… This tree is native to Japan's forests. It is an upright grower and can reach a height of 30 feet with a similar spread. Its foliage is green and palmate, very similar to Japanese maples. Fall color varies from shades of red to orange. It …
Type: Garden Guide Plant
… 'Shimpaku' is an irregularly vase-shaped juniper with soft, scale like, grey green needles. This slow growing dwarf juniper is hardy to USDA zone 3, prefers full sun, moderate moisture and has a mature size of 3 feet high and 5 feet wide. It makes an attractive specimen plant and is frequently cultivated as a bonsai. …
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… Phlox ‘Fashionably Early Flamingo’ grows 30 -36 inches tall and blooms from June to August with pale lavender flowers. It is attractive to butterflies and hummingbirds and is hardy in zones 4 - 8. The genus name is from the Greek word phlox meaning …
Type: Garden Guide Plant
… This cultivar is a conical evergreen conifer that can reach a height of 15’ and a width of 8’. It will tolerate … a wide range of soil types as long as periodic deep watering is provided. It prefers full sun and partial shade. The scale-like foliage is mildly fragrant and stays green in the winter. …
Type: Garden Guide Plant
… from early to late summer on stems that stand 18 to 24 inches tall with gray-green foliage. It is attractive to butterflies and hummingbirds while resistant to deer and rabbits. It likes full sun and tolerates drought well. This is a favorite as a cut flower and …
Type: Garden Guide Plant
… The evergreen wood fern is native to eastern north America and is found naturally as far north as Newfoundland, as far west as Minnesota and Missouri,and south to Georgia. The evergreen wood fern, also known as the intermediate wood …
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… Purple-leaf sand cherry is a large shrub grown for its intensely purple foliage. The leaves are small, ovate and toothed and maintain their color throughout the season. Pale pink flowers appear in small clusters in …
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… NORTHERN BURGUNDY® arrowwood viburnum will grow to a height of 8' to 10'. It is named arrowwood viburnum because Native Americans used the straight stems to make arrows. The … in clusters 4" in diameter in late May. The fruit is a drupe that is blue to black in color and is highly favored by birds. The arrowwood viburnum is one of the hardiest and easiest to grow of all viburnums for the garden. This shrub is a Chicagoland Grows® …
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… The European beech is a stately addition to any large landscape and in time becomes an imposing shade tree. The simple foliage is dark green and somewhat shiny. The beech nuts it produces in the fall are attractive to wildlife. Autumn …
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… Switch grass was an important part of the tall grass prairie providing an important food source and winter shelter for a range of insects, small mammals and birds, even bison. Apache Rose switch grass is an upright grass of about four feet in height and about two-three feet in width. Spring …
Type: Garden Guide Plant
