… Growers Association of Northern Illinois formed to promote plant cultivars that perform well in northern Illinois. This variety was developed at the Chicago Botanic Garden; its heritage includes three Echinacea species. It features red stems in spring and fall with deep pinkish burgundy blooms throughout summer on a compact plant. …
Type: Garden Guide Plant
… 3 feet tall, with handsome, large, dissected leaves that are silvery beneath. Site this plant in the middle of a sunny perennial border where the 3-inch wide, vivid pink flower heads, … are quite showy; they can last for almost a month. The deeply fringed flower seems thistly in appearance. Papery bracts around flower heads can be a conspicuous feature. Native to Asia …
Type: Garden Guide Plant
… as they mature. Smaller flowers bloom again from August to September. Plant Guernsey Cream in full sun to partial shade, and prune it in late winter or early spring. Remove the dead stems, and cut the remaining shoots back to 6 to …
Type: Garden Guide Plant
… 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
… one day, there are multiple buds on each stalk and several stalks on each plant. The buds open in series, so a single plant will continue to bloom for 2 weeks or more. It may re-bloom. It is easy to grow and does well in full sun to part shade. …
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 …
Type: Garden Guide Plant
… 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. …
Type: Garden Guide Plant
… an attractive ground cover. The toothed, bluish-green leaves resemble holly and turn purplish in winter. Deep yellow flowers appear from March to April and are followed by small clusters of grape-like, dark bluish-purple, sour berries that can be used in jellies. The stem wood is yellow and was used by Native Americans to produce yellow dyes and a …
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
… 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
