… Red Barron crabapple has a distinct upright, narrow habit. Its red buds open to dark pink flowers that are followed by shiny dark red fruit. Crabapples are small flowering trees that provide a showy display in the spring landscape for 1 to 2 weeks. In addition to the eye-catching buds and flowers, their …
Type: Garden Guide Plant
… Autumn Minaret daylily has showy, 5-inch yellow-orange flowers with a darker eye. It blooms mid to late season and may rebloom, giving it an extended bloom period. It is unusually tall for a … only one day, but there are multiple buds on each stalk and several stalks on each plant. The buds open in series, so a single plant may continue to bloom for 2 weeks or more. Typical of daylilies, it …
Type: Garden Guide Plant
… Q. How do I keep cut greenery fresh indoors for the holidays? A. Use a pair of clean, sharp cutters to prune off desired branches. Place the cut ends in water until you are ready to use them. You can crush the ends of woody stems so that the …
Type: Plant Info
… The Manchurian lilac is native to China. It bears large pale rosy lavender to white blooms that are fragrant. Members of the … 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 …
Type: Garden Guide Plant
… Q. Can you help me identify the very large moth that appears just for a day or two on the side of my house at this time of … are a quite distinctive dark reddish-brown, with silver lines and crescent shapes on their 5- to 6-inch wings. After mating and laying eggs, the females deposit eggs on future food sources … full size, then form cocoons on low shrubs and pupate over the winter, emerging as large moths in early summer. Although caterpillars in general are voracious eaters, the Cecropia larvae are …
Type: Plant Info
… 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 …
Type: Garden Guide Plant
… Plants brought indoors this fall might exhibit temporary “transplant shock” in their new environment due to changes in light and temperature. Sun-loving houseplants might suffer during cloudy winter … covering them. Water well and place pots in a refrigerator, cold frame, garage, or shed where the temperature remains between 35 and 40 degrees Fahrenheit. If storing in a refrigerator, cover …
Type: Plant Info
… When I was 8 years old, I traveled with my family to Przysietnica, Poland, to spend the summer with relatives. My grandparents’ farm was the home … away from the parent, and put out roots, producing a new clone of the mother plant. In this way, a single cultivar of strawberry can reproduce itself dozens of times and still be identical …
Type: Blog
… Dragon's Blood is an old reliable variety of sedum. We had this growing in the old Home Landscape Demonstration Garden, where the new greenhouses are now being built. This mat-forming perennial takes full sun to partial shade. It produces clusters of starry cherry-red blooms in July and August. The tiny …
Type: Garden Guide Plant
… Love Pat features blue-green, slug-resistant foliage forming a medium to large mound (14 inches tall by 16 inches wide) over time. It is a Tokudama variety of hosta, which blooms with white flowers in mid to late summer. 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
