… Use royal azalea as a specimen plant or in the shrub border. This is one of the best deciduous azaleas for the Midwest due to its tolerance of higher pH soils. The … turning yellow, orange and crimson in fall. Native to Korea and Manchuria, the royal azalea is a rounded deciduous shrub that grows 6' to 8' tall and 6' to 8' in width with upright … azaleas in spring. Archived Copy: This content was captured before February 2022, and is no longer being updated. …
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… nice mulch of composted leaves in fall to take it through the winter. In the Chicago region it is insect and disease free. During very hot periods, particularly when the humidity is low, the leaves will temporarily wilt but will bounce back once temperatures cool. Archived Copy: This content was captured before February 2022, and is no longer being updated. …
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… Little Joe Pye weed is a cultivar of a native plant of the eastern parts of North America. As its name suggests, Baby … butterflies. This plant requires consistent soil moisture and will tolerate part shade. It is an excellent plant for a border and will naturalize freely and may need to be monitored. Archived Copy: This content was captured before February 2022, and is no longer being updated. …
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… are good for cut and dried flowers. Deadhead to prevent self-seeding. Small globe thistle is an excellent, drought-tolerant, back-of-the-border anchor plant; it is also a favorite of bees and butterflies. Bee-ware of the prickly foliage. Archived Copy: This content was captured before February 2022, and is no longer being updated. …
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… Lady Elsie May™ shrub rose ( Rosa 'ANGelsie') is a 2005 All America Rose Selection (AARS) winner, both for its generous bloom habit and its … location, and a little fertilizer to kick off the season. One other note on siting...this rose is quite thorny, so you may want to keep it away from children's play areas. Archived Copy: This content was captured before February 2022, and is no longer being updated. …
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… Country Dancer Buck shrub rose ( Rosa 'Country Dancer') is another of the very hardy, repeat-flowering roses hybridized in Iowa by Griffith Buck, Ph.D. … This cultivar tops out at 3 to 4 feet in height; sports dark green, leathery leaves; and is covered with large rose hips from late fall through winter. This cultivar became commercially … available in 1973. Archived Copy: This content was captured before February 2022, and is no longer being updated. …
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… the Royal Horticultural Society in 1914 and an Award of Garden Merit in 1925. Rosa hugonis is a tough, reliably hardy and extremely thorny shrub rose to 6' in the Chicago region, and is among the first of the shrub roses to bloom each year. Archived Copy: This content was captured before February 2022, and is no longer being updated. …
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… the spikes of this cultivar are taller and more of deep purple with red-black bracts. It is named after a city in Germany and is also sold as the cultivar 'Vesuvius'. Archived Copy: This content was captured before February 2022, and is no longer being updated. …
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… This is an easy-to-grow houseplant that tolerates a wide range of cultural and environmental … rosette. Wider than normal clay pots are often used to make sure this tall and narrow plant is stable and does not topple over. Indoor plants may be taken to shady outside locations in summer. Archived Copy: This content was captured before February 2022, and is no longer being updated. …
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… Side-flowering aster is woodland native found in much of Eastern and Central North America. It can reach a height of 3 … stems. It prefers partial shade with moist, well-drained soil. Unlike other asters, this one is not drought tolerant. Archived Copy: This content was captured before February 2022, and is no longer being updated. …
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