… Siloam June Bug daylily is gold with a dark maroon eye zone and a green throat. The flowers are miniature, measuring only … mid season. Although each flower lasts only one day, there are multiple buds on each stalk and several stalks on each plant. The buds open in series, so a single plant will continue to …
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… Louisa crabapple is a weeping form that is well suited to treatment as a single specimen. Rose buds open to pink … a showy display in the spring landscape for 1 to 2 weeks. In addition to the eye-catching buds and flowers, their foliage, habit, and fruit make them attractive plants almost year round. They are actively hybridized for flower …
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… Narcissus ‘Madison’ is in Division 4. It blooms in mid to late spring with double flowers that have a roundish look. The petals are white and very broad and arranged in several whorls. The corona segments are bright yellow orange with a band of …
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… Hydrangea macrophylla is a deciduous shrub that grows 3-6’ tall and wide. It features dark green leaves and large clusters of flowers which are either lace cap or mophead in structure. ‘Tokyo Delight’ …
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… Loyalist is a sport of H . 'Patriot" featuring foliage with deep green margins and nearly white centers. Hostas are shade tolerant, easy to grow, and long-lived. Although they produce flowers held high above the foliage on long stalks called …
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… The variegated turkey oak is notable for its creamy blotches and margins on otherwise dark green leaves. It is native to … to North America; the Chicago Botanic Garden's collection contains more than 60 varieties and over 1,000 individual trees. Twenty oak species are native to Illinois. Oaks are slow …
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… A U. S. National Arboretum introduction, frontier elm is a hybrid between the smooth-leaved elm Ulmus minor and Chinese elm Ulmus parvifolia . Our specimens by the Krasberg Rose Garden, planted in 1995, are turning into beautiful trees with nice, straight trunks and branches that arch outward. The leaves are small and toothed. Fall color is an outstanding …
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… of 8 feet with a similar spread. Its lustrous dark-green leaves emerge bronze in the spring and are composed of 5 leaflets. Beautiful, vivid, red-flowered panicles 3 to 6 inches long bloom … in May. The brown seeds that mature in October look like the eye of a buck. Its fall color is another attractive feature of red buckeye. This tree is also known as A. pavia 'Koehnei'. …
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… Jam' has deep purplish red flowers with overlapping ruffled petals. It stands 4 -5 ft high and blooms continuously from mid summer to early fall. It is attractive to hummingbirds while resistant to deer. This is a winter hardy hibiscus in zones 4 – 9. The name Hibiscus came from the Greek work ‘hibiskos” …
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… The queen of phlox, this species is a tall perennial native to lightly shaded woodlands of eastern and central North America. Showy midsummer flowers grow in large, conical panicles, with hundreds … from July to September. In hot, humid weather, mildew may develop on the leaves. Garden phlox is perhaps the most popular phlox used in the perennial border. Today, there are many superior …
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