… Sensitive fern is a creeping perennial that grows to a maximum height of 4 feet. It requires partial to full shade and medium to wet moisture conditions. The plant does not bloom. It is used mostly as a specimen, a ground cover, or in a border. …
Type: Garden Guide Plant
… with full sun to partial shade to full shade. It has white blooms from May through October. It is a specimen in a border or a ground cover and is native to the Midwest. …
Type: Garden Guide Plant
… full sun to partial shade and moderate moisture conditions. It has lavender and purple blooms in May and June. It is a ground cover or an understory and is resistant to deer. …
Type: Garden Guide Plant
… moisture conditions. It has pink blooms that attract butterflies from July to October. It is a specimen in a hedge and is resistant to deer. …
Type: Garden Guide Plant
… Fireball neoregelia is a low-growing clumping bromeliad that has dramatic dark maroon strappy leaves that form a … and maintain leaf colors. Since this plant is epiphytic, it is essential that it be grown in freely draining soil. This plant is not hardy in Chicago but can be successfully overwintered indoors. …
Type: Garden Guide Plant
… the native Potawatomi as ashosikwimia'kuk, which means "smells like muskrat scent," Echinacea is a quintessential midwestern native that dots prairies from Illinois to Virginia, and Louisiana … choice of midwestern gardeners, but it's also a pollinator favorite, and a key ingredient in herbal teas and natural remedies. Coneflowers In Our Gardens Over the last few decades, plants once native to midwestern prairies have been …
Type: Plant Info
… Native to mountainsides in Turkey, 'Pink Giant' is an upright-growing bulb, producing showy pink flowers during late winter and mid-spring. It … of 9 inches under full sun to partial shade with moderate soil moisture conditions. The plant is useful as a ground cover or understory spring flower beneath deciduous trees, and it is …
Type: Garden Guide Plant
… Nantucket serviceberry is a low growing shrub that will form dense colonies over time. It is native to the coastal plains of northeastern North America and is relatively rare in cultivation. Its white flowers, blue-black berries and showy fall foliage color are typical of … genus Amelanchier offer four seasons of interest -- small white flowers (occasionally pinkish) in spring, edible berries in early summer, attractive foliage color in fall and interesting …
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… The Tatarian or red-stemmed dogwood hales from Siberia and northern Korea. It is a suckering shrub that may form wide colonies and is valued in the garden for its stunning red stems in winter. In late May it will produce small yellowish-white flowers held in flattened clusters …
Type: Garden Guide Plant
… This weeping willow is a cross between Salix babylonica (weeping willow) and Salix pentandra (bay willow). It is a … (50’ high with similar spread) tree with a beautiful weeping habit. Its primary value is in its form rather than its flowers, fruit, or fall color. It can grow in full sun in moist, fertile soil. Members of the genus Salix are commonly known as willows. …
Type: Garden Guide Plant
