… Fragrant white to pale-pink flowers in spring develop into golden yellow fruit in the fall on Hook's #15 … Crabapples are small flowering trees that provide a showy display in the spring landscape for 1 to 2 weeks. In addition to the eye-catching buds and flowers, their foliage, habit, and fruit …
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… at the Chicago Botanic Garden were grown from plant material collected in Russia with a view to evaluate their potential to enhance the genetic diversity and disease resistance of crabapple hybrids in the United … Crabapples are small flowering trees that provide a showy display in the spring landscape for 1-2 weeks. In addition to the eye-catching buds and flowers, their foliage, habit and fruit …
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… name because the cup on its acorn almost entirely covers the nut, which is relatively unusual for oak trees. Acorns mature annually. The overcup oak is native to the southeastern U.S. The genus Quercus includes more than 600 species of the oak tree, of which 90 are native to North America; the Chicago Botanic Garden's collection contains more than 60 varieties and …
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… CRIMSON SPIRE™ oak is a cross between Q. robur and Q. alba that is notable for its columnar habit and red fall foliage. A relatively recent introduction, it is reported to be fast growing and drought tolerant. The genus Quercus includes more than 600 species of the oak tree, of which 90 are native to North America; the Chicago Botanic Garden's collection contains more than 60 varieties and …
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… including yellow, deep red, orange, and salmon, with some doubles. This is a superb annual for bedding or hanging baskets. It thrives in moderately fertile, well-drained soil in sunny … in salads or as a substitute for capers. This species may be a hybrid created by Incans prior to Spanish conquest. It is identified as growing from Bolivia north to Colombia in high elevations, but botanists have not been able to find it growing in natural …
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… June Bride Nippon spirea is so named for its abundant sprays of bridal white flowers produced in the most favored month for weddings. The genus Spiraea consists of small to medium sized flowering shrubs with a fine-textured twiggy mounding habit. The small simple leaves are generally lance-shaped and held close to the branch. Spring to early summer abundant blooms tend to be in white or pink tones, …
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… Weigela hortensis one of the first varieties of Weigela to reach the U.S. from its native Japan, arriving here well before 1900. 'Dart's Pink Lady' is a … are lined in clusters of warm shade of pink trumpet-shaped flowers, and with a spread of up to 12 feet, it makes an impressive specimen. Bees, butterflies, and hummingbirds love Weigela , and so do gardeners. For a plant that gives you so much to look at, they're very easy to care for. No particular …
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… Because of the way its slender, flexible stems tend to lean on whatever plants are around, Southern blue monkshood could easily be mistaken for a vine. In fact, it will often weave its way through bushes, so one of your spring blooming … could suddenly look like it has a second and very different bloom in the fall. It's native to open forests and creek banks from Illinois to as far south as Alabama. Aconitum is commonly …
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… Hardy kiwi vine 'Cordifolia' is female, and that's important to know if you want to grow it for the fruit as well as the flowers, because you'll need a male vine for …
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… silver Heuchera villosa hybrid introduced by Thierry Delabroye of France in 2008. It matures to a 12 inches tall by 14 inches wide mound of medium sized pink and silver leaves. New leaves … emerge dark rose pink with a silver overlay and deep purple veins. The leaf color transforms to lighter pink shades, retaining the dark veins, and intensifying the silver cover, as the … white flowers emerge on dark purple stems increasing the plant height to 18 inches. Suitable for full sun or part shade, in can be used massed in groups as a groundcover, added to containers …
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