… The leaves are highly ruffled and a shiny red brown, the dark leaves move from purple brown to a rich mahogany as the season progresses. 14 inch tall scapes bearing clusters of tiny white … suitable in containers, the front of shady perennial borders or as a groundcover. Mature size is 8 inches tall by 16 inches wide, and it prefers moderate moisture and will tolerate sun to part shade. It will attract hummingbirds and bees and is resistant to deer. In areas with …
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… features leaves with a wide blue green margin surrounding a golden center. This large hosta is a sport of H . 'Great Expectations.' Hostas are shade tolerant, easy t -grow and long-lived. … are also common; new introductions abound. Hosta cultivars range in size from several inches to several feet; it may take 3-8 years for hostas to reach their full size. They all prefer moist, loamy soil enriched with organic matter. Some …
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… Graceful spurge is a low-growing subshrub native to tropical America. It has been used successfully at the Chicago Botanic Garden as an annual to fill in spaces between perennials or annuals in flower borders and in containers. It takes …
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… Kohleria are herbacious perennial plants in the gesneriad family native to tropical America. Kohleria ‘Ruby’ The flowers are small and cherry red. The throat is white, overlain with red dotted lines. The attractive foliage is very dark green suffused with … by soft, ovate scalloped leaves and tubular flowers that are covered with soft fuzz. Related to African violets, the leaves are often suffused with purple or brown. The tubes, which are an …
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… Narcissus ‘Spellbinder’ is in Division 1. It blooms in early to mid spring with 4 inch wide flowers. The petals are broad … yellow with a small point at the tip. The cylindrical corona opens a paler yellow but matures to white with a line of yellow at the rim. Released in 1944, the garden worthiness of this …
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… that naturalize in Chicago-area gardens, it prefers a shady moist position but its ability to enter summer dormancy makes it remarkably tolerant of heat and drought. It is free of most insect and disease pests. Primula sieboldii is native to swampy meadowlands in Japan, eastern Siberia, Korea, and Manchuria, where it experiences …
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… This cultivated selection of Douglas-fir is a slow-growing miniature globe of short blue-green needles, suitable for a rock garden or border. It becomes more irregular and open with age, but grows to a maximum height of four feet. In its native habitat Douglas-fir, a native evergreen tree, has … – they hang downward and each cone scale has a three-pointed bract. Douglas fir is native to the Rocky Mountains and along the Pacific Coast; in the Pacific coastal regions, it can attain …
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… REGAL PRINCE® oak is a relatively recent introduction that is a cross between the English oak ( Q. robur ) and the … The genus Quercus includes more than 600 species of the oak tree, of which 90 are native 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 growing, long lived, hard wood trees that produce fruit we all know as …
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… explodes into flower. Plant this salvia in full sun and in average soil, and water it to get the root system established. This perennial is a hummingbird and butterfly magnet. 'Pascal' was discovered in 1988 at a 9,000-foot elevation … in the Mexican Sierra Madre Oriental mountains by Yucca Do Nursery staff. It has proven to be winter hardy in Denver, Colorado, during the last five years. Horticulturist Heather …
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… The Manchurian lilac is native to China. It bears large pale rosy lavender to white blooms that are fragrant. Members of the genus Syringa , commonly known as lilacs, are …
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