… Dense St. Johnswort is a Danish cultivar whose showy golden blooms flower from July through September—much longer … perennial forms a tightly branched, mounded shrub with dark green, willow-like leaves and grows to 30 inches by 30 inches. It requires moderately fertile, evenly moist soil, and once established, it is relatively drought tolerant. This is not the species valued for its …
Type: Garden Guide Plant
… trees from insect attack? A. Spraying trees or shrubs with a horticultural, or dormant, oil is recommended as a way to help control repeated attacks of scale, mites, and aphids. Some of the common pests that can be controlled with the oil include euonymus scale, lecanium scale, cottony maple scale and obscure scale, honeylocust mite, European red mite, and spruce spider mite. The oil is …
Type: Plant Info
… Stipa , also known as Mexican feather grass, is native to hot dessert areas in the American Southwest and Mexico as well as South America. It has very slender, almost wispy leaves, and sends up feathery panicles that mature from a light, delicate green to blond. This is a grass …
Type: Garden Guide Plant
… The autumn garden is full of late-season color: bold dahlias and asters, pastel Japanese anemones, dusky chrysanthemums, and sunny goldenrods. But there is another group of plants flowering at this time, although the …
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… Introduced in 2013 as part of the LITTLE CUTIE™ Series, Heuchera 'Frost' is a miniature repeat blooming introduction from Terra Nova Nurseries. Frost Coral Bells has more rounded and smaller leaves than is typical. The leaves are silver and dark green with burgundy veins, the flowers are a delicate pink. The silver covered leaves …
Type: Garden Guide Plant
… Introduced in 2013 as part of the LITTLE CUTIE™ Series, Heuchera 'Sugar Berry' is a miniature repeat blooming introduction from Terra Nova Nurseries. Sugar Berry Coral Bells has more rounded and smaller leaves than is typical. The leaves are a frosted purple and pink with darker veins. The flowers are 10 inch spikes and a delicate pink. This plant has a …
Type: Garden Guide Plant
… 'Dancing Wind' is a type of big bluestem grass which is a bluish-green grass that was the dominant plant of the … called 'Dancing Wind' because of its bright red fall color which is retained throughout winter and the graceful dance of the grass in the wind. 'Dancing Wind' grows to about 6 feet high and 3 feet wide and prefers sunny, well drained spots. It bears seed heads in fall which provide …
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… Native ginger is found in the moist shady woods of eastern north America from Manitoba to North Carolina. … are virtually hidden by glossy heart-shaped leaves. Native ginger grows to about a foot tall and 18 inches wide and spreads slowly by rhizome. It requires at least part shade, will tolerate full shade, and …
Type: Garden Guide Plant
… Because of its foliage, this petite plant is often mistaken for a summer-blooming bleeding heart. Its gray-green foliage is deeply dissected and ferny in appearance. Unlike the flowers of bleeding heart, the gently nodding blossoms of corydalis are pale yellow and white. Their bloom peaks in spring but continues sporadically until fall. The plant has a …
Type: Garden Guide Plant
… Late boneset, also known as late-flowering thoroughwort, is an upright perennial with opposite leaves topped with sprays of small white flowers in August and September. It reaches a height of four to five feet, branching only near the top as the flattened clusters of flowers develop. The stems and cylindrical calyxes are covered with fine down. It is very similar to tall boneset, blooming …
Type: Garden Guide Plant
