… large mound. It produces fragrant, night-blooming white flowers, and has been extensively used in hybridizing. 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
… lavender flowers. Sweet Susan can tolerate more sun than other dark-leaved cultivars; be sure to provide constant moisture if sited in a sunnier location. 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
… Join us for a seated, slow-paced birding experience. Rather than walking around the Garden in search of birds, you will observe and identify the birds surrounding or passing by the … all levels of experience are welcome. Seating is available at the Cove, but you are welcome to bring your own chair. Binoculars and field guides are recommended but not required. Dress for …
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… features 3-inch-wide "combs" or crested flowers on annual plants 18 inches tall. Delights in the garden or cut and dried for winter arrangements, celosias are one of the mainstays of … is consistently below 30 percent, as in the desert Southwest). Wild celosias are native to the tropics and are noted for having a number of duplicate, triplicate, quadruplicate — up to …
Type: Garden Guide Plant
… As Senior Manager of Seed Projects and Partnerships, I’m working to build connections and resources to expand the supply of native seeds for ecological restoration. Collaborating with partners, we are … of Success program, led by Bureau of Land Management, which provides national coordination in seed collection for conservation and restoration. Regionally, we are working to build a new …
Type: Staff bio
… If not done in late March, there is still time to sow seeds indoors for warm-season vegetables like tomato … 40 to 50 degrees. When in doubt, wait until mid-May before placing houseplants permanently in the garden. If orchids have finished flowering, begin to fertilize regularly with a very dilute …
Type: Plant Info
… Louisa crabapple is a weeping form that is well suited to treatment as a single specimen. Rose buds open to pink flowers that are followed by yellow … that persist into winter. 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
… This elegant fall-blooming monkshood brings stately form and rich blue color to the garden from September well into October, when so many other plants start to die back. In fact, it's the last of the aconites to bloom. There's a bonus for gardeners...those 4 - 5' …
Type: Garden Guide Plant
… foremost for deep burgundy color of its foliage. Then, come mid-summer, that foliage becomes the dramatic backdrop for its graceful spires of white flowers. Whether in a woodland setting or at the back of shady border, they provide a strong vertical accent, and … of tightly packed flowers, often followed by conspicuous berries. NOTE: Berries are poisonous to people and rabbits; harmless to birds and butterflies. …
Type: Garden Guide Plant
… Hardy kiwi vine 'Geneva' was found, or maybe we should say rediscovered, in the Dr. Slate collection near the Cornell Experimental Station. 'Geneva' is female, and that's important if you want to grow it for the fruit as well as the flowers, because you'll need a male vine for pollination. …
Type: Garden Guide Plant
