… green leaves are topped by chartreuse domes that mature into hundreds of small white flowers on this annual that works well in the annual flower displays or as a cut flower. Gardeners and … sap that can cause skin irritation in sensitive individuals. It's deer resistant and a host for a number of species of beneficial insects. Beneficial insects are those that are important to …
Type: Garden Guide Plant
… 'White Wings' has lovely white plumes tinged with pink sitting on top of dark green foliage. The feathery panicles are very densely packed with tiny flowers … After the blooms have died, the stalks with the dried seed heads are often left in place for winter interest. …
Type: Garden Guide Plant
… 'Amethyst' has feathery pink to lilac plumes on top of mounded lacy fern-like foliage. The thick, fluffy panicles are comprised of tiny, … After the blooms have died, the stalks with the dried seed heads are often left in place for winter interest. …
Type: Garden Guide Plant
… 'Diamond', sometimes known as False Spirea or False Goatsbeard, has pure white plumes on top of mounded, lacy green leaves. The thick, fluffy panicles are comprised of tiny, densely … After the blooms have died, the stalks with the dried seed heads are often left in place for winter interest. …
Type: Garden Guide Plant
… 'Snowdrift' has tall white plumes sitting on top of a full mound of finely cut, lacy green foliage. The soft, fluffy panicles are comprised … After the blooms have died, the stalks with the dried seed heads are often left in place for winter interest. …
Type: Garden Guide Plant
… Scented, brilliant orange flowers cover well-branched plants in spring on this nonhardy biennial bedding plant. This cultivar is unique in that it does not require … amount of energy needed to bring this crop to gardeners in northern climates that are too cold for the plant to overwinter naturally. Biennial plants are adapted to completing their life cycle …
Type: Garden Guide Plant
… stripe down the midrib) appear shortly before the white narrowly obovate petals that open on warm days to display the inner petals with their narrow green V marking and honey fragrance. Snowdrops are ideal selections for late winter and early spring color under deciduous trees. Their life cycle, adapted to …
Type: Garden Guide Plant
… ( Helenium 'Double Trouble') are the first of known doubles in the genus. Each petal on the daisy-like flowers has three notches at the tip and droops downward from the bottom of a … unable to produce viable seed. Strong, winged stems make 'Double Trouble' a great selection for the cutting garden as well as the landscape. All told, they last about two months. In spite …
Type: Garden Guide Plant
… 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 considered the hardiest for the Chicago area, it is best planted in full sun in a south-facing location close to a wall; …
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… The scalloped, silver-edged leaves of gold and silver chrysanthemum are the perfect foil for the bright yellow, button-like flowers that bloom in fall. This hardy plant will grow to 1 … by rhizomes up to 4 feet in width. The flowers lack the sterile flowers (ray florets) seen on members of most of the ornamental mums. The yellow button is actually composed of hundreds of …
Type: Garden Guide Plant
