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  • … Lilium ‘Elodie’ has stunning pink flowers with a double layer of lightly speckled petals. The flowers are unscented and pollen free. The stems grow to just over 3 feet tall with blooms in late spring to early summer. Elodie belongs to a group of Asiatic lilies which … plants surrounding the lilies will help protect their roots from drying out. Lilies make an excellent cut flower with long lasting blooms and buds that continue to mature and open after …
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  • … on top of varying shades of gold and orange in late spring. The flowers are 4 inches wide with contrasting orange anthers and a generous speckling of dark spots. The stems stand 4 feet high with 30 or more Turk’s cap flowers on a single stem. Typically Martagon lilies have a strong … plants surrounding the lilies will help protect their roots from drying out. Lilies make an excellent cut flower with long lasting blooms and buds that continue to mature and open after …
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  • … Lilium tsingtauense has orange, star-shaped flowers with almost no spots and an unpleasant scent. The blooms are upfacing on stems that stand 3 feet tall with whorled foliage. In its natural setting, the florets have a very distinct shape, branching … Lower plants surrounding lilies will help protect their roots from drying out. Lilies make an excellent cut flower with long lasting blooms and buds that continue to mature and open after …
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  • … Lilium Lilium ‘Creme de la Creme’ is a stunning blend of golden- orange fading to deep-yellow with a generous dusting of light orange speckles. The flowers are bowl shaped and downfacing. … which generally bloom after Asiatic lilies and before Oriental lilies. Typically they are tall with large, very fragrant trumpet-shaped flowers. Of the lilies, Trumpets are the least shade … plants surrounding the lilies will help protect their roots from drying out. Lilies make an excellent cut flower with long lasting blooms and buds that continue to mature and open after …
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  • … be planted as soon as the ground is workable in the spring. Before planting, amend the soil with plenty of compost and apply a balanced fertilizer at a rate of 2 pounds per 100 square feet. One-year-old plants, often called crowns, are preferred; they are fleshy stems with established roots. You can start asparagus by seed, but that will add a year to the … three when the diameter of the stems is larger than a pencil. Please contact Plant Information Service at (847) 835-8362 or plantinfo@chicabotanic.org for more detailed information. …
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  • … Lilium ‘Black Beauty’ has deep raspberry blooms with a thin white line along the edge of each petal and a green star in the center. Delightfully fragrant, the 3-inch flowers appear in late July to August with deeply recurved petals. The stems grow 4 to 6 feet in height with 20 to 50 flowers per stem. … plants surrounding the lilies will help protect their roots from drying out. Lilies make an excellent cut flower with long-lasting blooms and buds that continue to mature and open after …
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  • … tops out at 3 feet, but the rose will slowly increase in width via suckers. Champlain rose has excellent disease resistance, hardiness, a light fragrance, and showy orange hips in fall, all of …
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  • … flowers that darken over time. The strong, upright form and soft color make it an excellent background plant in the border, especially with fall's bright yellows and oranges. It prefers part shade but will take full sun as long as …
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  • … blue flower stems that can reach 10 feet tall. 'Red October's' narrow leaves are green with a touch of red in the spring but in the fall the red deepens to burgundy and after a frost, … moist, well- drained soil. It is most effective when grouped into large drifts and makes an excellent ground cover for parks, highway medians, prairie gardens, and perennial beds. The genus …
    Type: Garden Guide Plant