… Baltimore Oriole daylily has lovely velvety red blooms. The triangular to star shaped flowers are large, measuring 6” in diameter. It blooms in mid to late season. It is attractive to butterflies but not attractive to rabbits. Although each flower lasts only one …
Type: Garden Guide Plant
… This shrub, native to Eurasia, grows to height of about six feet in full sun to partial shade and dry to moist soil conditions. In May … with longer flower stalks. These are followed by juicy red berries, inedible to humans. It is deciduous, but may be semi-evergreen in mild winters. This plant has few insect and disease …
Type: Garden Guide Plant
… Native to the Mediterranean, bay laurel is a small, pyramidal, aromatic, evergreen tree or large shrub that grows to as much as 60 feet tall, but is usually seen much smaller (10 to 30 feet tall). For garden …
Type: Garden Guide Plant
… Q. Are there advantages to routinely spraying my trees with oils? A. Routine spraying of any product on healthy trees … been under attack in the past from scale, mites or aphids, then an application of dormant oil is warranted. Dormant oil may be applied when the temperature is at least 40 degrees and there is … bud yet, and the weather should be calm with little wind. There are a few trees sensitive to dormant oil that should not be treated: maple, hickory, redbud, blue spruce, black walnut, …
Type: Plant Info
… Karl Foerster’s feather reed grass is one of the most popular ornamental grasses because of its versatility and attractiveness in all seasons. The clumps grow to about 4 feet high and 3 feet wide, but the vertical flower spikes can grow to 6 feet high. The reddish-brown flowers appear in early summer and provide visual interest year …
Type: Garden Guide Plant
… Narcissus ‘Kokopelli’ is in Division 7. This is a dwarf cultivar that stands only 5 – 8 inches high. It blooms in mid to late spring with 2 – 4 flowers on each stem. The flowers are 1 ½ inch wide with broad petals … The cup is bowl shaped with a straight mouth. It open with green at the base, but matures to a darker shade of yellow than the petals. The bulbs are toxic and will not be eaten by deer or …
Type: Garden Guide Plant
… Narcissus ‘Petit Four’ is in Division 4. It blooms in mid spring with 4½ inch flowers in which only the cup is doubled. … with a small point on the tip. The corona is cup shaped, opening light yellow and maturing to a light yellowish pink with a touch of light yellow at the rim. The cup encloses 6 segments of … than the corona and protrudes outward from the cup, tapering into a tubular shape and fading to a yellowish white. The bulbs are toxic and will not be eaten by deer or rabbits. The name …
Type: Garden Guide Plant
… shelter for a range of insects, small mammals and birds, even bison. Totem Pole switch grass is an upright grass of about six feet in height and about two to three feet in width. Foliage is a bluish-green which develops golden seeds heads in the fall. … grasses, Totem Pole is extremely versatile and can cope with a range of soil types from sandy to clay and shade conditions although it prefers full sun. Because of its versatility it can be …
Type: Garden Guide Plant
… Shavalski’s goldenray is a clumping perennial that grows to a maximum height of 6 feet. It requires partial to full shade with medium to wet moisture conditions. From July to August it produces showy …
Type: Garden Guide Plant
… Tansy Chrysanthemum ( Tanacetum macrophyllum ) is an upright herbaceous perennial that grows to a maximum height of 3 feet. It is native to southern Europe and southwestern Asia. The plant thrives in dry to moderate moisture …
Type: Garden Guide Plant
