… dogwood may be the same plant as Winter Beauty and features the same stunning two-toned stems in winter -- yellow orange at the base and red at the tips. Small white flowers in spring are followed by black fruit. Members of the genus Cornus , commonly known as dogwoods, are welcome in the home garden for their multi-season interest -- be it flowers, fruit, foliage, and/or bark …
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… green with irregular golden margins. Like the species, this cultivar bears small white flowers in spring, white fruit in summer and its dark red stems provide winter interest. Members of the genus Cornus , commonly known as dogwoods, are welcome in the home garden for their multi-season interest -- be it flowers, fruit, foliage, and/or bark …
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… 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 that can thrive in rocky soil and full sun. It's also the most toxic of the Aconitums, so wear your gardening …
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… you'll need a male vine for pollination. The fragrant clusters of ivory-white flowers appear in late spring, followed in September with deliciously sweet, smooth-skinned fruit about the size of a grape. 'Cordifolia' … you can be confident Chicago winters won't faze it. It's not fussy about soil. And it's happy in full sun or part shade. However, it will need frequent pruning and strong support...the vines …
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… and reddish stems. Too large to be a house plant, these plants do well as a border plant in tropical areas. Bromeliads are tropical American succulent plants that grow on tree branches or tucked into crevices of moist cliffs. They grow in rosettes, with stiff leaves radiating from the center. Plants in the tropical American genus Aechmea are called vase plants or urn plants. Their curved leaves …
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… Individual plants can grow to 5 feet by 3 feet on this Madagascar native that may be extinct in the wild. Its 5- to 6-sided fleshy, thorny stems are adorned with short, oblong leaves that … garden. The name of this plant is from the Latin euphorbea for Euphorbus, a Greek physician in 1 C.E. who used the sap medicinally. The milky latex sap of this Madagascar native "bleeds" when …
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… is derived from a plant that is native to the Chicagoland area. It flowers prolifically in late spring with small pinkish-lavender flowers. After the flowers fade the plant bears the … against the pale flowers. Espresso grows to about two feet high and eighteen inches wide in full or partial sun making it suitable for borders in sunny areas. It requires regular deep watering during dry periods. …
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… show of trumpet-shaped blossoms — white with purple stripes and red to yellow spots inside — in long panicles of 10 to 30 blooms. The pollinated blooms then begin the process of transformation into long, thin, beanlike pods, which hang in great clusters from the tree long into fall (and sometimes winter). A rapidly growing deciduous tree, northern catalpa may grow up to 70 feet tall in optimal conditions and prefers moist, deep, rich soils but adapts well to dry or wet soils and …
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… Ginkgo 'Windover Gold' was introduced by Windover Nurseries in southern Indiana and has leaves slightly larger that is typical. It was selected from a male tree and will not produce the distinctive strong smelling fruit in the fall. Windover Gold Ginkgo will become a full size broadly oval shade tree approximately … a maidenhair fern frond. It is one of the most pollution-tolerant trees and works well in the city. The Ginkgo is an ancient deciduous conifer and evidence has been found which shows …
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… Vernal or Ozark witch hazels, although native from Missouri to Texas, are fully hardy in the Chicago area and are a welcome harbinger of spring. These are medium-sized shrubs or small … yellow petals that emerge from a dark red calyx. Each flower has four petals, but they grow in tight clusters of three or four. The petals unfurl late in winter or early spring as soon as temperatures get above 40 degrees. If temperatures go below …
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