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  • Ginkgo biloba 'Tit'
    … than most Ginkgoes and makes a very pretty small accent or focal point tree. Very nice for a small space or garden. It has the typical beautiful fan shaped green leaves in summer …
    Type: Garden Guide Plant
  • Hamamelis virginiana 'Champlin's Red'
    … seeds. This underutilized ornamental native performs quite well in shady sites and is great for the naturalistic garden or a large shrub border. Common witch hazel is the last shrub to …
    Type: Garden Guide Plant
  • Hedychium 'Elizabeth'
    … indoors, or dig up the tubers after our first frost, and store them in lightly dampened peat for next year. …
    Type: Garden Guide Plant
  • Eryngium x zabelii 'Big Blue'
    … it, as they do not like the prickly spines on the leaves. A member of the carrot family—famous for candelabra-like umbels of flowers—this striking plant needs well-drained soil and full sun to …
    Type: Garden Guide Plant
  • Euphorbia cotinifolia
    … shade, and are drought-tolerant. The species name "cotinifolius" refers to Cotinus , the genus for our native smoke bush, which it resembles from a distance. This is more closely related to …
    Type: Garden Guide Plant
  • Euphorbia milii 'Ruby Red'
    … 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 medicinally. The milky latex sap of …
    Type: Garden Guide Plant
  • Kolkwitzia amabilis 'Maradco'
    … of trumpet-shaped pink flowers in May in the Chicago region. DREAM CATCHER™ was selected for its attractive foliage, pairs of ovate leaves which emerge red, change to orange and then …
    Type: Garden Guide Plant
  • Rosa 'Queen Elizabeth'
    … with adequate water, responding well to applications of fertilizers formulated specifically for roses. Mound the base of the plant with mulch/leaf mold after the first hard frost to protect …
    Type: Garden Guide Plant
  • Rosa blanda
    … of polinators. And once bloom is over, the decorative red hips (seed pods) provide winter food for birds.  It won't surprise you to learn that like most natives, this is a vigorous, …
    Type: Garden Guide Plant
  • Sedum rupestre 'Angelina'
    … or as a spiller in a container, that dense, bright mass of color acts as a "footlight" for taller plants with darker leaves. But the color show doesn't end there. 'Angelina' is a …
    Type: Garden Guide Plant