… TEASING GEORGIA® rose comes from David Austin, the breeder known for combining the fragrance and full-cupped bloom of English roses with the hardiness and disease resistance needed to thrive here. In TEASING GEORGIA® rose the central petals are a rich buttery yellow and have the classic …
Type: Garden Guide Plant
… A native of the Himalayas, Aconitum ferox is known as blue aconite in India. In fact, the blue of its bloom is so rich that it's said to have turned the Indian god Shiva blue. As a high altitude mountain flower, it's one aconite …
Type: Garden Guide Plant
… Spend a day immersed in monarch butterfly beauty, life cycles, adaptations, interactions with other organisms, and other NGSS-related life science concepts. While providing tips for creating pollinator-friendly gardens, we will talk about conservation issues, discover a technique for estimating population sizes, and learn about monarch tagging to track migration. ISBE PD Hours: 6, Gateways: 6 Grade level: preK – 12 Linnaeus Room, …
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… Eastern beebalm is a native of the southern and eastern US where it is found in partially shaded areas with moderate to dry soil conditions. It grows to around 2 feet feet high and around 2 feet wide. This beebalm …
Type: Garden Guide Plant
… Just as interest in old-fashioned yarrows was waning, a wave of new cultivars from Germany was bred in the 1980s. Paprika yarrow ( Achillea 'Paprika') has vivid red flowers with yellow eyes blooming … above its dense, fern-like foliage. The bloom period is from early June and into October. Easy to grow in a variety of well-drained soils ranging from clay to loam to sand, yarrow is the …
Type: Garden Guide Plant
… Bells of Ireland This native to the Caucasus Region and Asia Minor thrives during the cooler temperatures of spring and early summer. A green flowered addition to the landscape palette and a favorite for cut flowers. …
Type: Garden Guide Plant
… The Georgian oak is native to the Caucasus region of eastern Europe/Asia Minor. The genus Quercus includes more than 600 … that produce fruit we all know as acorns. Within the white oak group, acorns mature annually; in the red oak group, acorns take two years to mature (biennial). Oaks are often imposing shade …
Type: Garden Guide Plant
… stately plants, hybrids of our native rose mallows, are prized for their use as structure in a perennial border. Everything about them is large, from their rich green, three-lobed lobed leaves to their immense flowers that appear mid to late summer. ‘Rosina’ POLYPETITE® Rose-of-Sharon has … flowers. It was a selection made at Polly Hill Arboretum at Martha’s Vineyard, Mass. The blossoms have conspicuous columnar reproductive structures in the middle, making them appear …
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… Blue Shadow kousa dogwood features bluish green foliage and a somewhat larger overall size than the species. In other respects, this cultivar is similar in flower, fruit and habit. Members of the genus … -- be it flowers, fruit, foliage, and/or bark -- and their range of forms from small trees to suckering shrubs. The dominant display, however, varies among the species. Dogwoods are native …
Type: Garden Guide Plant
… The common name forget-me-not is derived from the French m'oubliez pas and was first used in English in about 1532. There are many stories explaining its origin. Allan Armitage’s book, … lady on a riverbank. He fell into the water and as he was pulled downstream, he called back to her “forget-me-not.” Often called the water forget-me-not, Myosotis palustris is a low-growing …
Type: Garden Guide Plant
