… Aloe 'Goliath' is a very large unbranched aloe and can reach 12 feet tall. Salmon colored flowers appear in late fall and winter and reach an additional 2 feet above the leaves. The leaves are a medium green color, large and …
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… Phantom Joe Pye weed is a form of a plant native to the moist meadows and stream margins of eastern north America. Phantom is a small form of Joe Pye weed reaching about 2 to 3 feet in height and about 1-2 feet in width making it an excellent plant for small gardens and borders. Its purplish-pink flower heads attract butterflies and pollinators in the summer and …
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… The Rough Tree Fern is native to eastern Australia and Tasmania and can withstand cooler temperatures and elevations than the Lacy Tree Fern ( Cyathea cooperi ). It has long arching fronds with lacy …
Type: Garden Guide Plant
… crabapple, sometimes called pillar crabapple, is notable for its distinctive narrow habit and bright orange and red fall color. It bears white flowers and sparse green fruit. Crabapples are small flowering trees that provide a showy display in the …
Type: Garden Guide Plant
… reaching to nearly 3 feet. The large, regular, lily-shaped flowers are variable in color, and a pale yellow form, Lycoris longituba flava has been named. Up to 15 different colors and forms from white to yellow to pink and median shades have been recognized in China. It is hardy to USDA Zone 5 and is a vigorous and …
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… Coral Reef beebalm grows to around 3-4 feet high and 3-4 feet wide and bears fragrant hot pink flowers in the summer months from July to August. If you gently rub … you'll be pleasantly surprised by its fragrance. Bright pompoms of flowers bloom in midsummer, and removing faded flowers will extend flowering. Beebalm is great for attracting bees, …
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… PRAIRIE TITAN® Kentucky Coffeetree is derived from a tree native to the streambanks and floodplains of midwestern North America. Coffee trees are either male or female and this particular tree is a male cultivar. It bears greenish-white fragrant flowers in the … dark brown seed pods that the female trees bear. PRAIRIE TITAN® has fine bluish-green foliage and grows into a large upright but spreading tree up to sixty feet high and thirty feet wide. …
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… Frans Hals daylily has bicolored 4½-inch flowers with alternating red and yellow petals and a creamy orange mid-rib. It blooms in mid to late season when it attracts hummingbirds and butterflies. Although each flower lasts only one day, there are multiple buds on each stalk …
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… weather on this nonhardy, evergreen shrub from Central America. Winter hardy in USDA zones 7 and warmer, it is used as an annual in Chicago-area gardens. Full sun in the hottest microclimates available in your garden and average soils are keys to success in the Upper Midwest. Once the plant is rooted in, you will need water only during extended droughts. It's insect and disease resistant, and is difficult to overwinter indoors because of the full sun and warm …
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… Dicentra cucullaria is a native American wildflower found in middle and eastern North America. It is also known as Dutchman’s Breeches. It grows 6 – 12 inches high and blooms in early spring. The white flowers are shaped like pantaloons with yellow tips and hang from leafless stems above the grayish green, deeply cut foliage. The seeds have a …
Type: Garden Guide Plant
