… Native to the eastern United States and northern Mexico, the clump-forming ornamental grass, northern sea oats, produces inconspicuous green flowers in late summer and early fall. It reaches a maximum height of 5 feet under full sun to partial shade with medium to wet moisture conditions. The plant is ideal as a specimen, a ground cover, or in a border. …
Type: Garden Guide Plant
… This exceptional hybrid strain of Dianthus is a true multi-use plant, excellent for massed bedding, growing in the perennial border or in mixed containers and tubs. Plants are midsized, with upright stems of dusky plum-purple flowers for months on end. Fragrant blooms clusters are large and excellent for cutting. Remove fading flowers to encourage more buds to form. …
Type: Garden Guide Plant
… 18-inch by-16-inch hardy perennial. Descended from native parents, this cultivar is well-adapted to Chicago's climate and soil. It flowers best when planted in full sun and in well-drained soil. Protect the young plants from rabbits in early spring. …
Type: Garden Guide Plant
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… Wayfaringtree viburnum is usually a multi-stemmed shrub with a rounded outline growing to a height of 10' to 15'. The … are feathery with a rough sandpapery texture. The flowers are a creamy white with no fragrance and are borne in clusters 5" in diameter. Bloom begins in early to mid-May and continues for two weeks. The fruit appears in late summer and goes through a series of color …
Type: Garden Guide Plant
… its distinctive horizontal branching habit appears to belong in a Japanese garden, though it is a native species. Its scientific name Cornus alternifolia indicates that its leaves alternate … most of the rest of the Cornus genus. Small yellowish-white flowers are borne in late May and early June and are followed by bluish-black fruit in July, much beloved by birds. Fall foliage is golden …
Type: Garden Guide Plant
… Cardinal is one of the more popular cultivars of the native redosier dogwood and is notable for the coral … fruit attracts birds later in the season. Its reddish-purple leaves provide good fall color and the red stems provide contrast against a white winter background. Many gardeners do renewal …
Type: Garden Guide Plant
… The Bailey dogwood is a cultivar of the native redosier dogwood and is notable for its bright red winter stems. It … The white fruit attracts birds later in the season. It has reddish-purple leaves in fall and later in the year its red stems provide contrast against a white winter background. Renewal …
Type: Garden Guide Plant
… hugely helpful at harvest. First, think about the top three issues in your garden this year—and all the hard work you've put into solving them. Next, think about the top three issues in your garden last year —and the year before that. Hard to conjure up? That's because memory is simply unreliable when it comes to the hundreds of details that make for a successful garden … The venerable Mother Earth News has a wide-ranging app that's free : motherearthnews.com Smartgardener.com (no relation to our monthly column!) has a free online journal that looks …
Type: Plant Info
… What do a pharmacist named Eugene, a cargo ship, and a home garden have in common? They all helped introduce invasive species that affect the … spread widely as they out-compete local native species for resources like food, water, light, and space, and can eventually damage entire landscapes. Introduced as a food source, garlic mustard ( Alliaria petiolata ) is now invasive in woodlands in the Chicago area and beyond. Most of the plants and animals …
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