… HUMDINGER® Little Angel Butterfly Bush HUMDINGER® series is much more compact and shorter than its counterparts. Fits well into small gardens with a rounded habit. The foliage and flowers are both fragrant. Pollinators, like bees and butterflies are highly attracted to the …
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… Watercolor is an ideal medium to achieve a naturalistic style in botanical art. You will learn basic color mixing and do paint-handling exercises, progressing to rendering textures and form in color, and using paint-layering techniques. A supply list will be sent. …
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… spikes produce yellow flowers in whorls from late spring through early summer on this heat- and drought-resistant perennial from the mountains of Syria. The olive-green foliage is rabbit and deer resistant. Plant this perennial in full sun and avoid excessive water and fertilizer to …
Type: Garden Guide Plant
… months because so many of their cultural requirements are not being met: bright light, warm and humid air with no drafts. If you have had these plants for some time, perhaps it is time to repot them. Although they do prefer to be slightly "potbound," all repotting … develop off the parent plant. Good light is essential — a south or east window in winter and a west window in summer. African violets demand high humidity and may decline in excessively …
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… Asclepias tuberosa is a classic native perennial that's popular because of its rugged habit, bright flowers, and the ability to attract pollinators. 'Blonde Bombshell' is a yellow flowering clone selected from a field of Asclepias tuberosa . This variety has an improved habit and uniform color from what you'd expect from variations in a seed strain. Incredibly dark …
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… shrub in late spring. The flowers are followed by red fruit beloved by birds. Fall foliage is a colorful red orange. This cultivar is one of the most popular dogwoods in commerce. Members … welcome in the home garden for their multi-season interest -- be it flowers, fruit, foliage, and/or bark -- and their range of forms from small trees to suckering shrubs. The dominant display, however, …
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… The winterhazels are relatives of witch hazels and are ornamental, deciduous shrubs or small trees. Aurea will reach 6 feet at maturity and has pink-purple new growth that turns golden yellow in the summer. It blooms in the spring … border. It will grow in full sun to partial shade. Cotinus coggygria ‘Nordine Red’Smoke Tree is a small ornamental, deciduous tree or large bush that is grown for its attractive foliage and …
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… Midnight Rose Alumroot, with dark purple leaves splattered with hot pink polka dots, is so delightful. This lovely Heuchera hybrid would be a lively feature in any shady garden. It … or spot color evolves over the growing season, in this case the spots become larger and creamier in color as the leaves mature. Introduced by Terra Nova Nurseries in 2006, Midnight Rose Alumroot will be 10 inches tall and 16 inches wide at maturity. The foamy white spike of late spring flowers will extend the …
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… This slow-growing tree is a five-needled pine with lustrous dark-green foliage. Use it as a specimen plant. It produces 2"- to 3"-long brown cones on the ends of its branches and also has very attractive bark that exfoliates to reveal green, white and brown areas. This plant deserves greater attention in the horticulture field. The lacebark …
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… The native Shumard oak is a member of the red oak group and produces acorns biennially. Like others in the red oak … to North America; the Chicago Botanic Garden's collection contains more than 60 varieties and over 1,000 individual trees. Twenty oak species are native to Illinois. Oaks are slow …
Type: Garden Guide Plant
