… Bellevalia pycnantha is a little known bulbous plant named after Pierre Richer de Belleval, who founded the Montpelier Botanic Garden in 1593. It resembles a larger grape hyacinth, growing to 12 inches high. From March through June it produces beautiful dark bluish purple flowers edged …
Type: Garden Guide Plant
… Chocolate Cherry Pepper This new pepper has green- and white-striped sweet peppers that turn to chocolate and red when mature. The foliage on the plant is also variegated with yellow and green leaves. The small fruits are perfect for snacking, …
Type: Garden Guide Plant
… Geum canadense is commonly known as white avens. It stands 18 – 30 inches tall and blooms in early to late June with small half inch white flowers on hairy stems. Plant it in light shade or …
Type: Garden Guide Plant
… This plant grows up to 30 inches high and wide, with long leaves produced in a basal rosette. Sea lavender is a good filler plant for the perennial border. Small blooms develop on the multi-branched …
Type: Garden Guide Plant
… To the delight of butterflies, honeybees, and hummingbirds, velvet purply-blue flowers on 1-foot … nonhardy sage from June until frost. Indigo Spires salvia ( Salvia 'Indigo Spires') is a chance hybrid of Salvia longispicata and Salvia farinacea ; it was discovered by staff at …
Type: Garden Guide Plant
… moisture, this slow growing compact form ultimately reaches 40' high and 10' wide. Hardy to USDA zone 3, this spruce is useful as a vertical blue accent or grouped as a screen or hedge. …
Type: Garden Guide Plant
… groundcover in summer followed by brilliant red leaf color in fall. Needs full sun but is not fussy as to soils as long as they are well drained. Rabbits and deer avoid the foliage. Does not tolerate …
Type: Garden Guide Plant
… Cool Wave® Sunshine 'N Wine Spreading Pansy This is an excellent choice for spring gardens, containers, and hanging baskets. The plants show superior cold hardiness and performance. They easily spread to 24" or more while adding constant deep red and yellow color from early spring through May. …
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… Description: The Garden's largest member of the swallow family is the purple martin. Look for them flying around or perched on the large, aluminum birdhouses on … locations around the Garden. Anyone walking the Garden perimeter in spring and summer is sure to notice the mini apartment complexes filled with purple birds flying in and out of their homes and calling “pew-pew.” These purple martins, fascinating to watch, would not be here if it weren’t for the man-made apartments carefully tended by Garden …
Type: Birding
… White trout lily is one of the most common native wildflowers in woodlands of the Midwest. A member of the lily family, it forms large mats, and it will persist in spite of disturbances to the soil. Each plant sends up a 6-8 inch pale red-violet stalk topped by a nodding white … species covers large patches in McDonald Woods, and sometimes pops up in the parking lots. It is an ephemeral species, which means that the foliage will die back during the summer and the …
Type: Garden Guide Plant
