… This bulb grows to a height of 2 feet with full sun to partial shade and moderate moisture conditions. In March and April it has white blooms. It belongs in a border and is resistant to deer. …
Type: Garden Guide Plant
… This perennial grows to a height of 6 feet with full sun to partial shade and moderate moisture conditions. From July through October it has yellow blooms that attract butterflies. It is also attractive to birds. …
Type: Garden Guide Plant
… Q. I always look forward to giving and receiving plants of the holiday season. One plant I would like to keep year-round is the amaryllis. Please explain how to do this. A. Many plants can have an extended life well …
Type: Plant Info
… large curls along the trunk. Younger branches are reddish-brown before becoming large enough to peel. The ovate leaves are sharply toothed and turn yellow in the fall. Dahurian birches are native to the woodlands and mountain slopes of Japan and eastern Asia. The primary ornamental feature of birch trees is the bark. Many of the common names of birch trees refer to the color of the bark -- white, …
Type: Garden Guide Plant
… Metasequoia glyptostroboides 'Ogon' is a smaller-statured dawn redwood with gold tints to the foliage. It is suitable for small to mid-sized home landscapes, where a full-size tree would be overwhelming. The genus Metasequoia …
Type: Garden Guide Plant
… chlorophyll gives leaves their green appearance throughout the growing season. Chlorophyll is the only pigment involved in the process of photosynthesis — the absorption of light energy and its conversion to sugars, which are then converted into usable energy by plants. It is relatively unstable and … progressive breakdown of chlorophyll at the end of a leaf's life cycle allows other pigments to be "unmasked" and become visible. Shorter Days The only constant factor influencing fall color …
Type: Plant Info
… Named for its brilliant fall color, 'Flame' Amur maple is a small, vase-shaped, multi-trunked tree that grows to 20 feet tall by 20 feet wide. Adaptable to adverse conditions and cold-hardy to zone 2, it prefers full sun to part shade and moist …
Type: Garden Guide Plant
… Mike is a large blue leaved hosta named to honor Michael Stringer. Proceeds of the limited sale of this hosta went to the Michael Stringer Memorial Endowment for the benefit of orphaned children in Russia. Hostas …
Type: Garden Guide Plant
… Looking at it, the common name of featherleaf Rodger's flower is hard to explain. Its leaves are as big as most hostas' and heavily textured...anything but feathery. There is, however, a feathery quality to the spikes of flowers rising 2 feet above that foliage in shades of pink to rosy red. In the …
Type: Garden Guide Plant
… New England aster is one of the most wide-spread and recognizable native asters, found in all but the warmest and coldest areas of North America. It grows 2 to 4 feet tall, and starts blooming in August, continuing into November. The leaves are lanceolate, up to 4 inches long, with distinct lobes at the bases. The flowers are among the largest of our …
Type: Garden Guide Plant
