… Nymphaea 'Georgia Peach' is a hardy waterlily with pale peach-colored petals and yellow stamens. Its leaves are … the end of a long lax stem floating just above the water surface. In the center of each flower is a cluster of showy stamens. Waterlilies have been cultivated since at least 2000 B.C. and are … Waterlilies need full sun to flower and must be anchored in mud as they are not free floating. …
Type: Garden Guide Plant
… Nymphaea 'Texas Dawn' is a hardy waterlily with very large 8-inch flowers of pale yellow with bright yellow stamens. … end of a long lax stem and floating just above the water surface. In the center of each flower is a cluster of showy stamens. Waterlilies have been cultivated since at least 2000 B.C. and are … Waterlilies need full sun to flower and must be anchored in mud as they are not free floating. …
Type: Garden Guide Plant
… but its ability to enter summer dormancy makes it remarkably tolerant of heat and drought. It is free of most insect and disease pests. Primula sieboldii is native to swampy meadowlands in Japan, eastern Siberia, Korea, and Manchuria, where it …
Type: Garden Guide Plant
… of purple, magenta, and silver, dramatically outlined by deep green veins. Persian Shield is a soft-stemmed shrub that reaches 3 feet or more in its native tropics. Though it may not have … to reach that size when used as an annual, this heat-loving, drought tolerant, relatively pest-free plant is easy to grow with moderate watering. And it’s a great foil for other shade lovers, from ferns …
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… Hay-scented fern is a non-flowering fern perennial. It gets its common name from its leaves, which smell like new … forming large colonies. In the fall it turns a delicate yellow. A native to the Midwest, it is best used as a ground cover or an understory. …
Type: Garden Guide Plant
… that dries out periodically, and avoid excess fertilization that would encourage the stems to get too tall and flop over. Tolerant of droughts once the root system is well-established, this fall bloomer is insect-, disease-, rabbit-, and deer-resistant. …
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… to USDA Zone 7, in the Chicago area the tubers need to be dug up and overwintered in a frost-free location to reuse the following year. The plant attracts hummingbirds and butterflies, and …
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… Free program Thursday, May 21, 2015 2 – 3 p.m. Alsdorf Auditorium, Regenstein Center Benjamin F. … share outstanding American gardens for the education and inspiration of the public. This event is cosponsored by the Garden Conservancy. …
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… mums for their popularity as corsages during football season. Not reliably hardy, this is a cultivar that gardeners will need to either overwinter in a frost-free location or obtain commercially and plant in full sun, moderately rich, well-drained soils, …
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… virtually all Fuchsia species (and their hundreds of hybrids) preferred moist, cool, frost-free growing environments. This limited their use in outdoor garden settings for everyone outside … California and the Pacific Northwest. Billy Green fuchsia ( Fuchsia 'Billy Green'), however, is an offspring of that heat-tolerant fuchsia and has expanded the range of garden fuchsias to …
Type: Garden Guide Plant
