… Lilium 'Claude Shride' has dark-red flowers with yellow-orange spots and no fragrance. The flowers face downward, and the deeply recurved petals bend backward. The stem has whorled leaves and can reach a height of 4 to 6 feet. This is a Martagon lily that grows well in woodlands and …
Type: Garden Guide Plant
… Schrenk mock orange is native to eastern Siberia, China and Korea where it grows on wooded hillsides and open stream banks. It bears large fragrant single creamy white flowers in May to June. In general it is a medium-sized deciduous shrub, growing to about six feet in height and in width with gently arching branches, but can sometimes reach ten feet in height. While this …
Type: Garden Guide Plant
… also known as Mexican feather grass, is native to hot dessert areas in the American Southwest and Mexico as well as South America. It has very slender, almost wispy leaves, and sends up feathery panicles that mature from a light, delicate green to blond. This is a grass that moves with the slightest breeze, and a setting sun can turn those panicles into a cloud of gold. It can be a beautiful contrast to …
Type: Garden Guide Plant
… This award-winning Weigela is an old-fashioned tried-and-true bush that may well have been in your grandmother's garden. In spring and summer,clusters of pink buds open to pale blush flowers, shown off against variegated green and white foliage. Foliage is red, orange, and purple in the fall. The plant is most useful as a …
Type: Garden Guide Plant
… What do a pharmacist named Eugene, a cargo ship, and a home garden have in common? They all helped introduce invasive species that affect the … spread widely as they out-compete local native species for resources like food, water, light, and space, and can eventually damage entire landscapes. Introduced as a food source, garlic mustard ( …
Type: Blog
… of the world's truly great gardens are a heady synthesis of exquisite horticulture, framed and enhanced by great garden architecture and furnishings. Where a designer places a seat, for example, can reveal a great deal about how they want the garden to be perceived. Dumbarton Oaks, located in Washington, D.C., and designed by brilliant landscape architect Beatrix Farrand, is a perfect example of a garden …
Type: Item Detail
… Sycamore ( Platanus ), maple ( Acer ), ash ( Fraxinus ), oaks ( Quercus ), birch ( Betula ) and others Description & Symptoms Anthracnose refers to a group of fungal diseases that cause discolored spots on leaves and, occasionally, on other parts of a tree. These spots usually are tan, purplish, dark brown, or black and merge into dead areas that sometimes follow the leaf veins. Leaves, which may become curled …
Type: Plant Info
… magnolia is a small tree with wide-spreading branches native to only a few counties in Florida and Texas. Considered by some to be a more diminutive variety of bigleaf magnolia ( Magnolia macrophylla ), this species has exotic-looking leaves over 15" long and very large, fragrant white, six-petaled flowers. The bases of the three inner petals have … stunning beauty of their usually large flowers, which emerge prior to the foliage in spring, and are often fragrant. While shades of pink are the most common bloom color, the Magnolia …
Type: Garden Guide Plant
… This ground cover grows to a height of 1 foot with full sun and moist soil conditions. It has red and yellow blooms in May and June. …
Type: Garden Guide Plant
… as playful as a tub filled with tomatoes, or as romantic as an antique urn laced with roses and baby's breath. Choose a style to make your own! Versatile and Beautiful On decks and rooftops, container plantings bring life, color, and softness to hard edges. Close to …
Type: Plant Info
