… has dark pink flowers that are the shape of a turtle's head. It's also a plant that likes to grow around ponds and bogs where you might find turtles. TINY TORTUGA is a form of a wildflower native to the eastern US where it likes shady moist areas around bogs and streams. The dark pink flowers …
Type: Garden Guide Plant
… A native hybrid, Lemon Queen perennial sunflower ( Helianthus 'Lemon Queen') is a strikingly tall beauty, growing to 8 feet in height and 6 feet in width with 2-inch diameter, with soft-lemon sunflowers from late July to frost. Plant 'Lemon Queen' in full sun, in the back of the flower bed, and avoid excessive …
Type: Garden Guide Plant
… daylily has vibrant golden-apricot double blooms. The flowers measure 4½ inches in early to mid season and may rebloom. Although each flower lasts only one day, there are multiple buds … 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 is easy to grow and does well in full sun to part shade. Condilla has won the Ida Munson Award, …
Type: Garden Guide Plant
… flowers with dark veins and very dark purple centers. The flowers are huge, measuring up to 10 inches in diameter, and bloom from mid summer to fall. At maturity the plant stands 3-4 feet high with maple-like purplish green leaves. It is hardy to zone 4. The name Hibiscus came from the Greek word “hibiskos” that meant …
Type: Garden Guide Plant
… bicolored flowers with almost white petals edged with deep pink and accented with deep pink to red centers. The flowers are 6 to 9 inches in diameter. At maturity the plant stands 6 feet high and blooms in mid summer to fall. It is hardy in zones 5–9. The name Hibiscus came from the Greek word “hibiskos” that meant …
Type: Garden Guide Plant
… Paeonia 'Yellow Doodle Dandy' is an Itoh or intersectional hybrid peony. The creamy yellow double flowers are 8 inches across with a subtle fragrance. The plant grows to 2 to 2 1/2 feet, taking on a shrubby appearance throughout the summer, then dies to the ground in …
Type: Garden Guide Plant
… This balloon flower cultivar typically grows to only a couple of feet tall (about two-thirds the height of the species). Unique, puffy flower … double, blue, upward-facing, bell-shaped flowers with five pointed lobes. Oval, dentate leaves to 3" long are well spaced along the upright stems. Blooms from the summer solstice to early fall and is pest- and disease-free for most gardeners. Attracts a number of pollen- and nectar-feeding …
Type: Garden Guide Plant
… Description: This state-threatened, migrating species is locally rare, and is associated with old-growth forest that is declining throughout its range. …
Type: Birding
… the Garden’s supervisor of plant health care. “We’re seeing meadow vole and rabbit damage to woody plants. In the winter, when they can’t find sources of food, they’ll chew the outer bark … girdling), it can kill the plant—at least above the girdled area. Although rabbits tend to prefer certain plants like cotoneaster, fruit trees, and roses, Tiddens discovered that they … For now, it’s scout and monitor your garden once or twice a week.” Be Proactive Tiddens is taking preventive measures before critters can damage the Garden’s new spring plantings. “We …
Type: Plant Info
… The itsy bitsy spider Photo by Lois Cinert DNA testing is helping to sort out some of the more crowded and confusing orchid genera, like Pleurothallis . …
Type: Plant Info
