… This perennial grows to a height of 2 feet with full sun to partial shade and moderate moisture conditions. It has yellow blooms from May through August and is a ground cover. …
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… This shrub needs full sun to partial shade and moderate moisture conditions. In the spring it produces showy pink, purple, and red flowers that attract butterflies. It is a specimen. …
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… This low-growing evergreen shrub needs full sun and moderate moisture conditions to reach a maximum height of 3 feet. It is a deer resistant ground cover, and its fruit attracts birds. …
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… This perennial needs full sun and moist soil conditions to reach a height of 4 feet. From July through October it produces red and purple blooms. It is a specimen in a border. …
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… This beautiful shrub needs full sun and moderate moisture conditions. From May through August it produces fragrant red blooms that attract birds and butterflies. It is a specimen in a hedge. …
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… Crown-of-thorns is a slow-growing tropical shrub with a rambling growth habit. Plants can grow to 3 feet by 3 … The inconspicuous flowers, called “cyathia” are surrounded by colorful bracts. 'Pet Mong Koi' is a cultivar from Thailand, with bright pink flowers. Its 5- to 6-sided fleshy, thorny stems are … all 12 months of the year in the greenhouses. Plants require full sun, moderate temperatures, and low humidity. The milky latex sap of this Madagascar native "bleeds" when stems are cut; the …
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… Crown-of-thorns ( Euphorbia milii 'Ruby Red') is a slow-growing plant with a rambling growth habit. Individual plants can grow to 3 feet by 3 … The flowers—yellow cyathia enclosed by red bracts—require full sun, moderate temperatures, and low humidity. It's a perfect addition to the desert garden. The name of this plant is from the Latin euphorbea for Euphorbus, a Greek physician in 1 C.E. who used the sap …
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… Golden Glory is a multi-stemmed upright form of Cornelian cherry that was introduced by the Synnesvedt Nursery Company of Illinois. A particularly hardy plant, it is more vigorous than the species and thus suitable for the northern Midwest. The plant is a multi-stemmed, low-branching, round to … feet tall. It features tiny, star-like, yellow flowers that appear in March before the foliage and deep green, oval leaves turn to a purple tinge in autumn. Flowers give way to tiny red …
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… Iris histrioides 'George' is among the first of the very early spring flowers to come into bloom in the Chicago area. George is actually a hybrid between Iris reticulata and Iris histrioides and combines the early flowering of histrioides with the robust vigor of the reticulata parent. …
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… The bur oak is a native tree and broadly distributed throughout the Midwestern U.S. It is known to be tough and drought resistant -- and very large. While its size makes it impractical for most home …
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