… The Norway Maple is native to eastern and central Europe as well as southwest Asia. This cultivar is a medium sized deciduous tree that can reach a height of 50 feet with a narrower spread. It is extremely hardy and tolerant of a wide range of soil and moisture conditions. It is also …
Type: Garden Guide Plant
… This carnivorous perennial is native to the subtropical wetlands of the southeastern United States so it is not cold hardy here. It needs full sun to partial shade and moist soil conditions to reach a height of about 1 foot. The "trap" is not the plant's flower; it is a set of specialized leaves. It blooms with its true flowers …
Type: Garden Guide Plant
… Q. Last year, I planted beets from seeds and was very disappointed in the weak, spindly seedlings that emerged. Some of the beets never produced roots at all. I would like to try again. Any ideas? A. Beet seeds are actually clusters of seeds contained in very small dried fruits or berries. Because several seedlings can grow from each fruit, it is essential to thin the seedlings to 2 or 3 inches apart when they are just a few inches tall. …
Type: Plant Info
… The flesh-pink buds of Charlotte crabapple open to double pale pink flowers. The fruit is dark green and large (greater than 1 inch in diameter) for crabapples. In the fall the foliage turns shades of orange and red. Crabapples are small flowering trees that …
Type: Garden Guide Plant
… after a few days. Waterlilies are rhizomatous aquatic plants with about 50 species occurring in the wild, mostly found in the tropics of the Northern Hemisphere. They are characterized by round notched leaves that … end of a long lax stem and floating just above the water surface. In the center of each flower is a cluster of showy stamens. Waterlilies have been cultivated since at least 2,000 B.C. and are …
Type: Garden Guide Plant
… Kohleria are herbacious perennial plants in the gesneriad family native to tropical America. Kohleria ‘Designer Halloween’, bred in Taiwan, has flowers with orchid lobes. The throat is pale lime green, heavily spotted with purple. The dark green leaves have red-purple …
Type: Garden Guide Plant
… Tycoon is a lovely royal purple. It stands 38 inches high and blooms in late spring. In 1950 Tycoon was awarded Honorable Mention by the American Iris Society, and in 1951 it …
Type: Garden Guide Plant
… Velvet Night is a rich, dark, blue-violet with velvety falls. It stands 20 inches high and blooms in mid season. In 1963 Velvet Night was awarded Honorable Mention, and in 1969 it won the Morgan Award, the …
Type: Garden Guide Plant
… stately plants, hybrids of our native rose mallows, are prized for their use as structure in a perennial border. Everything about them is large, from their rich green, three-lobed lobed leaves to their immense flowers that appear … for a contrasting red eye. The blossoms have conspicuous columnar reproductive structures in the middle, making them appear quite tropical. The flowers are followed by attractive seed …
Type: Garden Guide Plant
… Parrotia persica or Persian ironwood is a small, single trunk, deciduous tree eventually growing 20-40 feet tall (but typically 10 … 15 feet tall. Apetulous flowers with dense, red stamens surrounded by brownish bracts appear in late winter to early spring before the foliage. Flowers are attractive on close inspection, … to be somewhat insignificant. Oval to oblong leaves (to 4 inches long) emerge reddish-purple in spring, mature to a lustrous, medium to dark green in summer and change to variable shades of …
Type: Garden Guide Plant
