… Waterfall Garden Water has been used in garden design for centuries. Both its sound and its motion provide a lively contrast to the serenity of garden landscapes, as the Waterfall Garden dramatically demonstrates at the Chicago Botanic Garden. The Waterfall … Water has been used in garden design for centuries. Both its sound and its motion provide a lively contrast to the serenity of garden landscapes, as the Waterfall Garden dramatically demonstrates at the …
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… MISS SUSIE™ Korean lilac is a pink flowering cultivar developed by the Klehm nursery. Its fragrant flowers appear on this compact shrub in late May or early June. Fall foliage color is burgundy. Members of the genus Syringa , commonly known as lilacs, are shrubs or small trees prized for their showy and fragrant blooms in late spring. The individual flowers are tubular in form …
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… Cardinal white willow is known for the deep red color of its new growth stems. For that reason, its is most often coppiced (cut to the ground) in late winter to promote new growth. This variety is a female clone. Members of the genus Salix are commonly known as willows. These …
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… Have you ever wondered how bees, butterflies, and other pollinators traverse the flowers at the Garden? … to navigate between petals and pistils to find pollen? Take a walk around the Garden looking for and learning more about these magnificent creatures. Dress for the weather. Carly Zoladz, …
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… MY MONET® is a prize-winner, and its bright pink spring bloom is just one of the reasons. It's the first … the growing season. Bees, butterflies, and hummingbirds love Weigela , and so do gardeners. For a plant that gives you so much to look at, they're very easy to care for. No particular … sun. Prune after spring bloom...fall pruning puts next year's flowers at risk. Archived Copy: This content was captured before February 2022, and is no longer being updated. …
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… This lovely native plant has beautiful, lacy, light-green leaves that form a loose basal rosette. … plant in spring; flowers continue sporadically through the summer. This self-sowing columbine is an outstanding understory woodland wildflower for late spring color, where it brings unique color to the native garden. Classified into the …
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… The fernleaf beech is so named because its cut leaves are reminiscent of the fronds of a fern. A wide range of … of the European beech have been developed, many of which are eye-catching show stoppers for their shape (weeping, columnar or rounded) or foliage color (green, variegated, purple or … of a wide range of soils, the genus prefers consistent and moderate moisture. Archived Copy: This content was captured before February 2022, and is no longer being updated. …
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… Reddish-pink buds open to white flowers on Donald Wyman crabapple. The fruit is glossy red and persistent into winter. This consistent performer and disease-resistant cultivar is extensively planted at the Chicago … Crabapples are small flowering trees that provide a showy display in the spring landscape for one to two weeks. In addition to the eye-catching buds and flowers, their foliage, habit, and …
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… The dwarf Star of Bethlehem is a low growing but prolific spring-flowering bulb that originates from the Caucasus area of … star-shaped white flowers are borne on flower spikes about six inches high. Plant in groups for maximum effect. The smaller stature of this plant lends itself to interplanting among taller bulbs or along edges. This bulb is not …
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… This upright, spreading multi-stemmed shrub grows 10 to 15 feet tall with a spread equal to its height. It is lovely for the home landscape border. The outstanding feature of common smokebush is its late-summer …
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