… 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
… Given its size, great care should be taken when siting this tree. It requires full sun, but is tolerant of a wide range of soil types and conditions. It gets its name from the silvery undersides of its five lobed leaves. Fall color … wood and better branching that the species so it would be a better candidate for a windy site. …
Type: Garden Guide Plant
… Grown primarily for its attractive foliage, variegated sweet flag is a rush with grass-like leaves striped white and green, which emit a sweet scent when bruised. Insignificant tiny spikes of yellow-green … forms a tuft about one square foot in size, spreading by rhizomes. It is a semi-evergreen and marginal aquatic plant, thriving in wet soil in full sun or partial shade such as the edge of …
Type: Garden Guide Plant
… Rakkyo, or Chinese chive, is an uncommon type of onion found in China and Japan. The small narrow bulbs are usually sold … lavender flowers before disappearing entirely until the next spring. It rarely produces seeds and is propagated by division. …
Type: Garden Guide Plant
… grows upright to 4 inches tall with bluish-green leaves decorated with rough white bumps and spots. The edges of the leaves are spiked with light green teeth. Hardy outdoors in USDA Zones 9 to 11, this aloe is a low-maintenance, drought- , heat- , and clay-tolerant evergreen succulent that prefers full sun or dappled shade. Grown primarily for …
Type: Garden Guide Plant
… 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
