… 'Brandywine Sunset' , with large soft yellow flowers with a pink blush, belongs to a group of hardy, single-flowered chrysanthemums sometimes called Korean mums. In the Midwest, this is an excellent selection if you want a hardy, long-blooming mum that will finish the bloom season in …
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… flowers throughout summer and into early fall are rather uniquely produced on this cultivar with disease resistant foliage. The parental source for yellow flowered roses is unfortunately … very disease prone so to find disease resistance is a boon for gardeners everywhere. Excellent in the garden and the long sturdy stems encourage gardeners to cut them for indoor …
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… Long arching stems with light green 'leaves' (cladophylls) of the Sprengeri asparagus make an excellent hanging …
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… shade, but will not grow in full shade. Established plants have respectable drought tolerance. Excellent winter hardiness, with best performance occurring in cool northern summer climates. Will reseed in the garden in …
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… which cause the leaves to fall off of the tree before the end of the summer. What is wrong with my tree and what can I do about it? A. Crabapple trees can be affected by many different … a sample of your declining tree that is approximately 12 inches in length to Plant Information Service for an accurate diagnosis and proper recommended treatments. …
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… discoveries. 2024 was no exception. Case in point: blueberries. They’re blue, right? Not so fast. Blueberries have dark red pigments in their skin to match their reddish pulp. Researchers … Shake, rattle—and grow? The idea that music can help plants grow has been studied for decades, with classical music usually winning. Spotify begs to differ. The music streaming service released its Hardcore Gardening Playlist for Plants in May, inspired by research that …
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Presented by the Illinois Orchid Society, this show will feature artistically arranged table top displays from the rarest of species to cultivated hybrids. Individual orchids in 128 classes will vie for red, white, and blue ribbons. Twenty-five entries will receive “best of class” green ribbons, and the best-appointed plant in the show will receive the Chicago Horticultural Society Award from …
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… Enormous, dark-green leaves with purple undersides and purple stems make this plant a beautiful textural addition to the … when it is not blooming. However, in late summer, tall, sturdy stems arise from the foliage with huge clusters of buds that open into groups of golden-orange daisy-like flowers. With its dramatic flower spikes, bigleaf goldenray Desdemona makes a bold accent, is an excellent pond-side plant, and is a bold, textural plant for shade. …
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… 'Flore Pleno'), a member of the Apocynaceae (dogbane) family, is a showy tropical shrub with extremely fragrant, nocturnal, double-white 1.5-inch flowers with crimped or wavy corollas. Its glossy 6- by 2-inch leaves are elliptic and wavy margined, … an attractive horizontal aspect. The species name, divaricata , means "at an obtuse angle." A fast and easy grower, it reaches a height of 6 feet and a width of 5 to 8 feet. Native to parts …
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… appearance of blooming twice. During winter, the bark of seven-son flower is also attractive, with long strips of brownish gray peeling away to reveal a bleached, sandy, smooth stem. Multiple stemmed and fast-growing, this plant can be trained to a single-stemmed small tree. Native to China, … Seven-son flower can reach as much as 20 feet in height. It has a loose, open habit, along with a handsome, strongly three-veined leaf. Use it in a shrub border as a background plant. This …
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