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  • … shrub grows up to 3 feet high with full sun to partial shade and moderate moisture conditions. From May through October it produces fragrant pink blooms that attract butterflies. It is a …
    Type: Garden Guide Plant
  • … This beautiful climber grows up to 10 feet high with full sun and moist soil conditions. From May through October it produces fragrant red blooms. It can be trained up as a climber or …
    Type: Garden Guide Plant
  • … indoor light and moderate moisture conditions to reach a maximum height of 40 feet. From late spring to early summer it produces attractive yellow and white flowers. …
    Type: Garden Guide Plant
  • … styled flowers open along the end of long waving wands of stems on this short lived perennial from the Caucasus Region. A potential addition to a prairie style landscape, it thrives in full …
    Type: Garden Guide Plant
  • … we forget about them With an armful of fragrant marigolds, I headed toward the laughter coming from my family’s graves.  That year, in Mexico for Día de los Muertos, I was a 16-year-old kid from Chicago who was just beginning to understand what the holiday meant. The Day of the Dead … tombstones and mausoleums, stood in a circle—aunts, uncles, cousins, my parents and siblings from Chicago. Some of them had tears in their eyes—from laughter. That’s when I realized that …
    Type: Blog
  • … hold the power to restore our prairies, woodlands, and wetlands. The native plants that grow from these seeds breathe new life into the habitats that provide food for bees, shelter for birds, and clean air and water for us. As threats from climate change and invasive species increase, nationwide shortages of native seed slow down … solution—producing more native seed adapted to the local conditions where it’s used—will come from local, regional, and national collaborations. From habitat restorations in our local forest …
    Type: Research
  • … needs partial to full shade and moderate moisture conditions to reach a height of 2 feet. From May through August it produces showy pink blooms. It is a specimen in a border or ground …
    Type: Garden Guide Plant
  • … produces tall (up to 30 inches), elegant, branched sprays of white flowers in midsummer from green buds above bright green leaves. Shaded locations with moist soils throughout the year …
    Type: Garden Guide Plant
  • … a height of about 4 feet with full sun to partial shade and moderate to moist soil conditions. From early spring to late summer it produces attractive orange-colored blooms. It is good in a …
    Type: Garden Guide Plant
  • … and moderate moisture conditions It has showy purple and rose blooms that attract butterflies from May through August and belongs in a border. It is native to the Midwest. …
    Type: Garden Guide Plant