… has green foliage with silver undersides instead of artemisia's usual silvery green, grows to heights of 4 to 6 feet. Use it in the back of a sunny perennial bed. Wonderful, creamy white flowers appear in … can persist until fall. It makes a bold statement in the garden. Native to western China, it is one of the tallest species of artemisia. Unlike its cousins, it is grown for its showy flowers …
Type: Garden Guide Plant
… When this plant bears pale pink flowers in the summer months it is often when we are happy to be outside. Maybe that's why it's called Happy Face® Pink Paradise potentilla? This potentilla grows two to three feet tall and wide and is a long-flowering small rounded shrub bearing pale pink …
Type: Garden Guide Plant
… an upside down bunch of grapes, hence the name Grape Hyacinth. A single bulb may produce up to 3 scapes and a single scape will have more than 20 flowers. Plant it in full sun to part shade. It is resistant to deer and is hardy in zones 4 – 8. 'Valerie Finnis' is a cultivar, the species …
Type: Garden Guide Plant
… Golden rain tree grows 30 to 40 feet' tall and has a rounded habit. Its foliage creates a tropical effect, with large compound leaves that grow 18 inches long and have deeply cut leaflets. It is an excellent specimen plant. Yellow flowers with narrow petals, similar to forsythia blooms, are produced in 12-inch to 15-inch panicles in July. The flowers are …
Type: Garden Guide Plant
… am I doing wrong? Can you give me some growing tips? A: There are several important factors to keep in mind when gardening in containers. Using an appropriate container is the first thing to be considered. Fancy containers without drainage holes can be tempting but should be avoided …
Type: Plant Info
… 'Mayfield' is a larger, strongly columnar, form selected in Ohio around the 1940's. It is a male clone, which will not produce the distinctive smelly fruit, and will mature to tall 15 foot by 4 foot narrow tree in 10 years. Good for planting in rows or as an accent. The … this tree coexisted with the dinosaurs. Ginkgo is sometimes called the maidenhair tree due to its beautiful fan shaped leaves that resemble a maidenhair fern frond. It is one of the most …
Type: Garden Guide Plant
… oils that are extracted are useful for culinary and medicinal purposes. The lemon myrtle is native to the rainforests of Queensland in north-eastern Australia where the Australian indigenous … shown their antimicrobial and insect repellent properties. Although the lemon myrtle can grow to over fifty feet in optimal situations, in commercial situations it rarely exceeds fifteen …
Type: Garden Guide Plant
… that are not the same as the weedy honeysuckles in the genus Lonicera, but they are related to weigelas. They can be recognized the opposite, toothed leaves along slender twigs and clusters … of tubular yellow flowers with long stamens and pistils protruding from the flowers. The fruit is a dry capsule with long filaments. Diervilla sessilifolia , native to the Southeast, named for the very short petioles on the leaves, is also distinguished by four …
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 garden. Outdoors in warmer climates it is a large shrub or small tree reaching 12 feet high, … take full sun or light shade, and are drought-tolerant. The species name "cotinifolius" refers to Cotinus , the genus for our native smoke bush, which it resembles from a distance. This is …
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… Galaxy Alumroot is an amazing variegated red hybrid Heuchera with large leaves patented by Terra Nova Nurseries in 2014. It is a smaller plant, maturing to a mound 9 inches tall and 12 inches wide. White flowers on dark stems appear in late spring to mid-summer, increasing the height only to 14 inches. The leaves are very large and are …
Type: Garden Guide Plant
