… features white flowers followed by bright red fruit. This variety is one of the earliest to flower. Crabapples are small flowering trees that provide a showy display in the spring landscape for 1 to 2 weeks. In addition to the eye-catching buds and flowers, their foliage, habit, and fruit …
Type: Garden Guide Plant
… flowers with a pea green throat. With slightly ruffled petals, it blooms in early to mid-summer. In milder climates the foliage is green all year long. Although each flower lasts … and several stalks on each plant. The buds open in series, so a single plant will continue to bloom for 2 weeks or more. It is easy to grow and does well in full sun to part shade. Green Flutter is …
Type: Garden Guide Plant
… edges. The blooms measure 4 inches and appear very early in the season. They are attractive to hummingbirds. Although each flower lasts only one day, there are multiple buds on each stalk … and several stalks on each plant. The buds open in series, so a single plant will continue to bloom for 2 weeks or more. It is easy to grow and does well in full sun to part shade. The American …
Type: Garden Guide Plant
… Castor aralia, native to Japan and eastern Asia, is an upright oval tree for the plant connoisseur with a taste for the unusual. The stout branches are armed with a scattering of stout thorns. The leaves are huge, up to one foot wide, and are palmately lobed into seven segments, like a giant Japanese maple. …
Type: Garden Guide Plant
… The red buds of Pink Sargent crabapple open to pink flowers, followed by red fruit. Crabapples are small flowering trees that provide a showy display in the spring landscape for 1 to 2 weeks. In addition to the eye-catching buds and flowers, their foliage, habit, and fruit …
Type: Garden Guide Plant
… plants benefit from deadheading; however, newly planted young plants are less likely to require frequent deadheading in their first year of growth. There are several reasons for deadheading. Most gardeners do it because it aesthetically looks better when dead plant … ( Dianthus chinensis ). Deadheading can prevent self-seeding of plants that you don’t want to spread, such as clustered bellflower ( Campanula glomerata ). Don’t deadhead plants that you …
Type: Plant Info
… from very late summer and into fall. Stout stems support the flowering display without need for staking and the plant is insect and disease resistant. It is important to plant in full sun, average soils and apply only low levels of fertilizer throughout the growing season. Pollinating insects are drawn to the flowers and songbirds follow up for the seeds. …
Type: Garden Guide Plant
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… Masses of small, double pink flowers cover this nonfragrant polyantha shrub rose from mid-June to frost, with an especially strong flush of flowers just before the season ends. This is a perennial favorite for bridal bouquets. Suitably named for its small stature, the mature size of The Fairy rose ( Rosa 'The Fairy') is 1 to 2 feet tall. The bright glossy green foliage is scaled with the flower size and is disease …
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… black giving the appearance of a streak of molten lava across the leaf. This coleus grows to about a foot high and wide and prefers partly shaded spots and moist well-drained soils. coleus are favorites for bedding plants, planters and window boxes for their wide range of colors and textures. Black Dragon would add depth to plantings with lighter colored foliage. …
Type: Garden Guide Plant
