… moisture and can support a range of fauna including insects and frogs. Good quality light is necessary to develop and maintain leaf colors. Since this plant is epiphytic it is essential that it be grown in freely draining soil. This plant is not hardy in Chicago but can …
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… ‘Fairview’ is an herbaceous peony with classic, double white blossoms. Peony bloom time is classified as early, mid-, and late; ‘Fairview’ is a midseason bloomer. It grows to 36 inches tall, taking on a shrubby appearance throughout the …
Type: Garden Guide Plant
… ‘Firelight’ is an herbaceous peony with a row of single pink petals surrounding a circle of golden stamens. Peony bloom time is classified as early, mid-, and late; ‘Firelight’ is an early bloomer. It grows to 36 inches tall, taking on a shrubby appearance throughout the …
Type: Garden Guide Plant
… ‘Glory Be’ is an herbaceous peony with luminescent fuschia blooms, surrounding green pistils and cherry pink stigmas. Peony bloom time is classified as early, mid-, and late. ‘Glory Be’ is an early bloomer. It grows to 28 inches tall, taking on a shrubby appearance throughout the …
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… ‘Liebchen,’ German for sweetheart, is an herbaceous peony with semi-double flowers in delicate shades of pink. Peony bloom time is classified as early, mid-, and late. ‘Liebchen’ is a midseason bloomer. It grows to 30 inches tall, taking on a shrubby appearance throughout the …
Type: Garden Guide Plant
… fall. The flowers are sterile and ‘self clean’ (fall off by themselves), while the foliage is deep green and disease resistant. Plant this shrub rose in full sun and well-drained but moist … a minimum of a 3-foot radius between this rose and other plants. Height in the Chicago region is about 3 feet during a normal year. This is an All American Rose Society Selection and is recommended as a landscape rose. Landscape …
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… Polygonatum commutatum or Solomon’s Seal is a native woodland perennial to 3 feet in height producing up to 20 clusters of pendent white … individual plants over time will grow into good sized colonies. Each arching stem is clothed in 6” long by 4” wide green leaves in parallel rows. Unlike many other spring woodland … will not go dormant when the heat of summer sets in. Free from most insects and diseases, it is unfortunately often eaten by deer. The genus name derives from the Greek polys(many) and …
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… Narcissus ‘Mary Gay Lirette’ is in Division 11a. It stands 14 - 16 inches high and blooms in early to mid season with 3¾ inch … scented flowers. The petals are white and roundish with a small point at the tip. The corona is a light yellowish pink and is split to the base. The six corona segments closely overlay the petals forming an inner and an …
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… TRIUMPH® Japanese snowball bush viburnum is a deciduous shrub that grows to a height and width of 6'. In May, it produces white snowball-shaped flower clusters. The flowers attract butterflies. The foliage is deep green with prominent venation that gives the leaves a pleated appearance from which the Latin species name plicatum is derived; fall color is reddish-purple. Viburnums are a versatile genus of multi-stemmed shrubs …
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… Annie Wang, Student Carillonneur: Annie Wang is a rising fourth-year chemistry major at the University of Chicago. She learned about the … a few weeks later! She passed her carillonneur exam at the 2023 Congress at Cohasset and is very excited to perform at her first concerts this summer. Outside of her love of tower bells, … trying new desserts, drawing, and painting. Kevin Chang, Student Carillonneur: Kevin Chang is a Student Carillonist and M.D.-Ph.D. student at the University of Chicago Pritzker School of …
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