… and dryish soils. The flowers are great for use as fresh-cut or dried flowers, and the nectar is a favorite of bees and butterflies. …
Type: Garden Guide Plant
… light pink semi-double blooms that attract butterflies and hummingbirds. The light fragrance is reminiscent of tea rose and honey. It's resistant to black spot disease. …
Type: Garden Guide Plant
… This bulb is similar to the nodding star-of-Bethlehem ( Ornithogalum nutans ) except that if sited where it …
Type: Garden Guide Plant
… June followed by edible red, green, and black fruit. It belongs in a hedge or a border and is also attractive to birds. …
Type: Garden Guide Plant
… American red elderberry is an deciduous shrub that grows to a maximum height of 25 feet. It requires full sun or partial …
Type: Garden Guide Plant
… This is a clump-forming perennial that will reach a height of 1½’ and a width of 1’. It blooms in mid- …
Type: Garden Guide Plant
… This is an upright, vase shaped tree with green leaves throughout the growing season followed by …
Type: Garden Guide Plant
… Saving your own tomato seeds is an enjoyable and economical way to prepare for the future while preserving a part of the past. … but many seeds come equipped with mechanisms that stall germination until the time is right. Without the inhibitors in the gel sack, nothing would prevent a tomato seed from germinating within the fruit while it is still on the parent plant. When a ripe tomato falls off the plant, it sits on the ground and …
Type: Plant Info
… love to watch spring unfold in gardens everywhere—but at the Chicago Botanic Garden, my heart is in the water. As the Woman’s Board Curator of Aquatics, I like to point out the signs of … a short, curious-looking purple flower. The Budburst plant app would tell you that the plant is a prairie wildflower known as prairie smoke (Geum triflorum) —the flower really does look like … farther downslope, you might see another short flower, this one vibrant yellow. This plant is marsh marigold (Caltha palustris) and should not be confused with the insidious invader lesser …
Type: Blog
… This is the quiet time of year, when we put our gardens to bed. All the hustle of summer planting, weeding, and watering is just a memory now. But our gardens aren’t really sleeping. Look closely and you’ll discover … they’re busy singing, looking for a mate, and building nests—in winter, a bird’s main activity is to find and eat enough food to keep warm. They’re searching for something to eat and for …
Type: Plant Info
