… Queen Elizabeth grandiflora rose ( Rosa 'Queen Elizabeth') is covered in luminous, pink, double flowers and has a moderate fragrance from early summer until frost. Pointed tea rose-like buds are … on long stems on a plant maturing at 6 feet in height. Its foliage is disease resistant, and the rose performs best in moderately fertile soils with adequate water, responding well to …
Type: Garden Guide Plant
… ‘Weeping Willie’ is a weeping form with blue-green, almost turquoise needles with an open habit. It sends out … it a very graceful appearance. The cones on the species are interesting – they hang downward and each cone scale has a three-pointed bract. Douglas fir is native to the Rocky Mountains and along the Pacific Coast. In the Pacific coastal regions, it can attain heights of up to 250'. …
Type: Garden Guide Plant
… Growing 15 feet tall with a similar spread, fullmoon maple has a spherical growth habit and beautiful leaves, similar to those of Japanese maple, rounded with up to 11 sharply pointed lobes. It makes a magnificent specimen plant. Its flowers, which are tiny and purplish-red, are produced in April. Fullmoon maple is a relative of the Japanese maple and has performed well in the harsh climate of northern …
Type: Garden Guide Plant
… Narcissus ‘Martinette’ is in Division 8. It stands 14 - 16 inches high and blooms in early to mid spring with 4 -5 flowers on each stem. The petals are lemon yellow and broad with a small point at the tip. The corona is bright orange and cup shaped. It was …
Type: Garden Guide Plant
… Narcissus ‘Petit Four’ is in Division 4. It blooms in mid spring with 4½ inch flowers in which only the cup is doubled. … greenish white with a small point on the tip. The corona is cup shaped, opening light yellow and maturing to a light yellowish pink with a touch of light yellow at the rim. The cup encloses 6 segments of the same color, each with a single lobe which is longer than the corona and protrudes outward from the cup, tapering into a tubular shape and fading to a yellowish …
Type: Garden Guide Plant
… so gives a dark wing tip appearance. These birds were introduced to this country in the 70’s and are now found over most of the United States. …
Type: Birding
… Architectural masterpieces, local history, and beauty provided by wooded ravines and vantage points that overlook Lake Michigan: these are the magnets that attract people …
Type: Item Detail
… If you're a Cubs fan and have been to Wrigley Field then you will have seen this vine growing in the outfield. It's also the ivy of the Ivy League. Boston ivy is a fast-growing deciduous vine of the grape family from eastern Asia. It has deeply toothed, … adhesive disks to surfaces but these disks can be very damaging to wooden surfaces, shingles and masonry and tuck-pointing. The leaves often drop off before the leaf stalks, leaving an …
Type: Garden Guide Plant
… the unique opportunity to go to the Portland Japanese Garden for a week-long training session—and what a week it was! I arrived in Portland in early November, having endured scarily bumpy … of Japan. One of the two pines species most popular in a Japanese garden, the black pine is symbolic of the seashore and referred to as on-matsu (the male pine), because of masculine … and pavilions take precedence and frame vistas, while stone courtyards mark transition points between the architectural environment and nature. This garden gives a wonderful sense of …
Type: Blog
… until August, with 3-inch spheres of starry pink flowers. The structure of the tiny flowers is complex, with 5 reflexed pink sepals and 5 forward-pointing petals. Each petal has a hood at the base and a little curled horn, giving the flower the appearance of a crown. The fruit is a soft, warty …
Type: Garden Guide Plant
