… Candelabra aloe ( Aloe arborescens ) is native to South Africa's Cape Province, north to Zimbabwe and Malawi, where it flourishes on rocky outcrops and stony ridges. It was originally planted there as security fencing around kraals, or livestock …
Type: Garden Guide Plant
… in 1936, Frances Williams has long been a staple of the shade garden. This large hosta is noted for its gold margined leaves. It is a sport of H. sieboldiana 'Elegans.' This is a large hosta (2 feet tall by 4 feet wide). It blooms in June and July with white flowers that attract hummingbirds. Hostas are shade tolerant, easy to grow, and long lived. Although they produce flowers held high above the foliage on long stalks called …
Type: Garden Guide Plant
… Sweetbay magnolia is native to the coastal southeastern United States,where it is notable for its creamy white, … 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 palette also includes white, yellows, and purples. Another dominant feature is a prominent fruiting body of small follicles forming a …
Type: Garden Guide Plant
… Sweetbay magnolia (var. virginiana ) is native to the coastal United States from North Carolina to Massachusetts, where it is notable … 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 palette also includes white, yellows, and purples. Another dominant feature is a prominent fruiting body of small follicles forming a …
Type: Garden Guide Plant
… FASHIONISTA® Moulin Rouge Salvia FASHIONISTA® salvia series is a collection of dreamy pinks, purples, and blues that have a beautiful fragrance and attract pollinators and birds. This salvia is low maintenance, requires little water (once …
Type: Garden Guide Plant
… with overlapping, slightly ruffled petals. At maturity, 'Blue River II' stands 5 feet tall and blooms from mid-July to fall. It is attractive to bees and hummingbirds and resistant to deer. It is a great plant for sunny positions and continually …
Type: Garden Guide Plant
… A Very Different Garden Walk What is it about walking in the Prairie that is so very different from any of our other Garden walks? … species of native plants growing so closely together, many of them taller than ourselves and completely unknown in our own gardens. Is it the knowledge that this semi-wild place is only a remnant of what once covered northeastern Illinois and much of the Midwest? Or, maybe what compels us to walk the Prairie in fall, when it’s at its …
Type: Walks
… Coreopsis palmata is one of the earliest of the prairie composites (members of the aster family that have composite … bright yellow, sterile, ray flowers (petals) surround many fertile yellow disc flowers (small and typically not showy) to create a flower. A perennial native to Illinois and much of the central United States, it typically reaches 1 foot to 3 feet tall and blooms for …
Type: Garden Guide Plant
… Phlox subulata ‘Apple Blossom’ is commonly known as a moss phlox or a creeping phlox. It grows only 2 to 6 inches high, forming … a showy display of light pink flowers that can cascade over a wall. Plant it in full sun. It is resistant to deer and is hardy in zones 3 - 9. The genus name is from the Greek word phlox meaning flame in …
Type: Garden Guide Plant
… Phlox subulata ‘Snowflake’ is commonly known as a moss phlox or creeping phlox. It grows only 6 inches high, forming a dense … wall. It blooms in spring with a showy display of pure white flowers. Plant it in full sun. It is resistant to deer and is hardy in zones 3 -8. The genus name is from the Greek word phlox meaning flame in …
Type: Garden Guide Plant
