… When this plant bears pale pink flowers in the summer months it is often when we are happy to be outside. Maybe that's why it's called Happy Face® Pink Paradise … rich moist soils, it is drought tolerant once established. Prune a third of the stems back in late winter to encourage new growth. …
Type: Garden Guide Plant
… SUNBURST® Thornless Honeylocust is an attractive shade tree that is often planted as a shade tree in grassy areas as the fine foliage allows enough sunlight to pass through for grass to grow … foliage that appears yellowish-green and matures to a darker green, turning yellow early in the fall. It can grow to over fifty feet tall, although thirty to thirty feet is more common, …
Type: Garden Guide Plant
… Nutgall tree, also known as Chinese sumac, is the tallest representative of the cashew family that will grow in the Midwest. It is a suckering shrub with an open habit that will reach 20 feet in height, with irregular spreading branches. The attractive leaves are compound, with a winged …
Type: Garden Guide Plant
… Odette's Moon is a cultivar of lady slipper orchid with uniquely colored flag, petals and cup featuring various … chocolate, pink shading to rosy pink colors, blushes, spots and veins. Lady slipper orchids, in general, prefer the kind of growing environment that African violets often favor - that is … high humidity and moderate to cool temperatures. At the Garden this cultivar is featured in the carnivorous bog. …
Type: Garden Guide Plant
… find it difficult, if not impossible, to grow. Vines can be used as green screens, filling in the diamond holes of a chain link fence, or they can be the flowering focal point on a backyard trellis, an elaborate arbor or a simple support stuck in the ground. Vines require very little lateral room at planting time since their growth is mostly up and outward. They can work their way into tight spots before breaking loose on a …
Type: Plant Info
… The Saratoga Ginkgo, introduced by the Saratoga Horticultural Foundation, Inc. in San Martin, California, is a male clone that will not produce the distinctive smelly fruit. It has unusually large and … as a specimen or street tree. It is one of the most pollution-tolerant trees and works well in the city. The Ginkgo is an ancient deciduous conifer and evidence has been found which shows …
Type: Garden Guide Plant
… Dense St. Johnswort is a Danish cultivar whose showy golden blooms flower from July through September—much longer … properties ( H. perforatum ). St. Johnswort is poisonous to livestock when ingested, and in high doses, it can cause many of the same symptoms in humans. St. Johnswort is one of the few plants tolerant of being planted near black walnut …
Type: Garden Guide Plant
… Annie Wang, Student Carillonneur: Annie Wang is a rising fourth-year chemistry major at the University of Chicago. She learned about the … M.D.-Ph.D. student at the University of Chicago Pritzker School of Medicine doing his Ph.D. in molecular engineering. Kevin is from New York and went to college at Yale University, where he majored in molecular biophysics and biochemistry and learned to play the carillon. He was a member of the …
Type: Event for Calendar
… This is a small (28 feet high and 15 feet wide) tree that is native to southeast Asia. It has green-white flowers that give way to winged samaras that ripen to a bright red in the fall. Foliage starts green and turns to yellow, orange and red in the fall. It prefers well-drained, rich soils in full to partial sun. …
Type: Garden Guide Plant
… Five-leaf Akebia ‘Leucantha’ is often called the chocolate vine for its cocoa-colored pods. This is a semi-evergreen climber … leaflets notched at the tips, dark green above and blue-green below. They are tinged purple in winter. Spicy smelling brownish-purple flowers are produced in pendant racemes in early spring followed by fruit. …
Type: Garden Guide Plant
