… This beautiful shrub grows up to 6 feet high with full sun and moderate moisture conditions. From May through October it produces fragrant pink and white blooms. It is a specimen in a border. …
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… This beautiful shrub grows up to 4 feet high with full sun and moist soil conditions. From May through December it produces fragrant red and purple blooms. It is a specimen in a border. …
Type: Garden Guide Plant
… This beautiful shrub grows up to 6 feet high with full sun and moderate moisture conditions. From May through October it produces fragrant yellow blooms. It is a specimen in a border or hedge. …
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… This perennial grows to a height of 10 feet with full sun and moist soil conditions. It blooms via inflorescences from May through August. It is a specimen in a border or a ground cover. …
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… This tree grows to a height of 20 feet with full sun and moderate moisture conditions. It has white blooms in July and August. It is an urban street or a shade tree. …
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… plants, and gardening associations of Christmas, and added a tree, decorations, and candles to light up the night. Wealthy Victorians with “glass houses” were able to extend the growing … plants, whose trailing stems are trained to grow around, up, and through a wire form. This is truly hands-on gardening, since the plant’s new growth is not allowed to go where it wants to … personal set of growing preferences, and gardeners must make a good match between their home site and a suitable plant. Ivy is shade tolerant and loves cool conditions, but will crisp up in …
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… Yellow wild indigo is a 2- to 3-foot tall native perennial plant known for its small yellow, pea-like flowers that … May-June. The flowers are replaced by ornamental tan seedpods that make attractive additions to dried flower arrangements. The bluish green leaves are held on upright stems. Plants prefer …
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… This plant is a type of willow tree that has stems that are bright green in the winter time, even when it has lost its leaves. The stems can be used to make baskets too! Green dicks purple osier willow can grow to about sixteen feet tall and about eight feet wide but this tree is usually coppiced (cut back …
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… Why Care about Fungi? The Chicago area is host to more than a thousand species of mushrooms and mushroom like fungi—beneficial, … the forest. If you do collect in the wild, be aware of and follow rules for collecting at that site, e.g., collecting fungi is not allowed on any forest preserve property in the greater …
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… How often have you heard that the true lilies (Lilium) are either difficult to grow or are not well adapted to the Midwest? Fortunately, these are merely myths. Lilies are wonderfully diverse and can … brain; and fill your garden with fragrances spicy, sweet, or exotic. The key to growing lilies is simple: give them plenty of sunshine and good air circulation, and deep, well-drained soil. …
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