… 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 make them attractive plants almost year round. They are actively hybridized for flower color, leaf color, fruit size/color, shape and – most importantly – disease …
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… 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 make them attractive plants almost year round. They are actively hybridized for flower color, leaf color, fruit size/color, shape and, most importantly, disease resistance. …
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… mid-summer. It showed very poor susceptibility to mildew, leading to a overall poor evaluation for planting in the Chicagoland area. In order to minimize mildew issues, pay attention to proper spacing of plants for air circulation, keep plants moist during droughts, and cut back after flowering. …
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… mock orange is native to China, India, Southeast Asia, and Australia, where it is cultivated for its fragrant flowers that open prior to rain as a response to a drop in air pressure. In hot … hedge or screen and is pruned accordingly. However it can be grown as a tree or standard form for a specimen. It can grow to about 20 feet high and about 8 to 10 feet wide and prefers …
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… the mouth of the corona although the mouth itself is slightly expanded. 'Jetfire' is great for containers and forcing into early indoor bloom. The bulbs are toxic and will not be eaten by deer or rabbits. The name Narcissus comes from the Greek word for narcotic and is tied to the myth of a young man known as Narcissus who fell in love with his …
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… systems like oaks that permit the two species to live side by side without directly competing for soil nutrients. By the time the trees leaf out, the bulbs have completed their growth cycle for the year and have begun to go dormant. …
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… Paeonia 'Ursa Minor' is an herbaceous peony suitable for smaller gardens. Its bomb-style bloom consists of tightly spaced raspberry cream petals and … than 2 inches below the soil surface. Deer resistant. Peonies are popular garden plants, known for their stunning flowers, their cold hardiness, and the huge variety of their colors, forms, …
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… of Douglas-fir is a slow-growing miniature globe of short blue-green needles, suitable for a rock garden or border. It becomes more irregular and open with age, but grows to a maximum … Coast; in the Pacific coastal regions, it can attain heights of up to 250'. They are used for timber and are valued as Christmas trees because of their short needles with good retention. …
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… oak is a relatively recently introduced cross between the English oak and the bur oak notable for its pyramidal habit and yellow fall foliage. The genus Quercus includes more than 600 species … (biennial). Oaks are often imposing shade trees at maturity and provide habitat and food for a variety of wildlife. …
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… is a cross between the English oak ( Q. robur ) and the swamp white oak ( Q. bicolor ) notable for its columnar habit. The genus Quercus includes more than 600 species of the oak tree, of … (biennial). Oaks are often imposing shade trees at maturity and provide habitat and food for a variety of wildlife. …
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