… America, this orchid grows to 1 foot in height. Its flowers are 5 inches across and bat-like, with the lip and column held apart from the petals and sepals. The coloring is white dotted with red and a yellow throat. Several flower spikes with up to six blooms per spike can be produced in one season. It requires warm indoor …
Type: Garden Guide Plant
… Resembling over-sized pansies, most vanda orchids can be recognized by the five rounded petals with a very small cup in the center. The lower petals of this cultivar are a rich violet-red. The three upper petals are pale pink heavily spotted with red. They usually bloom every few months, with long-lasting flowers that are more short-lived if cut. In the wild, there are 35 species of …
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… audience on a tour of Brazil by presenting a wide variety of Brazilian compositions combined with his own originals. In his performance, Luciano contrasts songs that have rich and complex harmonies and melodies with simple rhythms against songs that have simple harmonies and melodies with very complex … mistake; Luciano has placed his stamp on the Brazilian music scene in Chicago. lucianoantonio.com oldtownschool.org/hireus …
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… Beautiful five-to-nine-lobed leaves emerge early. The plant grows 15 feet in height with a 20 foot spread. Use the Japanese maple as a specimen plant. May and June bring small … have spreading shapes, this one is is upright and vase- shaped. Foliage emerges light green with reddish edges in spring. It matures to medium green in summer and turns gold with orange and red hues in fall. …
Type: Garden Guide Plant
… evergreen shrub native to the South Pacific islands grows to a height of 10 feet in full sun with moderate moisture conditions. The leaves are large, broad and toothed with a coarse texture and milky sap. In some varieties the leaves are crowded together and cupped … their colorful foliage, which for this cultivar is a blotchy blend of light and very dark red with olive new growth. The flowers of this species are upright fuzzy female spikes and pendant …
Type: Garden Guide Plant
… unbranched woody stalks 6 to 20 feet high and large 3-4 foot fronds of twice-compound leaves with toothed leaflets. The stalks and raches (leaf stems) are covered with clusters of slender, stiff spines, arranged in rows at the leaf bases. In July to August the plants are topped with large panicles of airy white flowers which may be followed by small black berries favored by …
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… of Africa. Its kinship to milkweeds can be seen in the softly fuzzy, opposite, oblong leaves with tapering bases and in the lavender to white flower clusters with a complex structure. Each floret has five stiff reflexed petals and a lavender-blue crown. Like milkweeds, it produces pod-like follicles filled with numerous flat seeds attached to silky hairs. The leaves and stems contain a toxic milky sap, …
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… or as some would say, blood red flowers! Hemerocallis Bella Lugosi has deep burgundy flowers with lime green throats that bleed into the greenish-gold centers. It stands 29-33 inches high and blooms in mid-summer with large 6 inch flowers with slightly ruffled edges. Although each flower only lasts one day, there are multiple buds on …
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… Candy Apple Alumroot matures to a neat 12 inch by 14 inch mound shape and has foliage colors with an apple red and green theme, with silver accents. Although primarily grown for its decorative foliage, a spike of delicate … and adding interest. Carnival Candy Apple Alumroot is one of a ten Carnival Alumroot varieties with diverse foliage colors, uniform size and good heat tolerance. The Carnival Series was …
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… Galaxy Alumroot is an amazing variegated red hybrid Heuchera with large leaves patented by Terra Nova Nurseries in 2014. It is a smaller plant, maturing to a … inches. The leaves are very large and are initially bright red, maturing to a darker warm red with pink spots. The spots become more noticeable on the older leaves. Works well as color … and attractive. I will grow in full sun or partial shade, there may be some leaf scorch with full afternoon sun. …
Type: Garden Guide Plant
