… Trees or shrubs can be artfully pruned into fanciful figures or geometric shapes. Most gardens in the Midwest favor the geometric look in training plants. Consider the number of precisely pruned yew and boxwood shrubs — in globes, flat rectangles, cones, or pyramids. Sunny gardens might feature walls of sheared …
Type: Plant Info
… Foliage In any garden, foliage color is an important element. Flowers come and go, but leaves stay the season. Foliage is especially important in shady gardens, where flowers are usually more subtle and less showy. In many cases, leaves, with their texture, shape, size and color, contribute more to a shade …
Type: Plant Info
… Description: This state-threatened species is often heard, but less often seen, in shrubby areas or in the McDonald Woods foraging for caterpillars. …
Type: Birding
… This perennial grows to a height of 3 feet in full sun and moderate moisture conditions. It belongs in a border and is resistant to deer. …
Type: Garden Guide Plant
… This bulb needs full sun and moderate moisture conditions. It has pink and purple blooms in March and April. It belongs in a border. …
Type: Garden Guide Plant
… across. Native to east Africa and Madagascar, the genus is a highly sought-after ornamental in USDA Zones 9 and warmer. The genus name celebrates the French physician, botanist, and … Joseph Dombey. Under the auspices of the French crown, he undertook plant explorations in South America in the eighteenth century. The British seized Dombey's first shipment of specimens, including …
Type: Garden Guide Plant
… heighten your containers and garden with color, texture, and surprise? We love featuring mums in our fall displays at the Garden, but we also aim for variety and surprise. Here, Tim Pollak, … Commonly known as cockscomb because of its resemblance to a rooster’s comb, celosia comes in brightly colored red, pink, orange, or yellow blossoms that boast a velvety, wavy texture. … peppers are a favorite of mine, too,” says Pollak. “They’re a different kind of plant to see in a pot on a porch, and the fruit has fiery red, yellow, and orange color. When it gets down to …
Type: Blog
… Fall color is upon us, in all its heartbreakingly beautiful glory. All the key factors need to be in place for spectacular hues to emerge: abundant summer moisture, sunny fall days, and cool but … nighttime temperatures. Brilliant yellows and golds grab our attention, but let's go deeper in tone, to the often-overlooked drama of fall's purple foliage. There's more to fall color …
Type: Plant Info
… can thrive here with some attention to their culture and selection. They give continuous bloom in your garden from late May into early September; range in height from a diminutive 4 inches to a towering 8 feet; produce flowers from 1 inch across to as large as a dinner plate; dazzle in colors of white, pink, yellow, orange, and red to violet, and with all sorts of freckles, …
Type: Plant Info
… Zinnias originated as wildflowers in Mexico. They were also found growing a bit farther north in the western United States, and in parts of northern and western South America. As garden plants, zinnias have been enjoyed since …
Type: Plant Info
