… flowers and dark green leaves on vining/sprawling stems. It is a rare and endangered species from Madagascar. …
Type: Garden Guide Plant
… a height of 3 feet with full sun and moderate moisture conditions. It has salmon pink blooms from July to October. …
Type: Garden Guide Plant
… This beautiful shrub needs full sun and moderate moisture conditions. From May through October it produces fragrant red blooms. It belongs in a border. …
Type: Garden Guide Plant
… This perennial needs full sun and moderate moisture conditions. It has blue and lavender blooms From May through August and belongs in a border. …
Type: Garden Guide Plant
… also has white wing bars and a slightly crossed bill, which enables it to extract seeds from cones. Wherever there are stands of spruces and other conifers, a flock of crossbills may be … and redpolls. This rare member of the finch family has a bill specialized for extracting seed from spruce cones. Their appearance at the Garden is associated with variations in spruce cone …
Type: Birding
… Q. I have evergreens planted near a street. How can I protect them from salt damage? A. While the best course is to plant only salt-resistant varieties near sources … addition, attention should be paid to the grade surrounding the shrubs to prevent salt spray from pooling. Please contact Plant Information at (847) 835-0972 or plantinfo@chicagobotanic.org …
Type: Plant Info
… Thai Dance Performances 1 – 1:45 p.m. McGinley Pavilion Watch a traditional Thai folk dance from the Department of Culture Promotion, Ministry of Culture, Thailand. The program will include … the Long Drum Dance—a joyful folk drum dance—and Fon Khonsawan, a traditional local folk dance from Savannakhet Province along the Mekong River. …
Type: Event for Calendar
… per flower stalk begin to appear in fall and carry through early winter. The flowers originate from the creeping stem instead of from the pseudobulb as most orchids do. Often referred to as a "blue orchid", the flowers are …
Type: Garden Guide Plant
… covered in dainty, glossy opposite leaves that are sharply pointed. 'Kaleidoscope' is colorful from April to October, with burgundy twigs and glossy leaves edged with yellow. This cultivar is … sprays of small, tubular, white to pale pink flowers on new growth. Blooms can continue from May until November. As the petals fall, the tiny coral-pink calyxes continue to provide …
Type: Garden Guide Plant
… by the 1930s it was being grown in North America and Europe (where it won an Award of Merit from the Royal Horticultural Society). These plants originated as cuttings taken from a pink-flowered plant found among a mass of white-flowered forms by the Regenstein Center. …
Type: Garden Guide Plant