… JOY'S PRIDE™ redbud is a cultivar that features deep lavender blooms in spring before its heart-shaped foliage emerges. Dark purple seedpods appear in the fall and may persist into winter. This tree is a Chicagoland Grows® selection. Chicagoland Grows® is a plant introduction …
Type: Garden Guide Plant
… Aloe bulbillifera gets its name from the bulbils produced freely near the bracts at the base of the flowers. This species is stemless, the leaves forming a dense rosette from which the flowering spikes emerge in …
Type: Garden Guide Plant
… The flora of Madagascar is as different from the flora of Illinois as possible, and silver thicket is a real curiosity. The entire shrub is a mass of thorns. There are no leaves, just pale, frosty blue-green branches and twigs that have turned into sharp-pointed thorns. This makes the plants impervious to hot desert sun and grazers. It also makes it very difficult …
Type: Garden Guide Plant
… Small, tubular green-and-white flowers are produced on spikes rising from the clump of fat green leaves with translucent windows at their tips in midwinter. The windows … matching the surrounding soils; in the lower light levels of homes, they frequently lose this characteristic. This plant is very closely related to the genera Gasteria and Aloe , which are also from South Africa. …
Type: Garden Guide Plant
… Large heads of blue-mauve flowers (the closest to true blue in the species) perfume the surrounding landscape with the sweet scent of garden phlox from July to October. This plant is highly attractive to pollinating insects and hummingbirds but prone to powdery mildew on the …
Type: Garden Guide Plant
… Description: If this state-endangered owl is seen at the Garden, it is either flying over, or roosting on the ground, in the Dixon Prairie. …
Type: Birding
… This chrome-yellow clump-forming upright perennial is a superb addition to the perennial border, either as an accent or as a "see-through" plant near the front. The deep …
Type: Garden Guide Plant
… Crown-of-thorns is a slow-growing tropical shrub with a rambling growth habit. Plants can grow to 3 feet by 3 feet on this Madagascar native that may be extinct in the wild. Its 5- to 6-sided fleshy, thorny stems are adorned with short, oblong leaves. The …
Type: Garden Guide Plant
… Iris ‘Guise’ is a Standard Dwarf Bearded Iris which stands 12 in high. The standards are cream colored blending to violet. The falls are lavender with yellow edges and … a symbol of royalty throughout history was an adaptation of the iris flower. Archived Copy: This content was captured before February 2022, and is no longer being updated. …
Type: Garden Guide Plant
… Bright yellow trumpet daffodils come into flower early in the season, April in the Chicago region. The color is described as "much brighter than vivid yellow" in the technical description of this cultivar. Archived Copy: This content was captured before February 2022, and is no longer …
Type: Garden Guide Plant
