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  • … Iris 'Takamagahara' is a soft pale lavender with strongly contrasting yellow signals and dark violet eyelashes. It … inches tall and blooms in mid season. The name Takamagahara means “Heaven of the Legend”. This is a pseudata iris, a cross between a Japanese iris ( Iris ensata ) and Iris pseudacorusa . These …
    Type: Garden Guide Plant
  • … Iris bucharcai has creamy yellow flowers with darker yellow falls. It is commonly known as Bukkhara iris or corn leaf iris. The stems stand 14 to 16 inches high and have up to 6 buds each. It is native to grassy slopes of northeastern Afghanistan, Tadjikistan, and Uzbeckistan. This iris …
    Type: Garden Guide Plant
  • … Narcissus ‘Sherborne’ is in Division 4. It blooms in mid spring with 4 inch wide double flowers. The petals are a … not be eaten by deer or rabbits. The name Narcissus comes from the Greek word for narcotic and is tied to the myth of a young man known as Narcissus who fell in love with his own reflection. …
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  • … Narcissus ‘Sir Winston Churchill’ is in Division 4. It blooms late in the season with an average of 4 strongly scented flowers per … not be eaten by deer or rabbits. The name Narcissus comes from the Greek word for narcotic and is tied to the myth of a young man known as Narcissus who fell in love with his own reflection. …
    Type: Garden Guide Plant
  • … spring to early summer. Not reliably winter hardy in Chicago gardens, this cool season annual is usually sold as a potted plant early in spring for planting outdoors. As temperatures warm, … arrives. Gardeners may also purchase dormant bulbs that should be planted as soon as the soil is warm enough to work in early spring. Deer and rabbits find all plant parts unpalatable. …
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  • … Polly Spout green dragon ( Pinellia tripartita 'Polly Spout') is a hardy member of the Aroid (philodendron) family, which produces spikes of green flowers in late summer. This cultivar is named for the hometown of We-Du Nursery in South Carolina, where this sterile cultivar was …
    Type: Garden Guide Plant
  • … Jacob's ladder is a biblical name for a heavenly plant. It grows up to 2' in height with attractive foliage, … 27 leaflets per leaf. Drooping dainty blue flowers hover over the plant in early summer. This is a clump-forming perennial, mainly hairless but slightly hairy near the flower. The stems are …
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  • … Buccaneer palm is native to seacoast areas throughout the Caribbean, from Florida and Mexico down to Central … fast-draining soil, erratic watering, and windy exposed locations. All it really requires is sun, and even there it'll compromise and accept some shade. …
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  • … pouch, and end up pollinating the flower as they maneuver to escape. The genus Phragmipedium is native to tropical America. This cultivar is a hybrid utilizing Phragmipedium besseae , a species discovered in Peru in 1981 by Elizabeth …
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  • … large fragrant double white flowers in May to June and reblooms in the late summer to fall. It is a medium-sized deciduous shrub, growing to about six feet in height and about five feet in width with gently arching branches. While this shrub is adaptable to a range of conditions, it prefers sunny locations and rich,consistently moist …
    Type: Garden Guide Plant