… Silver Gumdrop Alumroot is lovely little plant with a sophisticated color combination. A small silvery colored Heuchera villosa hybrid with improved tolerance for heat and humidity. The silvery leaves are semi-glossy and mature with a slight rose tone. The flowers appear mid-summer on 24 inch pink scapes and are a …
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… to their immense flowers that appear mid to late summer. Compact 3-4 foot plants are covered with saucer shaped pink and white 8-inch flowers with red stripes and a dark red eye. The leaves are maple-shaped and dark red-black, making this … quite tropical. They prefers moist, and even wet, soils but can manage in average garden soils with regular deep watering in hot dry conditions. …
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… 'Pineapple Upsidedown Cake' is a large (15 inches tall, 50 inches wide) hosta with narrow leaves that emerge light green and change to yellow centers with dark green rippled margins. Hostas are shade tolerant, easy to grow, and long-lived. … take 3-8 years for hostas to reach their full size. They all prefer moist, loamy soil enriched with organic matter. Some leaf damage by slugs is to be expected. Deer find hosta delicious. …
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… Caribbean copper plant is a tropical American plant with foliage that provides a burst of rich burgundy red color to a garden. Outdoors in warmer climates it is a large shrub or small tree reaching 12 feet high, with a nice rounded habit. The broad three-inch leaves have long petioles and are arranged in … be irritating to the skin. During summer it produces clusters of tiny flowers that are green with a fringe of white. It is sometimes sold as "hierba mala", but that just means "weed" in …
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… Crown-of-thorns is a slow-growing tropical shrub with a rambling growth habit. Plants can grow to 3 feet by 3 feet on this Madagascar native that may be extinct in the wild. Its 5- to 6-sided fleshy, thorny stems are adorned with short, oblong leaves. The inconspicuous flowers, called “cyathia” are surrounded by colorful bracts. This variety has small pale yellow bracts with yellow cyathea and red anthers. At the Chicago Botanic Garden, crown-of-thorns bloom all 12 …
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… Nymphaea 'Denver': This hardy waterlily has 3-4” flowers that are very pale yellow to white with a big cluster of yellow stamens. Waterlilies are rhizomatous aquatic plants with about 50 species occurring in the wild, mostly found in the tropics of the Northern … They are characterized by round notched leaves that lie flat on the water, and flowers with numerous petals produced at the end of a long lax stem and floating just above the water …
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… Nymphaea 'Joanne Pring' is a hardy pygmy waterlily with rich rosy-pink blooms only 2 inches across. The emerging leaves are dark red, and mature leaves remain maroon along the edges. Waterlilies are rhizomatous aquatic plants with about 50 species occurring in the wild, mostly found in the tropics of the Northern … They are characterized by round notched leaves that lie flat on the water and flowers with numerous petals produced at the end of a long lax stem floating just above the water …
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… Nymphaea 'Pink Grapefruit' is a hardy waterlily with pale carnation-pink flowers and yellow stamens in the center, held several inches above the water. Waterlilies are rhizomatous aquatic plants with about 50 species occurring in the wild, mostly found in the tropics of the Northern … They are characterized by round notched leaves that lie flat on the water and flowers with numerous petals produced at the end of a long lax stem floating just above the water …
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… Nymphaea 'Sioux': The 6-inch flowers of this changeable waterlily open with yellow flowers that become apricot and then orange. Waterlilies are rhizomatous aquatic plants with about 50 species occurring in the wild, mostly found in the tropics of the Northern … They are characterized by round notched leaves that lie flat on the water, and flowers with numerous petals produced at the end of a long lax stem and floating just above the water …
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… far between, and 'Autumn Sunset' is one of the best. Buds and outer petals are strongly tinged with on coral on opening, softening to a golden yellow over time. As it blooms in clusters, this means you often get both colors together, along with a strong whiff of its rich, fruity fragrance. And good news for midwestern … Sunset' is hardy to zone 5, and highly disease resistant, especially to black spot. With canes up to 12' long, you can train it up a wall or over an arbor. Use it as a free-standing …
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