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  • … FIREWORKS™ arrowwood viburnum is notable for its colunar habit and ruby red fall color, which make it particularly useful in the smaller … home landscape due to their range of sizes and cultural adaptability. Some viburnums are noted for their fragrant flowers; most bear small fruit that may add visual interest. Many viburnums …
    Type: Garden Guide Plant
  • … Popcorn Japanese snowball bush viburnum is named for its abundance of popcorn-like clusters of bright white sterile flowers that almost overwhelm … home landscape due to their range of sizes and cultural adaptability. Some viburnums are noted for their fragrant flowers; most bear small fruit that may add visual interest. Many viburnums …
    Type: Garden Guide Plant
  • … cranberrybush viburnum is a compact, rounded form at 6' high and wide. It is most notable for its deep red fall foliage. The white flowers in May and red fruits are only sparsely … home landscape due to their range of sizes and cultural adaptability. Some viburnums are noted for their fragrant flowers; most bear small fruit that may add visual interest. Many viburnums …
    Type: Garden Guide Plant
  • … and hummingbirds come flying. </p> <p>They love <em>Weigelas.</em>, and so do gardeners. For a plant that gives you so much to look at, they're very easy to care for. No particular disease or pest problems. No special soil requirements. Just give them good …
    Type: Garden Guide Plant
  • … Milka New England aster Symphyotrichum 'Milka') is hardy in the Chicago area and is grown for the lavender-purple flowers that cover the plant during autumn. It is insect- and … at the Chicago Botanic Garden in 2003, this was one of a wave of new aster hybrids promoted for growing as seasonal potted plants and cut flowers to compete with chrysanthemums. It has also …
    Type: Garden Guide Plant
  • … cedars native to the forests of the Pacific north-west of the US. This cultivar has been bred for its neat growth form reaching a height of about 25 feet and a width of 8 feet. This tree … be pruned in late fall. Fertilize in early spring with a specialist slow-release fertilizer for conifers. …
    Type: Garden Guide Plant
  • … are deep red at the bases. In the north these plants can be grown in pools and then brought in for the winter. They can be cut back severely for use the following spring, but they must not be allowed to dry out. …
    Type: Garden Guide Plant
  • … October has arrived. Late season flowers are particularly important to pollinators preparing for winter regardless of whether they migrate like Monarch butterflies and some hummingbirds or store away honey for next spring's young like honeybees. …
    Type: Garden Guide Plant
  • … Russian sage is a wonderful, fragrant addition to the garden, blooming for more than two months in the late summer and fall. Small blue flowers contrast with gray, … root system has become established in the second year of growth, this becomes a perfect plant for very hot, dry, sunny garden settings. Plantings can reach 5 feet in height and spread an …
    Type: Garden Guide Plant
  • … Description: Look for this rare, state-endangered, grassland shorebird on a large lawn area or the gravel hill …
    Type: Birding