… This cultivar is reported as highly disease resistant by the University of Illinois Extension and is extensively planted at the Chicago Botanic Garden. Crabapples are small flowering trees … display in the spring landscape for one to two 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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… double form of the common snowdrop features multiple inner segments that can vary from neat and uniform size to very irregular in size and shape. The fragrance of honey fills the air when these come into flower in very early spring. While the honey- scented nectar feeds bees and other insects, the doubling of the flower parts makes this a sterile cultivar that can spread …
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… was selected for its compact growth, a uniform arrangement of branches forming a full crown, and rapid growth. It is a male cultivar, will not produce the distinctive smelly female Ginkgo fruit, and has the typical outstanding golden yellow fall color common to all Ginkgoes. The Shangri-La Ginkgo will mature to a 55 foot tall by 40 foot wide tree and will work well as a shade or street tree. It is one of the most pollution-tolerant trees and …
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… related to weigelas. They can be recognized the opposite, toothed leaves along slender twigs and clusters of tubular yellow flowers with long stamens and pistils protruding from the flowers. The fruit is a dry capsule with long filaments. … along the branches. Fall color is reddish-purple. Bush honeysuckles, native to dry woods and clearings, are adaptable to many soils, and will grow in sun or partial shade. They bloom …
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… to form a large multi-stemmed clump. Use winterberry in the shrub border or for massing and screening. There are many cultivars from which to select. Winterberry bushes are dioecious, meaning they have separate sexes, so for fruiting, both male and female specimens must be in close proximity (one male pollinator is sufficient for four to six females). The flowers are small, white, and not ornamentally significant. Red fruits mature in early fall and remain through the winter, …
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… selected for its attractive foliage, pairs of ovate leaves which emerge red, change to orange and then chartreuse. Flower buds are burgundy, opening into pink flowers that flare out into five pale pink or white lobes. The throats are marked with yellow and covered in long white hairs. Beautybushes grow in sun or light shade, are tolerant of clay, and can take drought once they are established. Due to their large size, they are best suited as …
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… dense, multi-flowered clusters. The ¼-inch yellow-green stems arise from tuberous roots and grow to 2 feet tall, bearing thick, green leaves. Native to Tanzania and hardy in USDA Zones 9b-10b, the easy-to-grow Euphorbia neococcinea thrives in bright light and well-drained soil. Outdoors during Chicago summers, it is drought tolerant and resistant to …
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… Staghorn or Elkhorn fern is native to the tropical rainforests of South East Asia, Polynesia and Australia where it grows on tree trunks and branches. The fern has two types of fronds: the flat, wide, infertile fronds that cover the crown and the forked, arching, fertile fronds that give the plant its name. In optimal conditions a …
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… own selection of flowers ranging from pale lilacs through rich purples, charming pinks, blue, and white. Unlike many primroses, this species is well adapted to heavy clay waterlogged soils … with a variety of spring bulbs. Perfect under deciduous trees where they come into flower and complete their growth cycle before the heat and drought of summer arrives. Do not tolerate soils that dry out. Butterflies and a number of …
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… The Georgia oak is indeed native to Georgia as well as Alabama and South Carolina and can be found growing naturally in granite outcroppings. A member of the red oak group, the … 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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