… Slender, wiry stalks reach up to 18 inches tall and spread up to a foot wide. Blue flax is a pretty garden plant as well as field crop. Hundreds of tiny blue flowers, each about 3/4 …
Type: Garden Guide Plant
… This is a tall perennial that can reach heights of 8 feet’ with a 4-foot spread. It blooms in mid to …
Type: Garden Guide Plant
… days and cooler temperatures of fall, the leaves turn a reddish-purple shade. This hydrangea is a great plant for moist soils and partially shaded locations. Deer and rabbits, unfortunately …
Type: Garden Guide Plant
… Golden Seal is a native perennial in the buttercup family. It grows 6 to 12 inches tall with a hairy stalk …
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… buds open to incredibly full and fragrant pale pink flowers in spring. Centennial Blush™ is a prolific bloomer, with flower buds formed at almost every node. Its attractive green leaves …
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… produce smaller but more numerous fronds with a bushier habit than the wild species, which is native to Africa. Common in cultivation thanks to development of successful tissue culture …
Type: Garden Guide Plant
… When working with a single material, look for uniformity of size and color. The idea is to show a subject off to its best advantage en masse. Direction Attach materials … or wooden wreath base in one direction, clockwise only—the look of an “endless” wreath is much simpler to achieve than a wreath that travels in opposite directions. Dried grasses … so they'll last for several years. Birch bark wreath A few steps down from the gourd wreath is another Nancy Clifton creation, made from birch bark. Its natural curl lent itself to a …
Type: Plant Info
… over the flowers in search of nectar all summer long. A native perennial, butterfly weed is found in prairies, restored natural areas, embankments, along roadsides and railroad tracks, … Magnet for Monarchs A member of the milkweed genus Asclepias (uh-SKLEE-pee-us), butterfly weed is a host plant for the female monarch butterfly, which may lay its eggs on the underside of the … most other milkweeds, butterfly weed does not produce thick, white sap. Instead, the sap is thin and almost clear. Butterfly weed ranges in height from 1 to 3 feet tall, which makes it a …
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… The end of the growing season is often a bittersweet experience for gardeners. It signals the end of months of work—but also … blue color well into winter. Elijah Blue blue fescue ( Festuca ovina glauca 'Elijah Blue') is the bluest of the fescues and retains its compact form all season. Blue oat grass ( … flowers complement the slender blue-to-silver foliage; in winter, the blue foliage alone is the attraction. Artemisia stellerana 'Silver Brocade', the hardy dusty miller, features …
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… king trumpet mushrooms, carnations – fresh cuts Sustainability, reimagined The Last Show is a thoughtful reminder of the Garden’s commitment to sustainability, celebrating renewal … The Final Cut , features a coppiced willow stool—pruned year after year until its surface is covered in scars. Removed at last, the stump hovers above a bed of disbud spider mums grown by … Coppiced willow stool, disbud spider mums Playing with dead things For Toth, the project is as personal as professional. “I feel like a kid in our Nature Play Garden where I sometimes …
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