… Golden shrimp plant or golden candle plant ( Pachystachys lutea ) is a subtropical, soft-stemmed, broadleaf evergreen shrub native to Peru, where it grows 2 to 6 feet tall. Its opposite, 6-inch, lance-shaped to elliptic medium-green leaves are heavily …
Type: Garden Guide Plant
… Shinyleaf meadowsweet is native to the eastern U.S. It grows into a dense, compact, rounded mound (3’ X 3’). Tiny white flowers that are attractive to butterflies grow in small flattened clusters in late spring on new wood. Spiraea betulifolia …
Type: Garden Guide Plant
… Tough Love spiderwort is a Chicagoland Grows® selection. Chicagoland Grows® is a plant introduction partnership of the … the Morton Arboretum and the Ornamental Growers Association of Northern Illinois formed to promote plant cultivars that perform well in northern Illinois. This variety was developed at … the Chicago Botanic Garden from two Great Plains species that are naturally found in full sun to light shade on barren, dry, rocky, clay to sandy soils in contrast to most commercially …
Type: Garden Guide Plant
… Very light pink blush to the white flowers with lavender spots are carried on tall spikes above silver foliage on this uncommon selection of the traditional foxglove. This biennial is unusual in the ability to flower the first year from seed without having to experience a cold winter dormancy to set …
Type: Garden Guide Plant
… Crown-of-thorns is a slow-growing tropical shrub with a rambling growth habit and sharply thorny stems. Plants can grow to 3 feet by 3 feet on this Madagascar native that may be extinct in the wild. The inconspicuous flowers, called “cyathia” are surrounded by colorful bracts. 'Supergrandiflora' is a mix of variously-colored plants bred in Thailand, with larger flowers than the species and …
Type: Garden Guide Plant
… Q. Is there is anything I can do now in the garden to make next spring’s work easier? A. Here are some general recommendations for tasks to do now to prepare for next spring: Check trees and shrubs for winter pruning while they are …
Type: Plant Info
… phlox are a valuable resource in any garden. In the springtime, moss phlox ( Phlox subulata ) is a cheery smile of lavender around the base of daffodils or flowing over the top of a stone … presence at the back of borders, sometimes reblooming in lavender, pink, or white all the way to October. Some of these perennials have a lovely fragrance (leading more than one species to be … blown around by wind as they grow, he says, which strengthens their stems. In a more sheltered site, they might flop more. Though its phlox cultivars get a layer of mulch to hold in moisture, …
Type: Plant Info
… Cercis ), tuliptree ( Liriodendron ) and many others. Description & Symptoms Verticillium wilt is a soil-borne fungal disease that plugs the vascular system of woody plants. Symptoms include … can appear on the same plant. The sapwood of an infected branch may contain dark streaks. To check for this symptom, cut a cross-section of a thumb-sized branch and look for darkened … live in the soil and enter plants through the roots. Infection occurs most frequently in cool to warm weather. Incidence of disease subsides during hot weather. The fungus survives in the …
Type: Plant Info
… This is a vigorous late vine producing small, open, bell-shaped, single yellow flowers with red anthers from mid-summer to late autumn, followed by fluffy seed heads. …
Type: Garden Guide Plant
… This is a vigorous late vine producing small open, bell-shaped, single yellow flowers with red anthers from mid-summer to late autumn followed by fluffy seed heads. …
Type: Garden Guide Plant
