… Paeonia 'Ursa Minor' is an herbaceous peony suitable for smaller gardens. Its bomb-style bloom consists of tightly spaced raspberry cream petals and … than 2 inches below the soil surface. Deer resistant. Peonies are popular garden plants, known for their stunning flowers, their cold hardiness, and the huge variety of their colors, forms, …
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… the mouth of the corona although the mouth itself is slightly expanded. 'Jetfire' is great for containers and forcing into early indoor bloom. The bulbs are toxic and will not be eaten by deer or rabbits. The name Narcissus comes from the Greek word for narcotic and is tied to the myth of a young man known as Narcissus who fell in love with his …
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… mid-summer. It showed very poor susceptibility to mildew, leading to a overall poor evaluation for planting in the Chicagoland area. In order to minimize mildew issues, pay attention to proper spacing of plants for air circulation, keep plants moist during droughts, and cut back after flowering. …
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… mock orange is native to China, India, Southeast Asia, and Australia, where it is cultivated for its fragrant flowers that open prior to rain as a response to a drop in air pressure. In hot … hedge or screen and is pruned accordingly. However it can be grown as a tree or standard form for a specimen. It can grow to about 20 feet high and about 8 to 10 feet wide and prefers …
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… gayfeather or marsh blazing star ( Liatris spicata ) is becoming more popular with gardeners for perennial, meadow, and prairie gardens. The thistle-like, reddish-purple flowers are borne in … the formal garden, or plant it in wet meadows or at marsh edges. It is one of the best plants for butterfly gardens and is a beautiful, spiky addition to prairies or meadows. …
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… These sturdy, stately plants, hybrids of our native rose mallows, are prized for their use as structure in a perennial border. Everything about them is large, from their rich … leaves, ‘Luna White’ has saucer-shaped flowers up to 8 inches across are snow white except for a contrasting red eye. The blossoms have conspicuous columnar reproductive structures in the …
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… systems like oaks that permit the two species to live side by side without directly competing for soil nutrients. By the time the trees leaf out, the bulbs have completed their growth cycle for the year and have begun to go dormant. …
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… is a cross between the English oak ( Q. robur ) and the swamp white oak ( Q. bicolor ) notable for its columnar habit. The genus Quercus includes more than 600 species of the oak tree, of … (biennial). Oaks are often imposing shade trees at maturity and provide habitat and food for a variety of wildlife. …
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… oak is a relatively recently introduced cross between the English oak and the bur oak notable for its pyramidal habit and yellow fall foliage. The genus Quercus includes more than 600 species … (biennial). Oaks are often imposing shade trees at maturity and provide habitat and food for a variety of wildlife. …
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… the genus Plectranthus that are familiar to northern gardeners are small house plants valued for their colorful aromatic leaves. Being in the mint family, they have square stems and opposite … very different: a large shrub native to forest margins and streams of South Africa, grown for its huge sprays of blue-purple flowers that from a distance resemble lilacs. Each floret is a …
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