… Description: This rare migrant and potential breeder is most likely to be seen in McDonald Woods. …
Type: Birding
… This clump-forming perennial grows to a height of 2 feet with partial shade to full shade and moderate moisture conditions. It has yellow blooms with white to pink inner sepals from May to June. It is a ground cover or an understory. …
Type: Garden Guide Plant
… This perennial native to the Midwest grows to a height of 3 feet with full sun to partial shade and moderate moisture conditions. It has yellow blooms that attract butterflies from July through October. It belongs in a border and is resistant to deer. …
Type: Garden Guide Plant
… This regal 3- to 4-foot astilbe cultivar has rosy-purple, fluffy flowers on erect spikes above the mounded foliage. It is quite popular because it blooms late in the summer and into fall, a time when there are few … garden. Often used as an accent, this tall, late-blooming plant grows well in the shade and is also excellent at the water's edge. …
Type: Garden Guide Plant
… Pink Cotton Candy betony is a Chicagoland Grows® selection. Chicagoland Grows® is a plant introduction partnership of the Chicago Botanic Garden, 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 selected at …
Type: Garden Guide Plant
… Hybrid paperbark maple ( Acer griseum x maximowiczianum ) is a very rare maple that features beautiful red fall color and attractive cinnamon stick-like exfoliating bark. This small tree is a hybrid of two Chinese species, both of which have trifoliate leaves. Recently the Flora of … nomenclature for paperbark maples, and recommends that all Acer maximowicizianum be referred to as Acer nikoense . …
Type: Garden Guide Plant
… cultivar can reach a mature height of 50 feet with a slightly narrower spread. This cultivar is a cross between 'October Glory' and 'Autumn Flame'. This particular cultivar is known for its long lasting, bright red fall color. Red maples are beautiful, but they do not … tolerate dry clay soils, where the leaves may become chlorotic, yellowing from an inability to uptake manganese from the soil. …
Type: Garden Guide Plant
… Scotch broom ( Cytisus scoparius ) is a shrub that is covered with golden flowers in early spring. The green stems are prominent with small, … and attract many pollinating insects. In warmer climates, this native of Europe has been known to escape cultivation and invade natural areas. …
Type: Garden Guide Plant
… was selected specifically for the artistic quality of the flowers centuries ago in Japan. It is winter hardy in the Chicago area but is most often seen trained in one of the many styles of Japanese bonsai that permit the plants to be appreciated up close. …
Type: Garden Guide Plant
… Angel Hair false cypress is a small, mounded evergreen shrub with light green needles of a very fine texture, growing in … prefers full sun and well-drained soil. In its native habitat in Japan, Sawara false cypress is a large evergreen tree growing to between 50 and 70 feet in height. The many cultivated varieties of this large evergreen come …
Type: Garden Guide Plant
