… fruit is a dry capsule with long filaments. The new growth of 'Copper' is coppery-red, fading to olive green, especially in shaded parts of the plant. This was one of the earliest shrub honeysuckles cultivated for the foliage color. They tolerate a wide range of moisture and light conditions and will grow … that are not the same as the weedy honeysuckles in the genus Lonicera , but they are related to weigelas. They bloom starting late June, and continue sporadically until September. …
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… September Beauty summersweet is derived from a deciduous shrub native to the eastern US. 'September Beauty' has prolific fragrant white flowers that appear later in … from the dark green foliage. 'September Beauty' is a medium height shrub growing slowly to about 6 feet high and 5 feet wide and is suitable for borders, screens or as a specimen plant. Summersweet is tolerant of a range of garden …
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… 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 -- and their range of forms from small trees to suckering shrubs. The dominant display, however, varies among the species. Dogwoods are native to cooler temperate areas of North America and Asia. The genus includes 45-60 species, divided …
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… are fragrant. It can be used as a garden shrub or in a mixed border. It will grow in full sun to partial shade. Cotinus coggygria ‘Nordine Red’Smoke Tree is a small ornamental, deciduous tree or large bush that is grown for its attractive foliage and plumelike panicles that appear in the summer and look like smoke. … has ruby-red foliage that turns a deep red-purple in the fall. At maturity it will reach 6 to 8 feet in height. It can be grown in full sun or partial shade.It can be used as a specimen or …
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… 'Emperor' is a large tree selected for its strong central leader and regular branching. It is a male clone, which will not produce the distinctive smelly fruit, and will mature to broadly oval shaped tree. I was identified by the Berthold Nursery and introduced by … this tree coexisted with the dinosaurs. Ginkgo is sometimes called the maidenhair tree due to its beautiful fan shaped leaves that resemble a maidenhair fern frond. It is one of the most …
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… Henry's Garnet sweetspire is a variety of Virginia sweetspire which is native to the stream banks and swamps of the southern and eastern US including Missouri and southern … In summer it bears showy pndulous racemes of fragrant white flowers that are attractive to pollinators and hummingbirds. In fall the leaves turn brilliant shades of reddish-purple which … untidy, when grown en masse they make an attractive informal screen and their preference for part shade makes them very suitable as an understory planting where other shrubs may not …
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… in two different color classes being modified by high pH in the sap of the stems. Native to the Philippines, only old, mature plants produce flowers. Jade vine is a member of the pea … and is bat-pollinated in the wild. The brilliantly colored, oddly shaped flowers are adapted for bats to hang upside down and sip the nectar within. 제이드 덩굴나무는 미국내의 식물원에는 흔하지 않은 식물입니다. 시카고 식물원외에는 단지 …
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… club resembling a soprano-range eighth note. The club portion of the “musical note” splits to reveal an attractive flower that resembles a small white butterfly. It has several red, thin, … beyond the flower’s petals. The buds grow upright in large numbers, borne in clusters of 5 to 10 white flowers. A prolific bloomer, the flowers have no fragrance and are rather short-lived, lasting at most for two days. The dull green, lanceolate leaves have variable shapes; some have smooth margins, …
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… Bear's foot or stinking hellebore is native to central and eastern Europe. Hellebores are prized for their flowers which appear in late winter or early spring and are often the first flowers to appear in the Chicago garden. Wester Flisk hellebore grows into a low mound about 2 feet tall …
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… with purplish- brown spots. The flowers are outfacing and cup shaped on stems that stand 1 to 3 feet tall. A single stalk will have 1 to 5 blooms and narrow leaves arranged in whorls. Lilium philadelphicum, or wood lily as it is … is naturally occurring in mountainous meadowlands. The bulbs were gathered by Native Americans for food. Unfortunately, this lily has been disappearing from areas where it is over grazed, …
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