… habit. Its dark pink buds open to white flowers, followed by red fruit. It is reported to have excellent disease resistance. Crabapples are small flowering trees that provide a showy display …
Type: Garden Guide Plant
… out of the ground and cause plants to die. Please contact Plant Information Service at (847) 835-0972 or plantinfo@chicagobotanic.org for more detailed information. …
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… September. Make sure to follow label directions carefully. Please contact Plant Information Service at (847) 835-0972 or plantinfo@chicagobotanic.org for more detailed information. …
Type: Plant Info
… Indigo silky dogwood is a cultivar introduced in 1982 by the Natural Resources Conservation Service. It is a selection of a multi-stemmed native shrub found along streams and swamps. It …
Type: Garden Guide Plant
… will not be affected by the viburnum leaf beetle? A. Viburnum leaf beetles prefer viburnums with little to no hair on the foliage. Plants grown in the shade also exhibit more feeding … damage, and are capable of surviving slight infestations. Please contact Plant Information Service at (847) 835-0972 or plantinfo@chicagobotanic.org for susceptibility questions on …
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… are adaptable to most soil conditions, and some can even tolerate salt spray. They make excellent screening for privacy, tolerate urban pollution, and can be pruned to suit the site. … deer leave them alone! Do you recognize these plants as junipers? Most gardeners are familiar with the juniper, but unfortunately, familiar with just one or two forms, including the highly … 50 different species of this plant, with hundreds of cultivars, and many of them would make excellent additions to most landscape situations. At the Chicago Botanic Garden, junipers of all …
Type: Plant Info
… dormancy during the winter months. During summer, larches offer a soft, sleepy sort of beauty with their horizontal main branches and gracefully drooping branchlets. Their overall texture is … 75 feet or more. In youth, they display a pyramidal outline that can become somewhat irregular with age. As with all conifers, the larch produces cones. The female cones are very beautiful in … with sufficient moisture, in well-drained soil and full sun. They are considered medium to fast in their rate of growth — sometimes up to 2½ feet per year when young and vigorous. European …
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… Lilium ‘Scheherazade’ has deep crimson flowers with a thin line of gold to white outlining the edge of each petal. The flowers are huge, … 7 to 8 inches across, deeply recurved, and very fragrant. The stems stand 4 to 7 feet tall with up to 40 down-facing flowers per stem in mid to late summer. It may have additional … a lily becomes more established, it will produce more blooms on higher stems. Lilies make an excellent cut flower with long-lasting blooms and buds that continue to mature and open after …
Type: Garden Guide Plant
… Tilia cordata ‘PNI 6025’ Greenspire™ is a magnificent shade tree with a strong, spire-like shape throughout its life; fragrant yellow flowers in early summer when few trees bloom; very tidy and low maintenance, adaptable, makes an excellent lawn or street specimen, great by a pool or deck. Greenspire linden has dark green … turn an outstanding gold in the fall. It features subtle clusters of fragrant yellow flowers with tan bracts hanging below the branches in early summer. The fruit is not ornamentally …
Type: Garden Guide Plant
… cuneatum ) Yellow wakerobin ( Trillium luteum ) The Chicago Botanic Garden is collaborating with the Huntsville Botanical Garden in Alabama on a Trillium conservation program for the … of more taxa, or individual types of plants, to the Garden. When we began our collaboration with Huntsville, we catalogued each of its Trillium species to evaluate which ones from its … considered endangered. Trillium are so beloved that they have appeared on two U.S. Postal Service stamps. …
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