… spidery flowers top the finely divided leaves on this stalwart annual that thrives in the heat and drought of summer and continues to flower right up to frost. Butterflies, honey bees and hummingbirds are all attracted to the nectar rich flowers. This cultivar provides height in the flower bed and is deer resistant. …
Type: Garden Guide Plant
… Hibiscus moscheutos 'Cherry Cheesecake' has stunning white flowers with dark magenta centers and deep pink veins radiating out toward the lighter magenta edges. The petals are overlapping and slightly ruffled. At maturity, 'Cherry Cheesecake' stands 5 feet tall and blooms from mid July to fall. It is attractive to bees and hummingbirds while resistant to deer. …
Type: Garden Guide Plant
… The Bosnian pine will slowly grow to a height of 40’ and a width of 10’. Cones are a unique purple-blue. It does best in full sun and prefers moist, well-drained, slightly acidic soil. It is more tolerant of salt spray and wind on the foliage than other pines and can be used to block …
Type: Garden Guide Plant
… fragrant green foliage from mid-summer well into fall. The flowers are hummingbird, butterfly and bee magnets in the garden. This cultivar thrives during the heat and drought of summer and is a great selection for containers and flower beds. …
Type: Garden Guide Plant
… Plants That Celebrate Halloween It’s just about that time of year for ghosts, goblins, witches, and treats. To celebrate, here are some plants that are not only creepy and chilling, but cool, charming, and cute. Baby Boo Pumpkin Baby Boo Pumpkin Move over, big jack-o'-lanterns. There's a new kid in town. Baby Boo is a miniature pumpkin that’s white as snow. These cuties measure 2 to 3 inches wide and 2 inches …
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… Noticing and describing patterns in nature is an important step for categorizing and organizing information, asking scientific question about why and how, and making sense of the …
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… Brazilian species Alternanthera ficoidea , known as Joseph’s coat, calico leaf or parrotleaf, is a tropical perennial used to fill in the blanks in a floral tapestry. Rarely grown as individual plants but in crowds, they have foliage in many colors including green, red and yellow. ‘Red Threads’ has very narrow leaves that are ruby red in full light. In a container it will form a neat low mound. In flower beds, it is used as a filler between other annuals, contrasting nicely with chartreuse, orange or yellow …
Type: Garden Guide Plant
… Butterfly milkweed grows to about 2 feet in height with an upright habit. It is smaller in stature than common milkweed, with small narrow leaves that lack milky sap. It … the visual impact of butterfly weed. With a tuberous root, it can be difficult to transplant and may take several years to bloom. Native to our Illinois prairies, iti is an outstanding sun-loving perennial for our gardens. …
Type: Garden Guide Plant
… sweetly perfumed flowers with a distinctive dark burgundy blotch. This native of east Africa is not reliably hardy in Chicago-area gardens. Gardeners may purchase corms in their local garden center, online, or dig and store their existing corms at the end of the season in a frost-free environment. Replant the … frost has passed. This species was reclassified as Gladiolus murielae by botanists in 1973 but is still frequently sold in the nursery trade under the old name of Acidanthera bicolor var. …
Type: Garden Guide Plant
… known doubles in the genus. Each petal on the daisy-like flowers has three notches at the tip and droops downward from the bottom of a globular disc. An extended flowering season—from mid-July through October—is the result of the plant being unable to produce viable seed. Strong, winged stems make 'Double … about two months. In spite of its common name, this species, also known as Helen's flower, is not known to cause sneezing or allergies. …
Type: Garden Guide Plant
