… This cultivar is actually a strain of mixed cultivars that range from cherry to deep red, frequently with darker spots on the petals. Red lady lenten rose grows well in moist soil and tolerates partial shade. In most winters, the evergreen foliage is damaged and can be removed as the flowers start to push up through the soil without harming the plant. …
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… OVATION™ London planetree is a hybrid selected for its vigorous growth rate, uniform broadly pyramidal to rounded habit, and attractive foliage. It develops the attractive exfoliating bark expected of planetrees. This … Grows® is a plant introduction partnership of the Chicago Botanic Garden, the Morton Arboretum and the Ornamental Growers Association of Northern Illinois formed to promote plant cultivars …
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… Prunus avium is the scientific name for the sweet cherry, with delicious varieties including 'Bing' and 'Rainier'. One of spring's beauties, this cultivar, however, is grown for the abundance … produce fruit. Other features of this ornamental tree include glossy dark reddish-brown bark and 4-inch-long ovate toothed leaves that emerge bronze in the spring. Fall color is a mix of …
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… LILLI MARLEEN® floribunda rose ( Rosa 'Korlima') is a vibrant red rose with lightly fragrant, cupped, semidouble flowers. Established plants can be expected to reach 2½ feet in height and 2 feet in width if grown in full sun and moderately fertile soil with adequate moisture. This is an older cultivar that is, …
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… This plant is a veronica. Veronica is named for St Veronica who comforted Jesus on his path to Calvary. … flower spikes from early to mid-summer. It grows to about eighteen inches in height and about twelve inches in width and has dark green foliage. Dead-heading will encourage reblooming, cut back completely after …
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… of the best tips for lawn care actually reduce our carbon footprint. For example, watering and mowing less often generally is more beneficial for grass. Tom Tiddens, plant health care supervisor at the Chicago Botanic Garden, oversees the care and maintenance of more than 80 acres of grass, and he offers an array of tips to care for your …
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… Stabler's golden-scaled male fern is derived from a naturally occurring hybrid found in the damp rocky woodlands across the northern Us, Europe and Asia. It has bright green fronds with crested edges and golden-brown hairs on the stems. Overall the plant can grow to 3 feet in height and about 3 …
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… Often seen in floral arrangements and bouquets, ‘Lucifer’ is an eye-catching cultivar with brilliant red, tubular flowers that appear in mid-summer on arching 3-foot-tall stems. Its leaves are pleated and swordlike and emerge from a corm. Crocosmias like it warm, and although ‘Lucifer’ is …
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… This is a popular old-fashioned juniper. It grows to about 5 feet with full sun to partial shade and well-drained soil. It is extremely cold hardy. It has a spreading habit with gray-green foliage and can be used for mass plantings and as a foundation plant, hedge, screen, and specimen. …
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… Wetlands Invader Ever wonder what that tall plant with a feathery-tufted top is that you see growing along our roadside ditches? It’s called common reed ( Phragmites australis ), and in recent years this highly invasive plant has spread through the Chicago region at an alarming rate. Because the reed grows up to 15 feet high, can be very densely populated, and has a tenacious rhizome (underground stem) network, it is a threat to native wetland …
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