… Beautiful white flowers in early spring are followed in mid-season with deep red, tart, pie-cherries on a bush maturing at 4' x 4'. Resistant to several of the fruit diseases common to cherries. Should be planted in a sunny, moderately fertile soil with good drainage (no standing water. Mixed fall color adds another season of interest to this …
Type: Garden Guide Plant
… of pink buds that open into starry white flowers appear in June and contrast beautifully with the dark burgundy foliage of this dwarf form of a small shrub native to eastern and central … Full to partial sun and average soils are among the few requirements needed for success with this 4-foot tall deciduous shrub. The early frosts of fall bring out reddish tints in the …
Type: Garden Guide Plant
… colorful plumes appear that extend two to three feet above the foliage on blue stems with hints of purple. The newly emerging flowers or "glumes" are dark red and orange, with long hairs or "awns" and showy yellow pollen, maturing to golden yellow. The foliage ranges …
Type: Garden Guide Plant
… ( T. cordata ) and the bigleaf linden ( T. dasystyla ). It is a medium-sized deciduous tree with a rounded pyramidal shape that can reach a height of 60’ and a spread of 30’. As it ages, its branches become more pendulous. It blooms in May-June with fragrant pale yellowish-white flowers that appear in drooping clusters that are attractive …
Type: Garden Guide Plant
… a hardy evergreen perennial that forms a mat that is 4” tall and 8” wide. It blooms in summer with yellow, star-shaped flowers. It gets its name from the whorls of six tiny needle-like leaves … soil in full sun (this plant will also tolerate some shade). 'Golddigger' is a selection with new growth that emerges soft yellow, later turning green. …
Type: Garden Guide Plant
… The nannyberry viburnum can be a large multi-stemmed shrub or trained with a single stem as a small tree. In May it produces abundant white flowers. These give way to fruit that change from pink/rose to blue/black fruits with multiple colors persisting at the same time. Viburnums are a versatile genus of …
Type: Garden Guide Plant
… is a more compact shrub that the species at a height and spread of 6'. It blooms in May with pinwheel-shaped clusters of white flowers that give way to red fruit in the fall. The fruit contrasts with its fall foliage of yellow-orange. Viburnums are a versatile genus of multi-stemmed shrubs …
Type: Garden Guide Plant
… and mounded plants that quickly grow to 6 inches tall and wide in the spring and are covered with small pansy like flowers. Uniform blue petals surround the darker halo encasing the yellow eye. This viola flowers up to two weeks earlier than other cultivars with a heavier production of flowers. Plant in full sun, well drained soils, water if dry periods …
Type: Garden Guide Plant
… Description: The earliest and latest migrant of the brown thrush species can be seen with its characteristic tail bobbing almost anywhere at the Garden. …
Type: Birding
… Description: Although associated with early successional woodlands, this species can be found in any shrubby or wooded habitat at …
Type: Birding
