… Clematis alpina is a woody vine that uses twining leaf stalks to wind around whatever support it can find. The bell-shaped, nodding flowers bloom on old wood, and it needs little pruning beyond the removal of weak or dead stems at the beginning of the … it's happy in full sun or part shade with moderate watering, as long as it has good drainage and the soil around the roots is protected from the heat of the sun. …
Type: Garden Guide Plant
… It grows to a height of 2' to 3' tall, has a rounded habit and forms a dense mound at maturity. It is used in the home landscape. Small white flowers, which are actually stamens, are borne at the … color ranging from yellow to orange to scarlet. Dwarf forthergilla is a relatively unknown and underutilized small shrub. Unusual early-flowering small shrub. …
Type: Garden Guide Plant
… inner whorl of petals above relatively wide glossy green leaves. Like other snowdrops, this is an ideal candidate for naturalizing underneath the canopy of large deciduous trees like oaks and maples where it completes its life cycle before they leaf out in spring. An extract of the … to treat Alzheimer's Disease. Other compounds are toxic, the reason while chipmunks, squirrels and deer avoid these bulbs. …
Type: Garden Guide Plant
… 4 feet wide) that blooms with fine-petaled rose-pink flowers from late summer into fall. It is tolerant of wet conditions and is mildew resistant. Pinch back until 4th of July. This will produce denser and more compact plants. It can be divided every 2-3 years in spring. It prefers full sun in …
Type: Garden Guide Plant
… flowers from late summer into fall. It was named after the wife of garden writer Alan Lacy. It is tolerant of wet conditions and is mildew resistant. Pinch back until 4th of July. This will produce denser and more compact plants. It can be divided every 2-3 years in spring. It prefers full sun in …
Type: Garden Guide Plant
… plants produce red, fleshy, single-seeded fruit instead of cones (these are poisonous). This is a cross between Japanese yews ( T. cuspidata) ; and English yews ( T. baccata ). It prefers average, medium moist, well-drained soil in full sun … tolerate a wide range of soils as long as drainage is good. It can also tolerate full shade and considerable pruning …
Type: Garden Guide Plant
… Brown-eyed Susan is one of 5 species of Rudbeckia native to Illinois. It is very hardy and somewhat … has three-lobed leaves. The flowers look like the familiar black-eyed Susan with yellow rays and brown disks, but the rays are much shorter. It can take full or partial shade. It has the …
Type: Garden Guide Plant
… Spring is often subtle in its arrival. You will learn the best camera and lens settings to use when … season. Learn to recognize which perspectives will best highlight the small-scale plant buds and shoots we discover throughout the Garden. Class is limited to DSLR or mirrorless cameras. …
Type: Item Detail
… Seeing autumn squill in bloom in early September is always a surprise, because all of its cousins bloom in the spring. Numerous spikes of starry … rosy to lavender flowers densely cover spikes to 10 inches in height. The leaves are narrow and strap-like. Although it is native to North Africa, these bulbs have proven quite hardy in the Chicago area. We have patches of it displayed in the Graham Bulb Garden and Landscape Garden. Honeybees swarm to this late bloomer. …
Type: Garden Guide Plant
… To every perennial there is a season — often fleeting. Remember the peonies? Gone in one glorious week. Yet some … prolongs a plant's flowering. Cut some perennials back hard after their first flush of bloom, and they'll come back with a whole new burst of flowers later in the summer. "Deadheading" is the … turning into seeds. Once that plant has created seeds, it figures its reproductive job is done and it can stop flowering. If you remove the bloom, many plants will go back to work and try …
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