… Gemini™ is a patented hybrid tea rose released by Bear Creek Gardens, Inc. of Medford, Oregon, in 1999. … From May through October, it produces lightly fragrant salmon-pink and white blooms. It is a hybrid cross between the orange New Year™ and pink-and-white Anne Morrow Lindbergh™. Archived Copy: This content was captured before February 2022, and is no longer being updated. …
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… has a decidedly pyramidal growth habit. Reaching more than 50 feet tall at maturity, it is easily recognized by its bright green needles, which suggest a feathery appearance. This tree … this tree, which was known only from fossil records until its rediscovery in China in 1944. It is a noteworthy deciduous conifer. Archived Copy: This content was captured before February 2022, and is no longer being updated. …
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… of the founding of the Chicago Horticultural Society. Virtually unavailable in commerce it is an 'easy keeper' that is resistant to most pests and diseases. Archived Copy: This content was captured before February 2022, and is no longer being updated. …
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… Bullhead lily, also called yellow pond lily, is an aquatic native often founding floating in quiet ponds in the clearings of woods. Related … on the water. Flowers are large yellow globes atop a thick, upright stem. This subspecies is distinguished by having red markings in the throat of the flower - which you will probably not … you are sitting in a canoe. Archived Copy: This content was captured before February 2022, and is no longer being updated. …
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… hardy shrub's branches in June. It will eventually reach 10 feet in size if corrective pruning is not performed. Pink Cloud beauty bush is one of the species of suckering shrubs whose size can be controlled by removing no more that … droughts once established. Archived Copy: This content was captured before February 2022, and is no longer being updated. …
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… Ground cover Rosa ‘Noamel’ is sold as Flower Carpet® Appleblossom in the retail nurseries. It is a spreading deciduous shrub that grows to a maximum height of 2 feet and 3 feet or more in … beds and as a ground cover. Archived Copy: This content was captured before February 2022, and is no longer being updated. …
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… rose sports attractive waxy purple leaves and small soft pink flowers. Unlike most roses, it is grown mainly for its foliage, a unique combination of purple, gray, and green. The pink … in May and June, and are followed in the fall by orange-red hips that last into winter. It is a vase-shaped shrub with minimal thorns on reddish canes that grows 6 – 8 feet tall. Archived Copy: This content was captured before February 2022, and is no longer being updated. …
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… Swamp rose ( Rosa palustris ) is one of many water-loving, water-absorbing plants selected for the Rainwater Glen. An Illinois … The large, red visible follow fragrant pink flowers that bloom in early summer. Swamp rose is used in home landscapes with full sun and moist, acidic soil, and room for colonies to form. Archived Copy: This content was captured before February 2022, and is no longer being updated. …
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… Brown-eyed Susan is one of 5 species of Rudbeckia native to Illinois. It is very hardy and somewhat drought-tolerant. It forms a more bushy mound than the more commonly … but it may reseed. Archived Copy: This content was captured before February 2022, and is no longer being updated. …
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… Wild or prairie petunia is a perennial species of gravelly or rocky areas in the eastern and central states. The leaves … with long petioles. The five-lobed flowers do resemble pale lavender petunias, but this is in fact in the acanthus family, not related to true petunias. A pretty little plant, it does … by taller plants. Archived Copy: This content was captured before February 2022, and is no longer being updated. …
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