… lance-shaped leaves vertically striped yellow or white. The gray-green leaves can be 6 feet in height. In summer it bears clusters of yellowish green flowers in spreading panicles to 25 feet. …
Type: Garden Guide Plant
… Easily grown in average, medium, well-drained soils in part shade to full shade. Prefers evenly moist, acidic loams with good drainage. Dislikes wet soils, particularly in winter. Dislikes high heat and humidity and does best when soils are cool. …
Type: Garden Guide Plant
… ( Rubus 'Thornfree') offers completely thorn-free canes and black fruit that ripen late in the season. In addition to blackberries, the Rubus genus includes raspberries, loganberries, and boysenberries, which you can also see growing in the Cane Fruit beds. …
Type: Garden Guide Plant
… flowers cover this mounded, shade -oving perennial throughout the summer. Chartreuse fruit in the fall continue the display. Native to woodland edges in Japan, this perennial tolerates moderate to full shade in well-drained soils. …
Type: Garden Guide Plant
… plant has triangular leaves with dark purple centers and purple veins. It forms a clump of 1’ in height and width. It blooms in midspring with small, fragrant, lavender flowers. It prefers moist well-drained soil in part to full shade. …
Type: Garden Guide Plant
… on poles at various locations around the Garden. Anyone walking the Garden perimeter in spring and summer is sure to notice the mini apartment complexes filled with purple birds flying in and out of their homes and calling “pew-pew.” These purple martins, fascinating to watch, … apartments carefully tended by Garden staff, including Jim Steffen. Purple martins once nested in natural tree hollows and other crevices near wooded ponds and marshes. Today, due to the …
Type: Birding
… In much of modern life, time is abstract. We measure it through calendars, meetings, project deadlines, and fiscal years. But in a garden, time is embodied. We see it in dormancy and bud swell, in growth and senescence, in leaf drop and return. The passing of the …
Type: Blog
… Is your garden fragrant enough? Gardeners often focus on color and design in their beds, borders, and yards and forget to factor in fragrance. Yet scent is keenly important to humans, as it is capable of triggering powerful reactions in the human brain. Information about scent not only travels to the brain for identification, but …
Type: Plant Info
… Narcissus bloom. Come enjoy the spirit of spring, and be inspired to try some new varieties in your own garden. The Beauty of Spring The Narcissus genus includes 13 divisions of … multiplying blooms explode on hillsides, meadows, and woodland walks, or form elegant swaths in formal gardens. The thousands of cultivars range from the great giants, growing to 20 inches … frilled cups, flat cups, split coronas, and flared-back forms. Daffodil bulbs are planted in fall but bloom in spring, as early as March or as late as May, depending on the cultivar. They …
Type: Plant Info
… Description: Look for this woodland-nesting flycatcher in the McDonald Woods or in the Barbara Brown Nature Reserve. In summer, seek the shelter of the trees' shade in McDonald Woods at the Garden. Have a seat on …
Type: Birding
