… warm-colored hues. Amber browns, golden yellows, and blazing reds cover many natural areas in the Midwest, including the Chicago Botanic Garden. It’s all thanks to fall’s shorter days and … to know and love? This season, we’ve seen high temperatures upward of 80 degrees Fahrenheit in early October in the Chicago area and droughts happening across the country. Those kinds of changes have an …
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… height of 3 feet. It requires full sun to partial shade and moderate moisture conditions. In May and June it produces showy, fragrant flowers. The plant can be used as a specimen or in a hedge. …
Type: Garden Guide Plant
… are formed just above the green foliage on this nonhardy perennial. This plant thrives in heat but does not like drought; it is indifferent to soils. It's a great pollinator plant in the garden, attracting both insects and hummingbirds. …
Type: Garden Guide Plant
… annual poppy with bluish-green leaves. This is a pollinator magnet. Plant this flower in full sun and in moderately moist, rich soils and deadhead to encourage continuous flower production. …
Type: Garden Guide Plant
… produce old world rose fragrance throughout the growing season on this floribunda rose. Plant in sunny locations that permit good air movement in and around the plant to reduce the factors that enable downy and powdery mildews and black …
Type: Garden Guide Plant
… to partial shade and moderate moisture conditions. It has insignificant greenish-yellow blooms in March and April followed by edible black fruit. It belongs in a hedge or a border and is attractive to birds. …
Type: Garden Guide Plant
… height of about 5 feet. It requires full sun to partial shade and moist water conditions. In the summer it produces pink flowers. The plant can be used as a specimen or in a border. …
Type: Garden Guide Plant
… sized upright clumps of greenish bronze leaves are topped by spikes of tan colored seeds in fall. As the temperatures cool and daylengths shorted the foliage turns tan-bronze and holds that color going into winter. Plant in sunny locations and well drained soils. …
Type: Garden Guide Plant
… Single pink flowers cover this native prairie rose in June followed by red fruit in late fall/winter. If possible, use plants grown from seed of local sources; the native range …
Type: Garden Guide Plant
… Lanceleaf coreopsis is a compact plant that grows up to 2 feet tall and is useful in the perennial garden. Larger than some other coreopsis flowers, the lanceleaf produces 2-inch-diameter yellow blooms in early summer. This species is a sun-loving native to our Illinois prairies. …
Type: Garden Guide Plant
