… Crabapples 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 …
Type: Garden Guide Plant
… Crabapples 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 …
Type: Garden Guide Plant
… Brazilian Red Cloak is a very showy ornamental shrub in the acanthus family. Native to tropical America, it produces large spikes of flowers that have … flower spikes held above the foliage. Because of its size, this tropical shrub is best grown in a tropical climate or conservatory. …
Type: Garden Guide Plant
… stood the test of time due to a unique tolerance of warmer winters that makes it a favorite in southern and northern gardens alike. It matures at a height of 31 inches if grown in full sun to partial shade and moderate moisture conditions. It has a faint fragrance, at best. …
Type: Garden Guide Plant
… gets its name from the silver stripe that runs along the leaves of this grass-like plant. In the late summer it has purple flower spike which later turn into white berries. Overall Silver … about eighteen inches wide. It is useful for edging paths and beds and for providing an accent in shady areas. Although it tolerates full sun it may require additional watering during drought …
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… 5-inch leaves that are ovate, pointed, lance-shaped, mid-green above, and pale green below. In mid- and late summer it bears saucer-shaped, dense, tapering white flowers stalks that are … open but become upright with arching tips when the flowers are open. They are useful grown in areas where not much else grows, and can be used as cut flowers. …
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… on this late season jonquil narcissus with two or more flowers per stem. Plant this narcissus in a location where the honey-like fragrance can be enjoyed. Some members of the Jonquilla group do not reliably return after the first year of flower. This narcissus flowers best in full sun and moderately fertile soils. Rabbits, deer, chipmunks, squirrels and other critters …
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… - find the flowers irresistible. This is a plant that requires a distinct dormancy in order for the bulbs to prosper and flower. After flowering and as the leaves begin to yellow, withhold water. Bulbs can be left in the original pot or redivided. This is another species that produces many 'daughter' bulbs if …
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… deciduous trees like oaks and maples where it completes its life cycle before they leaf out in spring. An extract of the leaves, galanthamine , is used in some European countries to treat Alzheimer's Disease. Other compounds are toxic, the reason …
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… Thornless Honeylocust is an attractive shade tree that is often planted as a shade tree in grassy areas as the fine foliage allows enough sunlight to pass through for grass to grow … foliage that appears yellowish-green and matures to a darker green, turning yellow early in the fall. It can grow to over fifty feet tall, although thirty to thirty feet is more common, …
Type: Garden Guide Plant
