… becomes green as the season progresses. The half-inch fruits are deep red. Fall leaf color is orange. Adams is rated good to excellent for disease resistance by the University of Illinois … 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 attractive plants almost year round. They are actively hybridized for flower …
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… red-to-orange fruits. Its vase-shaped, branching structure makes it appropriate where space is limited. Adirondack is rated excellent for disease resistance by the University of Illinois … display in the spring landscape for one to two weeks. In addition to the eye-catching buds and flowers, their foliage, habit, and fruit make them attractive plants almost year-round. They are actively hybridized for flower …
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… single white blossoms followed by bright red fruit, which persist into spring. This cultivar is noted for good disease resistance. Its smaller size makes it a good street tree under power … 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 attractive plants almost year round. They are actively hybridized for flower …
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… This is a Bela Lugosi daylily. Bela Lugosi was a film star who was famous for his role as Count Dracula and this plant has very dark reddish-purple flowers, or as some would say, blood red flowers! … with lime green throats that bleed into the greenish-gold centers. It stands 29-33 inches high and blooms in mid-summer with large 6 inch flowers with slightly ruffled edges. Although each …
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… Prairie Blue Eyes daylily blooms prolifically. The lavender flowers have a near blue eye-zone and a large yellow/green throat. Each petal has a mid-rib of a lighter purple. The sepals are … in mid-season, measuring 5¼ inches. They attract butterflies. In milder climates the foliage is green all year round. Although each flower lasts only one day, there are multiple buds on each stalk and several stalks on each plant. The buds open in series, so a single plant will continue to …
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… mallows, are prized for their use as structure in a perennial border. Everything about them is large, from their rich green, three-lobed lobed leaves to their immense flowers that appear mid to late summer. Compact 3-4 foot plants are covered with saucer shaped pink and white 8-inch flowers with red stripes and a dark red eye. The leaves are maple-shaped and dark red-black, making this plant attractive …
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… Nymphaea 'Gonnere' is a hardy waterlily with extra double flowers, 4 to 6 inches across. They are pure white with a … Hemisphere. They are characterized by round notched leaves that lie flat on the water, and flowers with numerous petals produced at the end of a long lax stem floating just above the … each flower is a cluster of showy stamens. They have been cultivated since at least 2000 B.C. and are divided into hardy hybrids, tropical day-blooming, and tropical night-blooming. …
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… STREETSPIRE® is a narrow columnar form of English oak introduced by Schmidt & Son nursery in Oregon. This cultivar was selected for mildew resistance; it is a cross between the English oak and our native white oak. The genus Quercus includes more than 600 species of the oak tree, of … to North America; the Chicago Botanic Garden's collection contains more than 60 varieties and over 1,000 individual trees. Twenty oak species are native to Illinois. Oaks are slow …
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… lovers working with smaller spaces. Early spring flowers range from rose to lilac-lavender and literally cover the entire surface of the shrub. The dark green, semievergreen foliage turns … grow rhododendrons in the Chicago area, gardeners must modify the soil to increase acidity and improve the moisture-retention capacity. This typically involves the addition of peat moss and powdered sulfur. Like other plants native to Korea, this species is winter hardy in many parts of the Upper Midwest, including the Chicago region. The cultivar is …
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… During the growing season, staghorn sumac is covered with bright green, compound leaves that have quite the tropical appearance. Growing 15 … Native Americans did make a lemonade-type beverage out of the ripe fruits, which are deep red and form a fuzzy, upright cluster on the plant. They mature in late summer and persist into the following spring. Fall color is excellent—yellow, orange, and red all on the …
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