… The crimson buds of MAY'S DELIGHT® Beeson crabapple open to pink flowers. The foliage is reddish-purple; excellent disease resistance is reported. The … cultivar is dark burgundy. Crabapples are small flowering trees that provide a showy display in the spring landscape for one to two weeks. In addition to the eye-catching buds and flowers, …
Type: Garden Guide Plant
… Jelly Burn Plant ( Bulbine frutescens ), a member of the lily family, is native to desert grasslands in South Africa. The name Bulbine comes from the Latin word "bulbus", meaning onion or bulb. This …
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… Ground Sulphur quickly forms a small (9-inch tall by 12-inch wide) dense mound of narrow gold to chartreuse leaves. It is a useful hosta as an edger or ground cover where a splash of bright color is desired. It has showy lavender flowers that appear in June, which can be used in floral arrangements. 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 …
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… This award-winning Weigela is an old-fashioned tried-and-true bush that may well have been in your grandmother's garden. In spring and summer,clusters of pink buds open to pale blush flowers, shown off against variegated green and white foliage. Foliage is red, orange, and purple in the fall. The plant is most useful as a specimen or in a screen or hedge. Bees, butterflies, and …
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… single blossoms of light yellow with pink shading and purple flares. Tree peonies often need to settle in for one to two years before producing blooms and, once established, will grow to mature size … five to eight years. ‘Golden Vanities’ grows to 4 feet tall. Plant in sun to part shade with the eyes no more than 2 inches below the soil surface and protect from strong winds and afternoon …
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… Chevron Chic Regenstein Fruit & Vegetable Garden Horticulturist: Riley Finnegan What’s behind the design: When I inherited the idea of chevron, I knew that it would fit perfectly into the … Garden. Linework has always been a part of this garden's annual planting design, since we need to harvest what we plant often multiple times a week during the summer. The chevron pattern … Serenita® ‘Pink’ Allium ampeloprasum ‘Blue Solaise’ If you were to decorate a room in your home in this pattern…which room would you choose and why? I would choose my dining room; …
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… KINDRED SPIRIT® hybrid oak is a cross between the European English oak and our native U.S. swamp white oak. It has a very narrow columnar habit and was selected for a high degree of resistance to powdery mildew, to which English oaks are susceptible in warm, humid climates. The genus Quercus includes more than 600 species of the oak tree, of …
Type: Garden Guide Plant
… The variegated turkey oak is notable for its creamy blotches and margins on otherwise dark green leaves. It is native to Eurasia. The genus Quercus includes more than 600 species of the oak tree, of which 90 are … that produce fruit we all know as acorns. Within the white oak group, acorns mature annually; in the red oak group, acorns take two years to mature (biennial). Oaks are often imposing shade …
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… yellow anemone-style flowers feature an orange center on this nonhardy mum. Plant this mum in full sun andn as early in the season as possible to permit the root system to become well-established before the plant comes into bloom for a …
Type: Garden Guide Plant
… Hosta fortunei is a medium- to large-sized hosta with green leaves that is related to many hosta that are naturally occurring … 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 … natural mutations or “sports” are common, and new introductions abound. Hosta cultivars range in size from several inches to several feet; it may take 3 to 8 years for hostas to reach their …
Type: Garden Guide Plant
