… This tree grows to a height of about 30 feet with full sun and moderate moisture conditions. In April and May it produces showy, fragrant, white blooms. These give way in the summer to purple, red, and black plums that attract birds. This is a good shade tree. …
Type: Garden Guide Plant
… of Rhytisma fungi. Leaves that are infected with this fungal disease have round, light green to yellowish-green areas approximately ½ to 1 inch in diameter that eventually blacken. Heavily infested trees may lose their leaves … does not affect the overall health of the plants. Fungal spores can overwinter; therefore, it is important to remove all leaves as soon as they fall to lessen the impact of the disease next …
Type: Plant Info
… perennial plant with trifoliate leaves. Root-hardy in the Chicago area (where it gets frozen to the ground each winter), in warmer climates it grows as a deciduous creeping vine. It grows well in full sun and partially shaded gardens. Native to China, the flower shape, size, and sprawling habit are shared with many of the clematis native … — a characteristic described as an "analog" in the scientific literature. The genus Clematis is derived from the Greek clema (tendril) used by Dioscorides to describe several plants that …
Type: Garden Guide Plant
… fruit, much desired by birds. It has a distinctive horizontal branching growth habit that is similar to the native pagoda dogwood. This cultivar's parent, however, is native to China. Members of the genus Cornus , commonly known as dogwoods, are welcome in the home …
Type: Garden Guide Plant
… Reddish-pink buds open to white flowers on Donald Wyman crabapple. The fruit is glossy red and persistent into winter. This consistent performer and disease-resistant … are small flowering trees that provide a showy display in the spring landscape for one to two weeks. In addition to the eye-catching buds and flowers, their foliage, habit, and fruit …
Type: Garden Guide Plant
… for their flowers which appear in late winter or early spring and are often the first flowers to appear in the Chicago garden. peppermint Ruffles hellebore grows into a low mound about 2 feet high and 2 feet wide. The foliage is dark green with finger-like clusters of up to ten serrated leaflets which are evergreen … cool, moist soils with a high organic content but are very adaptable requiring only that the site be well-drained. Typically they are planted in woodland settings under deciduous trees where …
Type: Garden Guide Plant
… Kohleria are herbacious perennial plants in the gesneriad family native to tropical America. Kohleria 'HCY's Jardin de Monet' has flowers with coral pink tubes. The throat is creamy white with lobes spotted in burgundy. Flowers appear in loose spikes at the ends of branches, which are deep red. The dark green leaves are very large, up to seven inches long by five inches wide, and red-violet beneath. The growth pattern is strongly …
Type: Garden Guide Plant
… 'Blanc Double de Coubert' is a hybrid rugosa rose originally introduced in 1893 that's still winning awards in our day. The … paper, and highly fragrant. In fact, "rugosa" comes from the Latin for wrinkled, but it refers to the wrinkled appearance of the leaves. That wrinkled surface is a key factor in making rugosas as a class so disease resistant. In fact, they're tough in many regards. They're hardy to zone 4. They're tolerant of light shade, salt spray, wind, and poor soil. And they're so …
Type: Garden Guide Plant
… their colors, forms and habits. They are divided into two main groups: herbaceous, which die to the ground in the fall, and tree peonies, deciduous plants with woody stems which they retain … flowers on tree peonies appear 1-2 weeks before those of the herbaceous peonies. ‘Nosegay’ is a unique herbaceous peony resulting from a cross between two early blooming species, one … and yellow stamens; the foliage is finely cut. It blooms extremely early, making it subject to early season frosts, then grows to 28” tall. Plant in sun to part shade with eyes no more than …
Type: Garden Guide Plant
… The shingle oak is so called because its wood was favored by early settlers for making shingles. Its bark is believed to have been used medicinally by the Cherokee people. When young, the shingle oak has a pyramidal … 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 …
Type: Garden Guide Plant
