… Trees are integral to landscape design and help create an enduring sense of place. How can we ensure their legacy? Join keynote speaker Peter Walker, FASLA, senior partner of PWP Landscape Architecture and co-designer of the National September 11 Memorial, along with professionally diverse, … economic development, legacy trees in historic Chicago parks, the challenges of urban soils, and how pests affect the sustainability of the urban forest. Network with landscape architects, …
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… The Bismarck palm, with its huge silvery pleated fans and silvery blue sheen, it one of the more striking palms. It’s native to Madagascar but widely grown in tropical and subtropical climates, including Southern California and Florida as well as Brazil. At maturity, with enough heat and sun, it can reach 60’, but that …
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… iris. Anthea yarrow is the perfect plant for the suburban border garden. It is naturally deer and rabbit resistant and is tolerant of drought and salt. A butterfly attractant, it is lightly fragrant, and deadheading produces lovely dried …
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… Suzie Wong daylily has pale yellow flowers with ruffled edges. The blooms measure 4 inches and appear very early in the season. They are attractive to hummingbirds. Although each flower lasts only one day, there are multiple buds on each stalk and several stalks on each plant. The buds open in series, so a single plant will continue to bloom for 2 weeks or more. It is easy to grow and does well in full sun to part shade. The American Hemerocallis Society has awarded Suzie Wong …
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… Hibiscus rosa-sinensis 'Mrs. Jimmy Spangler' has rosy pink flowers with deep red throats and peachy yellow edges. It grows to a height of 5-6 ft. The blooms are medium-sized and have ruffled, overlapping petals. Each flower will typically last only one day, but new flower buds are produced continuously. This is a tropical plant and in warm climates it will bloom throughout the growing season. It was bred from an hibiscus …
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… All Summer Beauty has large mophead flowers which are blue in acid soils and pink in alkaline soils. The mophead inflorescence consists mainly of showy but sterile … blooming in June until fall with bright green foliage. It blooms in mid summer on new wood, and later in the summer it will bloom on old growth until fall. It is winter hardy to USDA Zone 5, but for added protection the plants can be sited in a sheltered location and given a good mulch and/or covered with burlap for the winter. …
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… flowers in shades of violet thrive in shaded to partly shaded landscape settings, containers, and window boxes from early summer through the heat and humidity of July and August and into the end of the season in mid-October. Other than drought, they tolerate most …
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… Medium pink bracts with darker pink veins and young bracts cover this mounded non-hardy shrub during short days - periods of time when the nights are longer than the days. Sap is sticky and tastes so bad that it stimulates an almost immediate gagging reflex - which is why there are … of poisoning each year. Place flowering plants in bright sunny, warm locations in the home and add water only when the leaves begin to droop. Be sure and poke a hole in the bottom of the …
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… was found in the jungles of northern Thailand. Thailand Giant can grow to nine feet in height and about 6 feet in width with single leaves reaching five feet long. It bears scented white … flowers during the growing season. Because of its large size Thailand Giant is a heavy feeder and will require consistent moisture. Elephant ears are not hardy in Chicago but the corm can be lifted in the fall and stored in a cool, dry, dark place and replanted in the early summer. …
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… The miniature snapdragon flowers of the toadflaxes combine elegantly with spring bulbs and other early spring annuals. If summer temperatures are not too hot, they can flower up to the first frost. There are 100 species of perennials and annuals in the genus Linaria native to the northern temperate zones, with a center of diversity in Europe and the Mediterranean region. Two species have become naturalized in the United States—one in New …
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