… white flowers with a dark orange throat decorated with dark brown spots. Like most lilies it is fragrant but not overpoweringly so. It is attractive to hummingbirds, butterflies, and bees. White Henryi belongs to the group of …
Type: Garden Guide Plant
… America. Kohleria 'HCY's Jardin de Monet' has flowers with coral pink tubes. The throat is creamy white with lobes spotted in burgundy. Flowers appear in loose spikes at the ends of … large, up to seven inches long by five inches wide, and red-violet beneath. The growth pattern is strongly upright. Kohlerias are characterized by soft, ovate scalloped leaves and tubular …
Type: Garden Guide Plant
… Reddish-pink buds open to white flowers on Donald Wyman crabapple. The fruit is glossy red and persistent into winter. This consistent performer and disease-resistant cultivar is extensively planted at the Chicago Botanic Garden. It was discovered as a chance seedling at …
Type: Garden Guide Plant
… Actaea poetica narcissus ( Narcissus ‘Actaea’) is one of the best known of the cultivars derived from Narcissus poeticus . Pure-white glistening … petals, slightly overlapped, are centered by a small yellow cup with a red rim. This cultivar is reliably hardy in the Chicago area if planted in well-drained, moist soil in full sun or light …
Type: Garden Guide Plant
… Golden shrimp plant or golden candle plant ( Pachystachys lutea ) is a subtropical, soft-stemmed, broadleaf evergreen shrub native to Peru, where it grows 2 to 6 … it blooms in the summer. As a houseplant, it requires warm, humid, sunny locations. If it is happy it will bloom throughout the year. …
Type: Garden Guide Plant
… ‘Chinese Dragon’ is a tree peony with stunning reddish-pink flowers surrounding darker center flares. Tree peonies … more than 2 inches below the soil surface and protect from strong winds and afternoon sun. It is deer resistant. Peonies are popular garden plants, known for their stunning flowers, their …
Type: Garden Guide Plant
… ‘Goldfinch’ is tree peony producing a mass of golden petals surrounding a center of deep red flares golden … more than 2 inches below the soil surface and protect from strong winds and afternoon sun. It is deer resistant Peonies are popular garden plants, known for their stunning flowers, their cold …
Type: Garden Guide Plant
… flowers on tree peonies appear 1-2 weeks before those of the herbaceous peonies. ‘Nosegay’ is a unique herbaceous peony resulting from a cross between two early blooming species, one … delicate single flowers are shell pink surrounding red pistils and yellow stamens; the foliage is finely cut. It blooms extremely early, making it subject to early season frosts, then grows to …
Type: Garden Guide Plant
… and lobed foliage, which emerges pinkish in the spring. Indeed, the intriguing spring foliage is the primary reason for this oak's selection. Its growth rate is often described as glacial and its mature size may be shrub-like in nature. The genus Quercus …
Type: Garden Guide Plant
… The shingle oak is so called because its wood was favored by early settlers for making shingles. Its bark is believed to have been used medicinally by the Cherokee people. When young, the shingle oak has …
Type: Garden Guide Plant
