… This plant is a veronica. Veronica is named for St Veronica who comforted Jesus on his path to Calvary. Spike veronica has violet-blue flower spikes from early to mid-summer. It grows to about eighteen inches in height and about twelve inches in width and …
Type: Garden Guide Plant
… Dendrochilum glumaceum is known as the husk-like or hay-scented orchid and it is native to the Philippines. The strap-like leaves are 20 inches long. The drooping flower stems and very thin and wiry, to 18 inches long. The top foot is covered with pairs of tiny flowers, up to 48. The petals are …
Type: Garden Guide Plant
… Spotted beebalm is a plant native to eastern North America, where it is found on the sandy edges of rivers, lakes, and coastal waterways. Its name refers to the unusual flower head which consists of yellowish leaves with purple spots resting on a …
Type: Garden Guide Plant
… This perennial grows to a height of 94 inches with full sun to partial shade and moderate moisture conditions. It has pink, coral, and apricot blooms in July and August. It is a specimen in a border and is resistant to deer. …
Type: Garden Guide Plant
… In the face of increasingly unpredictable winter weather, what is remaining constant, what is changing, and how is nature affected? Use winter-based phenomena to drive investigations around these questions. Create tools to measure and graph the position of the sun. Track weather changes, observe animal signs and …
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… This is a large, deciduous shrub that can slowly grow to 16 feet high and 10 feet wide. It blooms with panicles of scarlet flowers that appear in late spring to early summer. These provide a contrast with its dark green foliage. It is not fussy about soil …
Type: Garden Guide Plant
… This plant is called a shooting star because its flower is shaped like a comet or a shooting star with the petals trailing behind the head of the plant. Aphrodite Shooting star grows to about 18 inches tall and about 12 inches wide and is tolerant of a range of soils but prefers shady locations. Aphrodite bears deep pink flowers in late spring to early summer. …
Type: Garden Guide Plant
… Also known as the ladyfinger banana, this is the cultivar that once covered thousands of acres in lowland Central America before the arrival of a disease. It is now confined to high elevations or locations around the world currently free of the disease. At 17 feet in height, this is a cultivar more suited to commercial production than for use in the tropical home landscape. …
Type: Garden Guide Plant
… Pink Fountain is a deciduous shrub with an arching, fountain-like habit. It can grow to a height of 4 to 5 feet with a similar spread. It requires full sun or partial shade and moderate water …
Type: Garden Guide Plant
… This species is a compact, upright plant reaching up to 2' tall with coarse, arrow-shaped leaves. Numerous … is less intense and lighter than that of most cultivars of Salvia x sylvestris. This easy-to-grow, hardy perennial is usually sold as the cultivar 'Purple Rain'. A rich purple salvia …
Type: Garden Guide Plant
