… This plant is a shrub rose with a trailing habit and glossy dark green leaves. It often blooms out of season and is useful as a pillar rose. The flowers are cupped, fully double, magenta, and scented. It blooms in early summer and again in fall. As a shrub, it grows to 4 feet high, …
Type: Garden Guide Plant
… of flowers just before frost. This is a sport of the popular shrub polyantha rose 'The Fairy' and shares its vigor and disease resistance.The bright glossy green foliage is scaled with the flower size. Plant this rose in full sun and in fertile soils, and water during dry spells. Archived Copy: This content was captured …
Type: Garden Guide Plant
… gold that age to blue lavender. The flowers have a fragrance that combines notes of cloves and tea rose. It grows up to 4 feet high with full sun and moderate moisture, and from mid-June through mid-October its blooms attract birds and butterflies. Outta the Blue …
Type: Garden Guide Plant
… Clusters of white flowers are blushed lavender at the tips of the stems, featuring deep purple and silver stems and leaves. This 'nativar'—a cultivar of a native species—is perfectly at home in our Chicago area soils and climate. Simply water enough to get the plants established in a sunny location. They attract …
Type: Garden Guide Plant
… Phlox paniculata ‘Dresden China’ stands 28 inches high and blooms in mid to late summer with fragrant pale pink flowers that have darker eyes. The flowers are 1½ inches in diameter and occur in clusters. The plant is attractive to hummingbirds and butterflies and is hardy to zone 4. The genus name is from the Greek word phlox meaning flame …
Type: Garden Guide Plant
… Attracting birds to the winter garden can be a fun-filled and action-packed spectator sport. Supplying our feathered friends with birdseed and one or two well-placed feeders keeps them energized and you entertained. Watching the antics of some of the most common feeder birds—chickadees, …
Type: Plant Info
… The most common tree in the Chicago area is from Europe—and that’s bad news for our native plants and animals. Introduced to the United States in the early 1900s as an ornamental plant and privacy hedge, common buckthorn ( Rhamnus cathartica ) now accounts for 36 percent of all …
Type: Blog
… not Puritanism. Long before European Christians incorporated swags, garlands, wreaths, and Christmas trees into their religious holiday, Egyptians were decorating with palm fronds, and early Romans were raucously celebrating Saturnalia with drink, gambling, general craziness, and evergreens. The association of the shortest day of the year (winter solstice) with a living …
Type: Plant Info
… are members of the insect order called Lepidoptera . There are about 2,000 types of moths and butterflies in Illinois. Of these, about 150 species are butterflies and 1,850 species are moths. Our local butterflies range from the tiny Eastern-tailed blue and gray hairstreak to the giant swallowtail. Butterflies and their offspring (eggs, …
Type: Plant Info
… amount of daylight coming through the windows. On March 1, daylight has grown by two hours and 10 minutes since the Winter Solstice on December 21. While plants are pushing out new growth, … fertilizing or a close look for insect pests. Here are some common conditions: Healthy and wilted cyclamen Cyclamen with dry soil Wilting When leaves and flowers droop, it may signal not enough water or too much water. One way to check is to pop …
Type: Plant Info
