… the leaves appear, the tree is covered with masses of violet-pink flowers that spring straight from the bare trunks and which provide early season sustenance to hummingbirds and a range of …
Type: Garden Guide Plant
… flowers are continuously produced during warm summer weather on this nonhardy, evergreen shrub from Central America. Winter hardy in USDA zones 7 and warmer, it is used as an annual in …
Type: Garden Guide Plant
… large cupped yellow flowers with numerous stamens in the center. The number of petals varies, from five to nine; there are even double-flowered forms. The round, slightly scalloped leaves are …
Type: Garden Guide Plant
… Trumpetcreeper is an aggressive plant that needs a sturdy support structure. It will sucker from underground runners and self seed in your garden and your neighbor’s. Well known garden …
Type: Garden Guide Plant
… Red Velvet canna lives up to those standards. It can reach 3 feet tall, produces red flowers from summer through fall, and has burgundy lance-shaped leaves resembling those of a banana …
Type: Garden Guide Plant
… and South America and in the Caribbean. They bloom once at maturity, which can be anywhere from 5 to 40 years. Although most plants die after flowering and are not frost hardy, the …
Type: Garden Guide Plant
… It has tiny, glossy ovate leaves growing along stiff stems. It has pink and white blooms from April through June. Attractive red berries produced in the summer are a food source for …
Type: Garden Guide Plant
… Deep bell-shaped pink flowers in large clusters are produced from late April into May atop 10-inch red flower stalks. The foliage is attractive as well, with …
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… Charming' has magenta purple flowers that sparkle like jewels over its minty green foliage from late summer through early fall until a secondary bloom extends the show later into the fall. …
Type: Garden Guide Plant
… to promote plant cultivars that perform well in northern Illinois. This variety was selected from the collection at the Chicago Botanic Garden. …
Type: Garden Guide Plant
