… Mojito elephant ears is a leafy tropical plant with large heart-shaped leaves held on fleshy purple stems. The leaves are lime green with splashes of black in a random pattern making it a thrilling plant for partly shaded gardens and planters. It grows to about four feet high and four feet wide and …
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… appears with the flowers to 5 inches in height and width. This early spring ephemeral is great for planting under deciduous shade trees because it goes dormant as soon as the temperatures … place else) to the Crimean peninsula, where it grows in deciduous woodlands and between shrubs on high elevation plateaus. …
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… Celosia Tall sturdy stalks are topped by spikes of flowers and bracts ranging from light pink on the lower flowers to a brilliant flaming fuchsia-pink at the top. Celosias grown and flower … while songbirds are attracted to the small black seeds in fall. This is an excellent cultivar for cutting and using either in fresh or dried arrangements. 2020 – Ball Horticultural featured …
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… at the J.C. Raulston Arboretum in North Carolina. The flowers are rich claret-colored, except for ivory tips on the inner ring of petals. The flowers are much larger and showier than the species. It has …
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… It almost looks as though Picasso himself spattered red paint on to the rich yellow blooms of the Picasso canna. In any case, the vivid color combination is … it doesn’t stop until frost if you keep deadheading. Then, if you want to save the plants for next year, you can simply dig them up and store them in a damp medium like peat some place …
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… white undersides add a secondary element of color. Clouds of creamy white blossoms are borne on thin, graceful stems in 6-inch-wide clusters. These tall flower spikes are followed by very … creeks and ponds, in natural meadows or at the back of the border. A tall, graceful plant for sunny gardens. …
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… boss of golden stamens in the center of the flower. The 3-inch, Collarette-style flower blooms on a plant that grows to 2½ feet by the end of the season. This is a great little dahlia for bedding, containers, and cut flowers. Dahlias are not hardy in the Chicago area, and tubers …
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… Small, deep blue flowers on tall thin spikes come into bloom from mid-summer up to the first hard frost. Finely dissected … not hardy in Chicago-area gardens unless grown in a container and brought indoors for the winter. Full sun, well-drained soils, and good air movement are all key to success. …
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… crenata with a ‘bonsai-like’ growth habit featuring small leaves and a horizontal branches on a plant maturing at 30” in height. In the Chicago area, this cultivar is best grown in a … in winter. This use of Azalea or Camellia plant fertilizer will meet this species need for acidic soils and avoid leaf chlorosis. A female cultivar, this plant will only produce …
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… Iris cristata ‘Tennessee White’ is white with yellow crests on the falls. The flowers stand only 6” high but they are 3” wide, which is huge for such a low growing plant. Iris cristata is found in floodplains from Maryland to Oklahoma. It …
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