… This tree grows to a height of 13 feet with full sun and moderate moisture conditions. Its white blooms from March through June are followed by pink and yellowish-green fruit. It is a specimen. …
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… Ayurveda is the popular health and healing system associated with yoga. If you’ve benefitted from your yoga practice and would like to learn more ways to build a healthy lifestyle, join us for this fun and informative class. Please bring pen and …
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… Geum 'Fuzzy Navel’ stands 32 inches high and blooms from mid May to early July with 1” yellow flowers that face outward. The flowers are held on thin wiry stems above a clump of green basal leaves. Plant it in full sun to partial shade. It is hardy in zones 4- 8. …
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… This beautiful climbing rose grows up to 8 feet high with full sun and moderate moisture conditions. From mid-June through mid-October … light pink semi-double blooms that attract butterflies and hummingbirds. The light fragrance is reminiscent of tea rose and honey. It's resistant to black spot disease. …
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… This bulb is similar to the nodding star-of-Bethlehem ( Ornithogalum nutans ) except that if sited where it … white flowers grow in umbels, radiating from a central point on the flower stem. It may reseed to the point of being invasive. …
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… American red elderberry is an deciduous shrub that grows to a maximum height of 25 feet. It requires full sun or partial … shade and moist water conditions. In early summer it produces yellow blooms that give way to red fruit that attracts birds. The plant can be used in a hedge or a border. …
Type: Garden Guide Plant
… as how you can join Budburst, a Chicago Botanic Garden community science program. Learn how to submit observations with our mobile app and explore nature near you. A 45-minute guided walk takes place at 1 p.m. or take a self-guided walk anytime. The short trail loop is about 1/3 mile; the longer trail loop is about 2/3 mile. Dress for the weather. If winds are 20 or more miles per hour or if there is …
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… Sweet flag is a wetland species in the arum family resembling cattails or sweet flag iris, with narrow, rigid leaves up to three feet tall. The leaves have ridges and the bases have a red tinge. The flower is a curious little yellow-green spike (called a “spadix”). It shoots out at an angle from a stem …
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… Golden pole cactus ( Hildewintera aureispina ), a member of the Cactaceae family, is a branching cactus that forms tangled mounds of long stems that spread, arch, and trail fairly rapidly. The very appropriate common name refers to the stems, which can grow up to 3 feet long and 1 inch wide with multiple branches covered with short, bristly, golden spines. …
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