… The Manchurian crabapple features white flowers followed by bright red fruit. This variety is one of the earliest to flower. 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 …
Type: Garden Guide Plant
… native North American species. The species has fuzzy, narrow leaves mostly near the base. It is a short-lived perennial, usually cultivated as an annual. This cultivar grows to about two feet tall, with flowers 3-4 inches across. Butterflies love to visit the flowers for their nectar, while various seed-eating songbirds flock to the dried …
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… New! Seed is a precious common heritage, and an essential component to the future sustainability of our …
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… Burnstein Hall This workshop, brought to you by the Chicago Chapter of Ikebana International and taught by Ilse Beunen, will focus on the concept of ikebana done with one leaf and one branch. This is an off-shoot of school founder, Sofu Teshigahara's Principle #4 - Emphasize one flower, one …
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… This workshop is for aspiring growers interested in learning best-practice season-extension techniques to grow vegetables in the winter. Whether you are growing in-ground or in raised beds, what are …
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… An orchid linked to mythology Medusa orchids are named for the once-beautiful figure in Greek mythology whose wavy hair is turned into a head of snakes by the angry goddess Athena. When Bulbophyllum medusae blooms, …
Type: Plant Info
… ID of giant hogweed ( Heracleum mantegazzianum ) are not common in our region. This plant is not found at the Garden, and homeowners looking to identify the species and the threat of several related plants can find information and …
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… Tobiosho Japanese Maple tree is known for its full canopy of bright red leaves in fall. The foliage starts out green in spring … foot per year until it reaches 20 feet tall and 15 feet wide. It does well in a partial sun to sunny spot. …
Type: Garden Guide Plant
… bergenia ( Bergenia 'Bressingham White') produces the very palest of pink buds that mature to white flowers held well above the glossy deep green foliage. This perennial appreciates a bit of shade in the afternoons but otherwise is a hardy perennial for the Chicago area in moist soils. It was bred by noted British …
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… Clio™ Magenta Cleome is a smaller statured, sterile hybrid featuring lavender-pink flowers throughout the growing … in full sun and in average soil after the danger of late frosts has passed; water sufficiently to establish the root system and thereafter during periods of drought; it's rabbit and deer …
Type: Garden Guide Plant
