… Korean dogwood, as the name suggests, is native to Korea. Its bark is notable for a distinctive alligator patterned texture. Like many … -- be it flowers, fruit, foliage, and/or bark -- and their range of forms from small trees to suckering shrubs. The dominant display, however, varies among the species. Dogwoods are native …
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… Coal Miner colocasia is a showy member of the arum family originating in southern Asia. Although cultivated for … The leaves point downwards like a shield, so their full beauty can be appreciated. It grows to four or five feet in height and about three feet in width and requires partial shade to enhance its coloring and consistent moisture to avoid wilting. Colocasia is not hardy in …
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… Mini crown-of-thorns ( Euphorbia milii var. splendens ) is a slow-growing tropical shrub with a rambling growth habit. Plants can grow to 1 foot by 2 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. The inconspicuous flowers, …
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… change color depending on the season: In early summer they are white, by mid-summer they begin to turn pink, and by fall they will have turned completely pink. GATSBY PINK® Oakleaf Hydrangea is derived from a shrub that is native to the moist woods of eastern north America. This hydrangea reaches six to eight feet in height …
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… change color depending on the season: In early summer they are white, by mid-summer they begin to turn pink, and by fall they will have turned completely dark pink. Munchkin oak-leaf hydrangea is derived from a shrub that is native to the moist woods of eastern north America. This plant has a dwarf form only reaching about four …
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… single white blossoms followed by bright red fruit, which persist into spring. This cultivar is noted for good disease resistance. Its smaller size makes it a good street tree under power … are small flowering trees that provide a showy display in the spring landscape for 1 to 2 weeks. In addition to the eye-catching buds and flowers, their foliage, habit, and fruit make them attractive plants …
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… ‘Weeping Willie’ is a weeping form with blue-green, almost turquoise needles with an open habit. It sends out … or twisting outward in unpredictable patterns. The whole tree arches over, but can be staked to be more upright. In its native habitat Douglas-fir, a native evergreen tree, has a strong … – they hang downward and each cone scale has a three-pointed bract. Douglas fir is native to the Rocky Mountains and along the Pacific Coast. In the Pacific coastal regions, it can attain …
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… STREETSPIRE® is a narrow columnar form of English oak introduced by Schmidt & Son nursery in Oregon. This … oak. 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 over 1,000 individual trees. Twenty oak species are native to Illinois. Oaks are slow growing, long lived, hard wood trees that produce fruit we all know as …
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… Narcissus ‘Blushing Lady’ is a late season bloomer in the Jonquil section of Narcissus with multiple flowers per stem and a delightful fragrance. The flowers open light yellow and over time the cups gradually age to a light pink blush. This species will thrive in most of the soils found in the Chicago area in full sun or under the canopy of deciduous trees. In addition to Chicago winters, it is also very tolerant of the hot humid summers of the Deep South that …
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… Stromanthe 'Burle Marx' 'Burle Marx' is easily distinguished by the strong green and white chevron patterning on its leaves and the … relatively small for a stromanthe at just 18 inches by 12 inches, and it takes three years to reach that size. As a native of the Brazilian rain forest, it needs heat and humidity, and it thrives in shade or part shade. All this has combined to make it popular as a houseplant and in containers, since it's not likely to survive in the …
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