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  • … This perennial grows to a height of 18 inches with full sun and moderate moisture conditions. It has white blooms in March and April. It belongs in a border and is also attractive to birds. …
    Type: Garden Guide Plant
  • … This mat-forming perennial grows to one foot in height with partial shade to full shade and dry soil conditions. It has yellow blooms from May through August and is a specimen ground cover. …
    Type: Garden Guide Plant
  • … This clumping perennial needs full sun and moderate moisture conditions to reach a height of about 4 feet. In the summer it produces pale yellow bracts. It goes in a border and is resistant to deer. …
    Type: Garden Guide Plant
  • … This mat-forming perennial grows to a height of 2 feet with partial to full shade and moderate moisture conditions. It has showy orange blooms year-round. It is a specimen that attracts birds and butterflies. …
    Type: Garden Guide Plant
  • … This clump-forming perennial grows to a height of 1 foot with full sun and moderate moisture conditions. It has blue blooms from May through August. It belongs in a border and is resistant to deer. …
    Type: Garden Guide Plant
  • … Description:  This small- to medium-sized shorebird is seen most often on shorelines or mudflats around the Dixon Prairie. …
    Type: Birding
  • … Description: This rare visitor to the lakes is a dark bird. Its pink bill has a white area at the base. …
    Type: Birding
  • … Description: This raptor is likely to be seen year-round in any location at the Garden or flying overhead. …
    Type: Birding
  • … This perennial rises to a height of 4 feet with full shade and moist soil conditions. It is a specimen in a border. …
    Type: Garden Guide Plant
  • … has a semi upright shape with outwardly oriented branches and densly packed leaves. The result is a somewhat irregular compact shape. It can be trained as a small tree or as a multistem shrub. It would work well in small spaces, as an accent, in a container and as a bonsai. It is very slow growing, about four inches a year, and ultimately only reaching 6 feet in height. … this tree coexisted with the dinosaurs. Ginkgo is sometimes called the maidenhair tree due to its beautiful fan shaped leaves that resemble a maidenhair fern frond. It is one of the most …
    Type: Garden Guide Plant