… This mounded perennial grows to a height of about 2 feet with full sun to partial shade and moderate soil conditions. In the spring it produces showy lavender and purple blooms that attract birds and butterflies. It is a specimen as a ground cover. …
Type: Garden Guide Plant
… This evergreen perennial grows to a height of 18 inches with full sun and moderate moisture conditions. It has pink, white, and purple blooms that attract butterflies from May through August. It belongs in a border and is also attractive to birds. …
Type: Garden Guide Plant
… Native to Europe, the Dogtooth Violet is clump-forming bulb that doesn’t get over 6 inches high with a slightly wider spread. From early to midspring it produces pink, white, yellow, and purple blooms. It prefers partial shade and …
Type: Garden Guide Plant
… The Yellow Surprise Lily has pastel yellow flowers that fade to near white. This is a sterile triploid and probably originated as a natural hybrid in China. The foliage emerges in early spring, but the flowers don't appear until mid to late fall. …
Type: Garden Guide Plant
… Shredded umbrella plant is an upright perennial with deeply incised umbrella shaped leaves that grows to a maximum height of 18 inches. It thrives in partial shade and moderate moisture conditions. From late June to September it produces white powderpuff flowers. …
Type: Garden Guide Plant
… This clump-forming perennial grows to a height of 10 inches with full sun and dry soil conditions. It has yellow blooms that attract butterflies from May through August. It belongs in a border or a ground cover and is native to the Midwest. …
Type: Garden Guide Plant
… Cotinus obovatus , commonly called American smoketree, is a small, deciduous, rounded, Missouri native tree or large, upright shrub that typically grows 20 to 30 feet tall and occurs in limestone glades, rocky limestone bluffs, and bald knobs in the area of southeast Missouri. Smoketree gets its common name, not from the 6- to 10-inch flower clusters (tiny, insignificant, dioecious, yellowish-green flowers) which bloom …
Type: Garden Guide Plant
… bright yellow with dark green margins but the centers turn bright white by summer. This small to medium (15 inches tall, 20 inches wide) hosta is a sport of H . 'June'; the cultivar was introduced and named by Walters Gardens to honor an employee who died of breast cancer. Hostas are shade tolerant, easy to grow, and …
Type: Garden Guide Plant
… Actaea poetica narcissus ( Narcissus ‘Actaea’) is one of the best known of the cultivars derived from Narcissus poeticus . Pure-white glistening … if planted in well-drained, moist soil in full sun or light shade. It usually flowers in mid- to late spring (mid-May to the beginning of June in the Chicago region). Narcissus, like almost all bulbs, produces the …
Type: Garden Guide Plant
… The Sovereign pin oak is differentiated from the species due to its lower branches being carried horizontal to the trunk rather than drooping. Its dense branching habit in an arc of angles makes its crown …
Type: Garden Guide Plant
