… of vibrant, fuchsia-colored flowers cover this naturally compact selection that thrives in the bright light and warmth of summer. Average, well-drained garden soils with good air … ideal planting locations. Great selection for containers, hanging baskets, or a spot of color in the landscape. This is a pollinator magnet of the first order, providing nectar and pollen to an array of insects and …
Type: Garden Guide Plant
… branches and can reach a height of 40'. Large compound, deep-green leaves provide shade in the summer before turning golden yellow in fall. The distinctive bark and shape contribute to this tree's great beauty. The main ornamental attribute of the Amur cork tree is the beautiful and unusual corklike pattern, which develops with age, on its gray-brown bark. …
Type: Garden Guide Plant
… blue flowers with a delightful fragrance. it grows to about 15-18 inches high and blooms in mid-spring. the leaves and stem of this plant are covered with very fine white hairs. bungalow Blue phlox is derived from a native American phlox found in eastern and mid-western United States. …
Type: Garden Guide Plant
… Explorer Series roses, all of which are named after early explorers of Canada, ‘Henry Hudson’ is a rugosa rose with pink buds that open to white flowers in May through October. It grows to 5 feet tall and has wrinkled dark green foliage. Canadian … Series roses are known for their winter hardiness, disease resistance and repeat blooms. Grow in full sun to part shade and provide adequate moisture and good air circulation. …
Type: Garden Guide Plant
… rose grows up to 4 feet high with full sun and moderate moisture conditions. This flower is the first in a series of disease-resistant, hardy landscape roses that have virtually eliminated the need to spray pesticides to control black spot. It has become the most widely sold rose in the United States. …
Type: Garden Guide Plant
… to mid-October, it produces lightly fragrant, double white flowers that tend to blush pink in cooler weather. The small, glossy, deep green leaves are disease resistant. Introduced in 1963, this is one of the first cultivars to be informally described as a landscape rose (it needs minimal …
Type: Garden Guide Plant
… Thunbergia grandiflora , commonly known as the blue trumpet vine, is native to northern India. Like other climbing vines, it needs space to attain mature size and … reduces flower production. Flowers are more lavender than blue. This genus was named in honor of Dr. Carl Peter Thunberg, who traveled and collected extensively in Java and Japan at a time when both of those countries were not friendly to outsiders. …
Type: Garden Guide Plant
… A favorite destination for gardeners and nature lovers alike is the woods. The Chicago Botanic Garden's McDonald Woods was once a part of a large oak … the Garden is restoring this beautiful woodland. Gardeners often wonder if it's possible, in suburban or even urban areas, to establish a little piece of woodland of their own. Jim … more on the whole plant community. He offers the following guidelines for gardeners interested in establishing — and then managing — a woodland community of plants: Woody plants are not all …
Type: Plant Info
… view part 2 Worm Composting View part 3 Why compost? Reducing the volume of your garbage is good by itself. Removing food from the waste stream is especially beneficial because food buried in a landfill causes production of methane gas and contributes to greenhouse gases in the atmosphere. When done correctly, home composting enables air circulation around the …
Type: Blog
… One of the most nutritious, ornamental and anticipated early spring vegetables is asparagus ( Asparagus officinalis ). This Mediterranean native has just 20 calories a serving, … Renaissance, and as early as 1670, "forced asparagus" (harvested earlier than usual) was sold in London markets. Its appearance has changed over the years from skinny, tall, narrow stems … years for a planting to become mature. Since asparagus plants can live for more than 20 years, site them where they can grow undisturbed, such as at the end or border of a vegetable garden. …
Type: Plant Info
