… Description: Look for this common migrant and potential breeding species in any wooded habitat at the Garden. Like …
Type: Birding
… This delicious culinary plant, being grown in the Chicago area for restaurants, is floriferous with a long blooming period. Flowers can be dried like many other …
Type: Garden Guide Plant
… fronds are a soft grayish-green overlaid with silver with contrasting dark maroon midribs. For the best color, plant this fern in light shade. …
Type: Garden Guide Plant
… encases the bright yellow tuft of stamens. Ferny lacy foliage accents the blooms. Dead-head for repeat blooming through out the summer months. …
Type: Garden Guide Plant
… Female trees produce blue fruit that attracts birds. Both male and female trees are needed for berry production. …
Type: Garden Guide Plant
… Q. What accounts for the different autumn color displays in trees and shrubs? A. Certain plants have a built-in genetic code that is responsible for their intense fall color displays. But even with these genes in place, trees and shrubs need … the two yellow-to-orange pigments, carotin and xanthophyll, begin to dominate leaf color. For the magnificent reds and burgundies to appear, a plant must have an appropriate genetic …
Type: Plant Info
… of my clivia plant in order to get it to rebloom next year? A. Clivia plants are easy to care for once you know their specific requirements. They need a cool and dry rest period from about … Please contact Plant Information Service at (847) 835-0972 or plantinfo@chicagobotanic.org for more detailed information. …
Type: Plant Info
… sap. In some varieties the leaves are crowded together and cupped or twisted. They are grown for their colorful foliage, which for this cultivar is a blotchy blend of light and very dark red with olive new growth. The …
Type: Garden Guide Plant
… Hardy kiwi vine 'Ananasnaya' is female, and that's important to know if you want to grow it for the fruit as well as the flowers, because you'll need a male vine for pollination. The fragrant clusters of ivory-white flowers appear in late spring, followed in …
Type: Garden Guide Plant
… You can see why the common name for this Aconitum is giant monkshood. In its native environment in mountainous areas of Russia … monks. They attract a variety of butterflies and moths, and are the primary food source for Old World bees. Another common name, wolfbane, refers to the poison made from this plant's …
Type: Garden Guide Plant
