… This low-growing, creeping evergreen shrub reaches about 6 inches in height with full sun. It can grow in a number of different soil conditions but cannot tolerate wet soils. It has bluish-green foliage that may become tinged with purple in the winter. It is non-flowering, but it occasionally produces berry-like seed cones. Resistant …
Type: Garden Guide Plant
… Dense white spikes veined in green provide continuous landscape color with the pale pink flowers appearing sporadically to add to the appeal. This non-hardy shrub can get large in warmer climates, but in the Chicago area, that is unlikely. It attracts pollinators to the garden and is relatively …
Type: Garden Guide Plant
… possumhaw hollies are deciduous, allowing the bright red berries on this cultivar to stand out in the winter landscape (until the cedar wax wings migrate through). Plant in full sun to partial shade in wet to dry, well-drained to poorly drained soils with a male clone nearby to ensure …
Type: Garden Guide Plant
… Native to the United States, this coneflower is an upright clump-forming perennial that grows in both moist and dry soils to 3 feet tall, often forming large colonies in the wild. It features orange or yellow daisy-like flowers and blooms profusely from July through October, and is well-suited for cutting. Plant in the border, prairie, or cottage garden where it will attract birds and butterflies. …
Type: Garden Guide Plant
… yedoense var. poukhanense ) is a low-growing azalea covered with pink-mauve flowers in spring and orange to red fall color later in the season. Like other plants native to Korea, this species is winter hardy in many parts of the Upper Midwest, including the Chicago region. The cultivar is a hybrid of the …
Type: Garden Guide Plant
… Salvia × sylvestris 'Blauhügel' is a cultivar developed in Germany and sold in the United States under the translated name of blue hills sage. Six-inch-long spikes of … mounded form of the plant. Deadheading will be rewarded with a second flush of flowers later in the summer. This cultivar is deer and rabbit resistant but attractive to butterflies and …
Type: Garden Guide Plant
… Scilla sardensis is a clump-forming bulb producing showy blue flowers with little to any white in the center of the flower. It flowers in late winter and early spring. It grows to a maximum height of 6 feet under full sun to partial … shade with moderate moisture conditions. The plant is used as a ground cover or as a specimen in a border. It is resistant to deer. …
Type: Garden Guide Plant
… Chinese Sedum is a mat-forming 3-inch succulent which turns a showy bronze and burgundy color in fall. Its trailing stems support round leaves that form rosettes at the tips. Star-shaped … to pale pink flowers appear from July through September. It can be grown as a ground cover in full sun to partial shade in well-drained soil and is perfect for a rock garden or a dry slope. …
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… At 2 feet in height, Vivid obedient plant ( Physostegia virginiana 'Vivid') is shorter than the straight species and produces lavender-pink flowers in vertical rows on spikes to 10 inches in height. This salt-tolerant cultivar attracts butterflies while resisting deer. Like other …
Type: Garden Guide Plant
… This dwarf growing mix of Iceland poppies features plants producing flowers in shades of red, orange, yellow, and white, and maturing at 18 inches in size. Plant these poppies in full sun after the danger of hard frosts has passed, and enjoy the flower display through …
Type: Garden Guide Plant
