… cold resistance from its mother, Alocasia odora . The leaves are a deep glossy green suffused with purple on top, and deep dark purple on the underside, both strongly marked with light green veins. Alocasias are jungle understory plants that originated in Asia and are …
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… form, having training branches only four to eight inches long. The leaves are a dull green, with white spots, and the leaves tend to remain clustered toward the branch apex. This is a … about a foot tall. The flowers are laxly arranged on the stem and are a bright coral pink with white tips. A cute little miniature aloe only kept alive through cultivation, and all …
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… the Garfield Park Conservatory - ergo the specific epithet. It is one of the birds nest type with large green upward spreading leaves creating an open space where leaf litter and other … but tend to bright shiny reds, purples or blues. Anthurium thrive in warm humid environments with bright filtered sunlight. Many are epiphytes and as a genus they typically don't tolerate …
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… of pink and white and attracts butterflies in July and August. 'Soulmate' is a selection with rosy pink flowers centered with a white staminal column. The leaves are narrow, lanceolate, and smaller than those of the …
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… has incredibly fragrant, bright reddish-purple to magenta-colored blooms borne on long canes with attractive gray-green foliage. Introduced by Michael Dirr from the University of Georgia … Buddleja blossoms from July to frost and grows quickly in moderately moist, well-drained soil with average fertility. Deadheading will help prolong the shrub's blooming season; cut the canes …
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… boxwood. This evergreen shrub grows into a perfect narrow pyramid to a height of 12 feet with full sun to partial shade and is not fussy about soils. This variety is very hardy, with minor bronzing during harsh winters. It may be visited by boxwood psyllid, a tiny insect …
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… and persist on the tree until the seeds have dropped. 'Silver Show' is a dwarf cultivar with short, curled needles which show off the white undersides of the needles. The cones are very … violet-blue and appearing even on young trees. Korean firs may not be easy to grow in areas with clay soil and they don't like excessive heat or air pollution. They require good, organic …
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… then fade to brown and fall to the ground. The cultivars of red maple are much more consistent with good fall color. Red maples are beautiful, but they do not tolerate dry clay soils, where … from the soil. Their native habitat is moist woods and riverbanks, where soil is moist with pH usually below 6. …
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… It has strong branches that form a pyramidal shape. The leaves of red maple have 3 to 5 lobes, with the lobes near the petiole smaller in size. Red maples flower in late March to early April, with clusters of tiny red flowers. Newly emerging leaves are red, but soon become green. Fall …
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… dark purple, almost black foliage. In late summer, bugbanes develop tall flower spires with heavily scented flowers that are repellent (or a bane) to bugs. In fact, in earlier times, … bugs. 'Hillside Black Beauty' is a shade-loving plant that forms a clump about 2-3 feet high with flower spikes reaching 3-4 feet high. It requires consistently moist soils in order to …
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