… This perennial grows to a height of 4 feet with full sun and dry to moderate moisture conditions. It has blue-purple blooms that attract …
Type: Garden Guide Plant
… This low-growing evergreen ground cover needs moderate moisture conditions with full sun to partial shade to full shade. In late spring it produces white flowers. It is …
Type: Garden Guide Plant
… of the agave family is native to Texas and northern Mexico. It grows to a height of 16 feet with full sun and dry moisture conditions. In the spring it produces showy white flowers. …
Type: Garden Guide Plant
… This welcome season, with its bird song, fragrant blossoms, and gentle zephyrs, tempts us all to step outside and … we anticipate this season of new life and celebrate it (often long before it arrives) with flower and garden shows, pageants, and parades. In certain quarters, Mardi Gras and Carnival are synonymous with the advent of spring, as well as Easter, Passover, and other seasonal holidays. The gradual …
Type: Walks
… and Topiaries in Containers European gardens often made use of clay or stone pots planted with semitropical shrubs grown either as standards or as tightly pruned topiaries. A standard is a plant trained to a single trunk or stem with a distinct shape created by its leaves and flowers at the top of the trunk. Standards lend a … green surface 12 months of the year. This formal element is used to advantage when contrasted with beds of bright flowers or foliage arranged in a geometric pattern. Knot Garden A form that …
Type: Plant Info
… After a cold, dreary winter, forsythia signals spring with a generous cascade of bright yellow flowers. Depending on the spring weather, they flower … plant breeders in New Zealand, and boasts colorful foliage. The leaves start out creamy yellow with a green edge and become green with white veins as the season progresses. You can find plants along the trail near parking lot …
Type: Plant Info
… grown indoors. The cultural requirements of the indoor varieties of jasmine are the same (with the exception of the cool-weather jasmine). They all need bright light with at least four hours of direct sun per day. In spring and summer, water regularly and fertilize every two weeks with a high phosphorus fertilizer to encourage good flower development. If possible, place the …
Type: Plant Info
… life, which includes wood ducks, double-crested cormorants, and snapping turtles, along with bullfrogs, American toads, and other members of their croaking chorus. Near the North Lake … vibrant yellow. This plant is marsh marigold (Caltha palustris) and should not be confused with the insidious invader lesser celandine (Ficaria verna) , a species that we are actively … you can easily see each individual young plant. You again might spot marsh marigold, along with another short plant with a lavender bloom—woodland phlox (Phlox divaricata) . It’s nice to …
Type: Blog
… garden features vertical stone slabs closely spaced, leaving deep, narrow channels filled with soil for planting. The Farwell Landscape Garden holds a great example filled with rock garden and alpine plants. Pollinators Interest continues to increase in the plight of … the Lawn Many homeowners are expected to downsize part of their lawn this year and replace it with small plantings to attract birds and butterflies. Mowing, weeding, spraying, and watering a …
Type: Plant Info
… We have heard tales of some titan arums in their natural habitats growing 10 to 12 feet tall with a bloom diameter of up to 5 feet, but more typically in cultivation, an arum reaches 6 to 8 feet in height before the spathe unfurls into a bloom, with a diameter close to 3 feet. While it looks like a 6- to 8-foot-tall flower, the titan arum's … spreads the scent though the forest into the canopy, towards pollinators. Q. What do you do with the pollen made by the male flowers? A. Roughly 12 hours after the female flowers have been …
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