… Rose Selection (AARS) winner, both for its generous bloom habit and its carefree nature. The coral-pink flowers keep coming all season long, and the waxy green foliage isiggihly … disease-resistant, making it appropriate for foundation or mass planting, as well as a place in the border. Give it a well-drained, sunny 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 …
Type: Garden Guide Plant
… tall, 48 inches wide) mound of blue green leaves. It can be useful as background foliage in shady areas. It blooms in early summer with pale lavender (almost white) flowers. Hostas are shade tolerant, easy to grow and long-lived. Although they produce flowers held high above the foliage on long stalks called scapes, they are grown primarily for their foliage and neat …
Type: Garden Guide Plant
… Purple-twig dogwood is notable for its dark purple-black stems in winter. This multi-stemmed shrub bears white flowers in spring followed by whitish blue fruit in summer. The foliage is dark green and turns a reddish-purple in the fall. Members of the genus Cornus , … -- be it flowers, fruit, foliage, and/or bark -- and their range of forms from small trees to suckering shrubs. The dominant display, however, varies among the species. Dogwoods are native …
Type: Garden Guide Plant
… Sibirica Tatarian dogwood is a multi-stemmed shrub known for its coral-red stems in winter and whitish blue fruit in summer, which follow clusters of small white flowers in spring. The medium green foliage turns reddish-purple in the fall. Members of the genus Cornus , commonly … -- be it flowers, fruit, foliage, and/or bark -- and their range of forms from small trees to suckering shrubs. The dominant display, however, varies among the species. Dogwoods are native …
Type: Garden Guide Plant
… Continue to plant deciduous trees and shrubs as weather permits. The alternate time for planting is next … until the ground has frozen completely. If rabbits, rodents, or deer have been a problem in past winters, take precautions with valuable woody plants now. To keep deer from rubbing …
Type: Plant Info
… The leaves of 'Remember Me' emerge bright yellow with dark green margins but the centers turn bright white by summer. This small to medium (15 inches tall, 20 inches wide) hosta is a sport of H . 'June'; the cultivar was … natural mutations or “sports” are also common; new introductions abound. Hosta cultivars range in size from several inches to several feet; it may take 3-8 years for hostas to reach their full …
Type: Garden Guide Plant
… The red banana is a showy plant originally from Ethiopia which has long green paddle-shaped … leaves with reddish undersides growing from a central stem. Maurelli is not prone to sucker nor does it bear edible fruits like true bananas. In warmer climates it is a perennial and can grow to a height of thirty or forty feet but in …
Type: Garden Guide Plant
… 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 and are borne in large panicles. While the common name of the plant has come to define a shade of pale purple, some species and hybrids have pink or white blossoms. Lilacs …
Type: Garden Guide Plant
… Peonies are popular garden plants, known for their stunning flowers, their cold hardiness and the huge variety of their colors, forms and habits. They are divided into two main groups: herbaceous, which die to the ground in the fall, and tree peonies, deciduous plants with woody stems which they retain throughout the …
Type: Garden Guide Plant
… Medium-sized, star-shaped flowers feature white petals, lightly blotched in dark purple with a swath of light cream along the mid-veins and a dark yellow nectar guide. Complex hybrids sometimes are challenging for home gardeners to grow—proof that not all hybrids are vigorous. Bright light, moderate to cool temperatures, …
Type: Garden Guide Plant
