… 'The Netherlands' is actually a blend of three tulips assembled for the Garden by a wholesale bulb company in the … has large scarlet blooms with a short stature. The broad wavy leaves are edged in yellow. It is intermixed with a white variety and the last to bloom will be pink. Tulip blends are popular …
Type: Garden Guide Plant
… TRIUMPH™ elm is a Chicagoland Grows® selection. Chicagoland Grows® is a plant introduction partnership of the Chicago Botanic Garden, the Morton Arboretum and the …
Type: Garden Guide Plant
… Do you like blueberries? This is a blueberry bush, and if you're here in the spring you'll see the white flowers that turn into the blueberries in the summer months. Bluecrop blueberry is a self-pollinating blueberry that was bred to produce large berries and high yields. It …
Type: Garden Guide Plant
… Gemini™ is a patented hybrid tea rose released by Bear Creek Gardens, Inc. of Medford, Oregon, in 1999. … From May through October, it produces lightly fragrant salmon-pink and white blooms. It is a hybrid cross between the orange New Year™ and pink-and-white Anne Morrow …
Type: Garden Guide Plant
… Swamp rose ( Rosa palustris ) is one of many water-loving, water-absorbing plants selected for the Rainwater Glen. An Illinois … The large, red visible follow fragrant pink flowers that bloom in early summer. Swamp rose is used in home landscapes with full sun and moist, acidic soil, and room for colonies to form. …
Type: Garden Guide Plant
… This cultivar is resistant to unsightly leaf spot. …
Type: Garden Guide Plant
… are estimated to emerge around May 15 to 30 and stay active through June—but their emergence is weather-dependent; given the warm winter, we could be looking at emergence on the early side. … out. In a given area, most cicadas will emerge over only a two- or three-day period, which is an amazing sight. Once they’re out, they make a lot of noise, which at peak levels can be as … larger side, approximately 1 to 2 inches long. Another thing that differentiates the species is that annual cicadas have a two- to five-year life cycle, with some emerging each season. That …
Type: Blog
… within the parameters of that design, and after the initial design and build phases, pruning is the most important tool that will keep your garden spot-on with what you envisioned. Willows … of your toddler standing taller than the plant. Come back in ten years when the toddler is a kid and the plant is a real tree. Avoid the disappointment and frustration at the beginning … shedding this (plant’s version of a hangnail), and as it unevenly sloughs off over time, the site becomes an entry point for rot, disease, and pests. You don’t want that. And by …
Type: Plant Info
… fruit early? We have an old apple tree on our property that produces pocked, rotten apples. Is there way we can help the tree produce edible fruit? A. Some fruit trees will naturally thin … products or the less toxic, more environmentally friendly ones, adherence to a strict schedule is important. The first treatment, applied in early March, consists of a dormant oil sprayed thoroughly over the tree's trunk and branches. This petroleum-based product is applied before the tree begins active growth, but only if the temperature is 40 degrees with …
Type: Plant Info
… the new species Clivia gardenii in honor of the collector when it flowered in 1856. Clivia is a genus in the Amaryllidaceae family from South Africa that produces lustrous, chunky, green, … tubular flowers have yellowish inner trumpets tipped with green and exerted stamens; the fruit is a bright red, fleshy berry. Major Garden’s clivia can grow 2 feet tall and 20 inches wide and is usually found thriving in deep shade in forested areas, on steeply sloping cliffs, and …
Type: Garden Guide Plant
