… This cultivar is dense and compact, growing to 3- 4’ height and spread. Its name is derived from the plant's winter buds, which have an attractive, white, waxy coating all …
Type: Garden Guide Plant
… Intermediate Yew ( Taxus x media ‘Professor Gorczynski’) ‘Professor Gorczynski’ is an upright evergreen that grows under full or partial shade to full sun with moderate moisture conditions. Its green blooms are ornamentally insignificant. The plant is most often used as a specimen, a screen, or a border. …
Type: Garden Guide Plant
… my worms have generated some nice castings (worm poop) from the food I fed them. My compost is ready to harvest! If you started a worm bin or are planning to do so, you will know your bin is ready to harvest when the paper bedding and food scraps have …
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… Hydrangea macrophylla is a deciduous shrub that grows 3-6’ tall and wide. It features dark green leaves and large … rose-pink in alkaline soils – and color will change as the flowers age. This plant is hardy to zones 6-9 and will not survive Chicago’s harsh winters unless given a sheltered site, winter mulch and a burlap wrap. Plant in moist soil in part shade; attractive when massed …
Type: Garden Guide Plant
… Acer x freemanii , commonly called Freeman maple, is a hybrid of red maple ( A. rubrum ) and silver maple ( A. saccharinum ). Only specific … the late 1960s. This is an upright, fast-growing, deciduous tree that will typically grow 40 to 55 feet tall with ascending branching and a dense, broad, oval crown. Each medium-green leaf … lobes. As the trade name suggests, the foliage turns into an autumn blaze of orange-red to scarlet-red fall color. Flowers and fruit for this hybrid are very sparse. The common name …
Type: Garden Guide Plant
… 'Sentyabrakaya' , also known as SEPTEMBER SUN™, is a member of the kolomikta species of hardy kiwi vine. They have two distinctive and appealing features. One is their hardiness...down to -30 or -40. The other is their beautifully variegated green, pink, and white folliage. All the … but you'll get a bigger crop in full sun. Attention cat owners: kiwi vine is like catnip to cats, and they may harm foliage or dig at the roots. …
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… May and June, have numerous overlapping strap-like petals and a fruity scent. ROY’S DARK RED is a hardier selection made by Roy Klehm of Song Sparrow Farm in Wisconsin. Flowers are a rich burgundy, with clear yellow fall color. Shrubs can get quite large, up to 8 feet, and suckering may occur. Plant in full sun or partial shade, in well-drained soil. Native to the southern states, it blooms on new growth, so do not prune until after flowering. The …
Type: Garden Guide Plant
… Jade vine ( Strongylodon macrobotrys ) is a rare find in U.S. botanical gardens. Aside from the Chicago Botanic Garden, only the … in two different color classes being modified by high pH in the sap of the stems. Native to the Philippines, only old, mature plants produce flowers. Jade vine is a member of the pea … bat-pollinated in the wild. The brilliantly colored, oddly shaped flowers are adapted for bats to hang upside down and sip the nectar within. 제이드 덩굴나무는 미국내의 식물원에는 흔하지 않은 식물입니다. 시카고 식물원외에는 단지 …
Type: Garden Guide Plant
… Little gator aloe ( Aloe 'Jimmy') 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 …
Type: Garden Guide Plant
… flowers the size of dinner plates. Each flower has a red eye that bleeds outward. It grows to 8 – 12 feet tall and blooms in late summer until late fall, but does not set seed. It is hardy in zones 5 – 9. Hibiscus syriacus 'DVPazurri' may be sold commercially under the name Azurri Satin®. When the species was named syriacus, it was thought to have originated in Syria, but it is actually native to China and India. …
Type: Garden Guide Plant
