… There’s everything to like about Pretoria canna. First, there’s the fresh orange of the flowers with their red throats, deigned to attract bees and hummingbirds (and, in the tropics, bats). Then there’s the foliage – a fresh light green, with finely drawn yellow striations. Cannas are native to Central and South America and they’re …
Type: Garden Guide Plant
… ( Cortaderia selloana 'Pumila') is a dwarf selection that will produce clumps 5 feet tall, with feathery ivory flower spikes to 8 feet tall. It is not winter hardy in the Chicago area. In … climates such as California, Hawaii, and New Zealand, it has proven to be an aggressive weed, with each clump of grass capable of producing more than one million seeds. …
Type: Garden Guide Plant
… Pinkish-lilac spurred flowers with dark purple lips are one of the harbingers of spring at the Chicago Botanic Garden. Delicate dark to blue-green foliage resembling that of a maiden hair fern appears with the flowers to 5 inches in height and width. This early spring ephemeral is great for …
Type: Garden Guide Plant
… flowering shoots bolt upright, featuring large, cupped five-petaled flowers that are flecked with magenta spots. In the center of each flower is a large cluster of pale yellow stamens. The blooms last a long time, slowly fading along with spring. The attractive glossy foliage is palmately divided and persists late into winter. …
Type: Garden Guide Plant
… Blackout Alumroot is a cultivar with glossy dark black-brown colored foliage. This plant creates a compact mounded plant 6 inches … and introduced by Dirk Scheys of Belgium in 2008. This plant will work well in shade or sun, with adequate moisture. …
Type: Garden Guide Plant
… Big Yellow Bird daylily is a striking addition to any garden, with huge 7-inch bright yellow blooms on tall stems with grass-like leaves. It blooms in mid season and may rebloom. The flowers are fragrant and …
Type: Garden Guide Plant
… Hibiscus ' Berrylicious' has rose pink to lavender flowers with deep red eyes. The flowers are huge, 9 inches across, with ruffled petals that overlap. It stands 4-5 feet high and blooms in mid summer to early fall. …
Type: Garden Guide Plant
… large red flowers in the summer months. It reaches a height of only about two to three feet with a width of about two feet so is perfectly suited to small urban gardens. As a form of the … swamp rose mallow it prefers moist, and even wet, soils but can manage in average garden soils with regular deep watering in hot dry conditions. …
Type: Garden Guide Plant
… Hibiscus moscheutos 'Sweet Caroline' has pink flowers with darker veins and a dark red eye. The flowers are 6-8” across with slightly ruffled overlapping and petals. At maturity, the plant stands 4-5 ft tall and …
Type: Garden Guide Plant
… Narcissus ‘Amor’ is in Division 3. It stands 12 -16 inches tall and blooms in mid season with flowers that are 5 inch across. It has white petals and a small yellow corona that has a … intoxicated and is often tied to the myth of a young man known as Narcissus who fell in love with his own reflection and drowned in the pool where he had been admiring himself. …
Type: Garden Guide Plant
