… This cultivar is a shorter flowering sport of Allium 'Summer Beauty' with lavender flowers at 12 inches in height. …
Type: Garden Guide Plant
… 'White Beauty' is a vigorous plant with rust-red basal ring in each white flower. Leaves have wavy margins. …
Type: Garden Guide Plant
… This specimen evergreen perennial grows to a height of 3 feet with partial to full shade and moist soil conditions. …
Type: Garden Guide Plant
… This oval shade tree can grow as tall as 75 feet with full sun and moderate moisture conditions. …
Type: Garden Guide Plant
… This oval shade tree can grow as high as 75 feet with full sun and moderate moisture conditions. …
Type: Garden Guide Plant
… Spheres in the Sensory Garden Ricochet in the Lakeside Gardens We had the opportunity to talk with lighting designers Lee Fiskness and Travis Shupe while they were programming installations … collaborate to make Lightscape such a magical event. Lightscape is produced in partnership with Sony Music and creatively produced by Culture Creative. Planning takes more than six months … lighting designers Fiskness and Shupe have worked on Lightscape. Last year, they collaborated with seasoned Lightscape designer, Christopher Wren. This year, they are programming transitional …
Type: Blog
… Hydrangeas are the ornamental darlings of the woody plant world. Long popular with gardeners, some hydrangeas were sold in the Midwest before the Civil War. Like many plants, … H. quercifolia ). In the past decade, breeders have been busy creating dozens of new varieties with noteworthy attributes. Hydrangeas tout big beefy blossoms that are generally cream-colored, … part shade in soils that are moist, but well-drained. Plants will tolerate full sun if grown with consistently moist soil. H. arborescens (Smooth Hydrangea) Smooth hydrangea is a …
Type: Plant Info
… the English Walled or the Landscape Gardens . They all feature individual garden rooms filled with gorgeous, best-for-the-Midwest plants, meandering paths, tidy brick-edged beds, fountains or pools, welcome benches to stop and admire with views across the lakes, and most importantly, captivating surprises at every turn. Explore … in late autumn are the “big boys” — melons, squashes, gourds, and pumpkins. Visitors are guaranteed to see plants in all stages of their growing cycle, especially when they flower on …
Type: Walks
… my garden plants. A. Many winter injuries common to plants in the Chicago area can be avoided with a few precautionary practices: Since evergreens continue to lose moisture through their … heave out of the ground during periods of freeze/thaw, gently press them back into the ground with your hands—don’t stomp on the earth around them. If you haven’t already done so, mulch garden beds with evergreen boughs, several inches of healthy shredded leaves or compost—only when the ground …
Type: Plant Info
… In partnership with the Garden Conservancy Lecture and book signing by Marta McDowell Thursday, May 12, 7 – 9 p.m. Alsdorf Auditorium $37 nonmember; members receive 20% discount $15 with student ID Garden Conservancy members and students, please call (847) 835-6801 to register … they have changed from administration to administration. From George Washington’s obsession with collecting trees to Michelle Obama’s kitchen garden, find out how the White House grounds …
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