… can grow to 6 to 8 feet tall, and can be trained to a tree form. It requires regular watering in extreme heat. Hydrangeas are best grown in full sun to partial shade and in moist soil. They bloom on the current season's wood—thus, pruning can be a good way to control …
Type: Garden Guide Plant
… At the Garden, seeds are sown two winters before the display, and are grown on the first year in 5- gallon containers in the nursery. Carefully overwintered, the plants are transplanted to their permanent site in the Garden after the last hard frost, where they produce the immense flowering spike. …
Type: Garden Guide Plant
… The reds buds of Indian Magic crabapple open to rose-pink flowers, followed by glossy red fruit in the fall that change to orange with frost. Crabapples are small flowering trees that provide a showy display in the spring landscape for 1 to 2 weeks. In addition to the eye-catching buds and flowers, their foliage, habit and fruit make them …
Type: Garden Guide Plant
… buds of MORNING SUN® crabapple open to white flowers followed by abundant bright yellow fruit in the fall that persist into winter. Crabapples are small flowering trees that provide a showy display in the spring landscape for 1 to 2 weeks. In addition to the eye-catching buds and flowers, their foliage, habit, and fruit make them …
Type: Garden Guide Plant
… of Ralph Shay crabapple open to white flowers that are followed by red fruit about 1¼ inches in diameter. The fruit persist into late winter. This cultivar is reported to have good disease … of Illinois Extension. Crabapples are small flowering trees that provide a showy display in the spring landscape for 1 to 2 weeks. In addition to the eye-catching buds and flowers, their foliage, habit, and fruit make them …
Type: Garden Guide Plant
… only filtered light. The leaves of this fern are long and strappy and can grow to 4 feet long in the wild, although 2 feet is more typical in most houseplants. Since the crocodile fern is epiphytic, care should be taken to ensure that … This fern requires temperatures about 50 degree Fahrenheit so it must be overwintered indoors in Chicago. …
Type: Garden Guide Plant
… The Australian fan palm is a native of Queensland, Australia and is the dominating species in the Licuala Rainforest. The glossy green leaves of this tree are shaped like large pleated … heights of up to forty feet. It usually has a single, straight, slender trunk 8-10 inches in diameter. As an understory plant it prefers bright shade and consistently moist humusy sandy … soil. It will not withstand temperatures below 40 degrees Fahrenheit and must be overwintered in a warm location that is not drafty. …
Type: Garden Guide Plant
… and stamens on this native of the humid, hot lowland rainforests of southeast Asia. Growing in the nutrient-poor tree canopies, this genus has developed modified leaves called pitchers that … hair-like growths inside the pitcher point downward ensuring ease of access and difficulty in escaping from the pitcher. Included in the water-like contents of the pitcher are tissue dissolving acids, enzymes and bacteria. Once …
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… Narcissus ‘Barrett Browning’ is in Division 3. It has white petals which have a touch of bright yellow at the base. The inner … the Greek word for narcotic and is tied to the myth of a young man known as Narcissus who fell in love with his own reflection. When he drowned in the pool where he had been admiring himself, Narcissus flowers grew up around the pool. …
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… 'Ghislaine de Feligonde' is a rambler rose that was introduced in 1916 by French rose fancier Eugene Turbat. It received a Royal Horticultural Society Award of Garden Merit. The flowers grow in clusters starting in June, continuing sporadically until a hard frost. The buds are deep apricot, opening to an …
Type: Garden Guide Plant
