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  • … conifer needs full sun and moderate moisture conditions to reach a height of 4 feet. It is a specimen shade tree. …
    Type: Garden Guide Plant
  • … conifer needs full sun and moderate moisture conditions to reach a height of 30 inches. It is a specimen. …
    Type: Garden Guide Plant
  • … conifer needs full sun and moderate moisture conditions to reach a height of 25 feet. It is a shade tree. …
    Type: Garden Guide Plant
  • … full sun and moderate moisture conditions to eventually reach a height of about 30 feet. It is a specimen. …
    Type: Garden Guide Plant
  • … Native to the Caucasus Mountains, Paeonia daurica is a robust early-flowering Caucasian peony with huge foliage and whitish-yellow flowers. …
    Type: Garden Guide Plant
  • … This tree grows to a height of 45 feet with full sun and moderate moisture conditions. It is primarily a shade tree. …
    Type: Garden Guide Plant
  • … need a windbreak, but a row of evergreens, like arborvitaes, can provide privacy and a nesting site for songbirds. A blanket of snow on their boughs adds winter enchantment in our garden. Eastern arborvitae or northern white cedar, ( Thuja occidentalis ), is a native tree east of the Mississippi. Western arborvitae, ( Thuja plicata ) is found in western North America. Both are sold in Illinois and there are many cultivars. Most …
    Type: Plant Info
  • … Description: A common bird throughout the Garden, this year-round resident is most often seen in wooded areas and at bird feeders. …
    Type: Birding
  • … Description:  This is a small, hunched-up heron, visible on logs in the water, stalking prey along the shore, or …
    Type: Birding
  • … Description: This fairly common, small shorebird is often seen in spring on exposed mudflat areas, especially south of the Dixon Prairie. …
    Type: Birding