… Sarracenia ‘Scarlet Belle’ produces foot high ‘hooded pitchers’ that somewhat resemble a red and pink cobra with white markings. A carnivorous plant adapted to acidic bogs where nitrogen is severely limited, it produces a combination of water and sugar with digestive enzymes at the bottom of the pitcher. Insects looking for a drink of …
Type: Garden Guide Plant
… The Garden’s online class on ghoulish plants is an enjoyable virtual experience you can take anywhere! Enjoy enchanting stories about spooky plants found in fairy tales and folklore. Discover the mystery of foxgloves, aconite, and other ghoulish plants. This class will be taught online via Zoom. All registrations must be …
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… Golden Japanese sweet flag is grown primarily for its fragrant and attractive greenish-yellow foliage, which resembles that … through August, giving way to inedible red berries in the fall. The plant grows to 1 foot high and spreads to 1 foot. Grow in moist soil in full sun to part shade, or use it at the edge of …
Type: Garden Guide Plant
… a silver sheen. A native of Brazil, this smaller selection of Allamanda's combination of bloom and leaf color add a spot of excitement in the landscape. Like other members of the Apocynaceae plant family, all parts of the plant are poisonous, and the sap is known to cause allergic dermatitis on sensitive individuals. …
Type: Garden Guide Plant
… with a reddish blush at the center of each tube on this short-lived perennial. This plant is ideal for sun or partial shaded locations in the garden, where they can be allowed to naturalize. Plant it in moderately fertile, moist soils, and permit the plants to mature and disperse their seeds at the end of the season for future generations. Aquilegias are known as …
Type: Garden Guide Plant
… This familiar yellow foxglove is a favorite for cottage gardens and perennial borders. A refined, shorter species, Digitalis lutea has rough blue-green foliage and daintily nodding lemon-yellow blossoms. The flowers are borne on sturdy stems but may need …
Type: Garden Guide Plant
… short spikes cover the plant in honey scented flowers from early to mid-spring in containers and annual flower beds. In northern climates this biennial is not hardy but can tolerate light early spring frosts after planting out. Plant in sunny locations in moderately fertile soils and maintain moisture throughout the flowering period. In cool northern summers the flower period …
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… Hibiscus 'Mars Madness' has large 6-8” magenta flowers with bright red eyes and overlapping ruffled petals. The foliage resembles maple leaves in shape. The flowers are … instead of just at the top as in some hibiscus cultivars. The plant stands 4 – 5 feet tall and blooms from mid summer until fall. It is attractive to hummingbirds while resistant to deer. …
Type: Garden Guide Plant
… Windspiel is a German word meaning wind play, and it refers to the way the wind moves the blooms of this … grass that prefers full sun, it has linear green leaves that turn yellow in the fall and 15- to 20-inch purple flower panicles that bloom from June to October. Planted as a specimen …
Type: Garden Guide Plant
… lily ( Lilium 'Nippon') features large, fragrant white flowers with deep yellow midveins and burgundy freckles on the lower end of the petals. The flowers bloom in August on thin, 4-foot … in shady locations but their "heads" in the sun—an edge of a border or among other perennials is ideal. Protect this lily from rabbits and deer; otherwise, it's not prone to many pests or diseases. …
Type: Garden Guide Plant
