Silky Gold') is a nonnative perennial plant that the Chicago Botanic Garden grows from seed and uses as a warm-season annual. It is a member of the milkweed family, which includes … native perennials in the Garden's permanent collection. Asclepias flowers form seedpods from which seeds with silky hairs are dispersed by wind. 'Silky Gold' is a host plant for monarch …
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… The Garden is open until 9 p.m. from June 1 through September 2. Click here for more information. …
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… time outdoors. Horticultural Therapy staff of the Chicago Botanic Garden and researchers from Northwestern University and the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign are interested in … Linking Biology and Culture William R. Leonard, Ph.D., Northwestern University The transition from a traditional to an urbanized lifestyle is commonly associated with marked increases in … time outdoors. Horticultural Therapy staff of the Chicago Botanic Garden and researchers from Northwestern University and the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign are interested in …
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