… This perennial grows to a height of 3 feet with full sun to partial shade and moderate moisture conditions. It has orange and yellow blooms with a dark center that attract butterflies from July through October. It belongs in a border and is resistant to deer. It is also attractive to birds. …
Type: Garden Guide Plant
… Carex radiata is perennial sedge common throughout Illinois, where it is found in woodlands and ravines. It prefers dappled sunlight to medium shade, moist conditions, and a rich loamy soil with abundant organic matter. The light green leaves grow in thick clumps …
Type: Garden Guide Plant
… Native to the Midwest, white turtlehead is an upright, clump-forming perennial producing showy pink and white flowers that attract birds and butterflies between August and October. It reaches a maximum height of 3 feet under partial …
Type: Garden Guide Plant
… 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
… Q. When should I plant my tender annual bulbs? A. It is safe to plant your tender bulbs after the average date of the last frost, which is … avoid ruining the soil’s structure. Tubers of caladium, canna, dahlia, montbretia (Crocosmia), and tuberose will emerge approximately two weeks after planting. Set out stakes for tall dahlias … time in early June. Dormant tubers that were started in February should begin to bloom in June and those started in March or early April should bloom in July. …
Type: Plant Info
… 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
… This shrub is a deciduous conifer with a pyramidal form needs full sun and moderate moisture conditions to reach a maximum height of 12 feet. It is a good specimen shrub. …
Type: Garden Guide Plant
… Found growing throughout most of North America, excluding the far western and northeastern states, this is an uncommon species. Found in undisturbed prairies or dunes, it prefers loose, sandy soil or gravel. The soft fuzzy leaves are long, narrow, and in pairs along a 2-foot stem tinged with purple. Spherical clusters of yellow-green flowers …
Type: Garden Guide Plant
… Caribbean copper plant is a tropical American plant with foliage that provides a burst of rich burgundy red color to a … 12 feet high, with a nice rounded habit. The broad three-inch leaves have long petioles and are arranged in whorls of three. The plants take full sun or light shade, and are drought-tolerant. The species name "cotinifolius" refers to Cotinus , the genus for our …
Type: Garden Guide Plant
… This maple is very similar to Acer japonicum and is also known commonly as the full moon maple. It can reach a height of 20 feet with a similar … to red. The round, palmate leaves are bright yellow, sometimes with red margins. Fall color is orange-red with some purple tinges. …
Type: Garden Guide Plant
