… make elderberry wine from the berries when they are ripe in late summer Gerda black elderberry is a showy shrub with dark purplish-black leaves and clusters of pale pink flowers that appear in early summer. The flowers are followed by edible … can be used in cooking or wine-making. This elderberry can grow to about ten feet in height and about eight feet in width and will sucker profusely if left alone. It is recommended that …
Type: Garden Guide Plant
… This perennial needs full sun and moderate moisture conditions. It has blue, lavender, and purple blooms that attract butterflies in May and June. It is a specimen in a border. …
Type: Garden Guide Plant
… The spreading cotoneaster is named for its habit. The overall appearance of the plant is rounded with arching branches. Spreading cotoneaster can make a fine-textured formal hedge and takes well to clipping. Its rosy-pink flowers, produced in late May, are often hidden by the leaves. Red fruits ripen in late summer and persist into late fall. Fall color can be a good red. This species is native to China. …
Type: Garden Guide Plant
… Description: This black-headed gull is a southern species that rarely is rarely seen at the Garden. It is most likely to be seen flying over. …
Type: Birding
… Gleditsia triacanthos f. inermis ‘Skycole’ Skyline©, commonly called honey locust, is native from Pennsylvania to Iowa south to Georgia and Texas. It typically grows 60-80 feet (less frequently to 120 feet) tall with a rounded spreading crown. Trunk and branches have stout thorns (to 3 inches long) that are solitary or three-branched. …
Type: Garden Guide Plant
… Seed Savers Exchange Board Director Jovan Sage is a creator, food alchemist, herbalist, grower, wellness coach, and restauranteur through her Brunswick, Georgia businesses The Farmer and the Larder and Sage’s Larder. In our guest speaker’s words, “We can all agree that good food …
Type: Item Detail
… hydrangeas were sold in the Midwest before the Civil War. Like many plants, they have come in and out of vogue. Today, hydrangeas are experiencing an extraordinary revival. The genus … Although some cultivars can reach a height and width up to 15 feet, a more typical size is 6 to 8 feet tall and wide. There are many new compact cultivars, such as ‘Little Lime’, ‘Bobo’ … However, breeders have created some newer cultivars that will bloom on old and new growth. Site plants in part shade in soils that are moist, but well-drained. Plants will tolerate full …
Type: Plant Info
… This clump-forming perennial rises to a height of 1 foot in full sun and moderate moisture conditions. It belongs in a border and is resistant to deer. …
Type: Garden Guide Plant
… This clumping shrub needs full sun and moist soil conditions to reach a maximum height of about 12 feet. It is a specimen and resistant to deer. …
Type: Garden Guide Plant
… Nothing is better than a daffodil-filled spring view. Bird Island in peak daffodil bloom. Antique Lace … area gardeners. Even their bulbs are recommended: they're large, moveable, colonize naturally, and, as long as they're not waterlogged, last for decades—possibly outliving the person who … enough of them last fall. You can remedy that with two simple planning steps this spring and some assistance from technology. Step 1: Snap pix at home First, head out to your yard at the …
Type: Plant Info
