… This thyme cultivar is used as a culinary herb. It can also be used as an evergreen ground cover (it will tolerate …
Type: Garden Guide Plant
… and the bad-tasting compounds in the leaves deter deer from browsing its blooms. The species is hardy to zone 7 and will not survive winters in Chicago. …
Type: Garden Guide Plant
… Vernonia lettermannii , known as Letterman's ironweed, is covered with purple flowers in September and October produced by a rounded 4' x 4' herbaceous …
Type: Garden Guide Plant
… white flowers in May are followed by abundant and persistant red fruit. Fall leaf color is burgundy to bronze. Viburnums are a versatile genus of multi-stemmed shrubs that are well …
Type: Garden Guide Plant
… FIREWORKS™ arrowwood viburnum is notable for its colunar habit and ruby red fall color, which make it particularly useful in …
Type: Garden Guide Plant
… slot). Field Trip workshops must be booked a minimum of three weeks in advance; full payment is due at time of scheduling. Select Workshop Topic upon checkout. Please call our field trip registrar if you have any registration questions: (847) 835-6801 Once your program is booked, a Garden educator will reach out to arrange delivery of materials and online meeting … you to figure out why. NGSS: K-ESS2-2, 1-LS1-1, 2-LS2-1 Flower Lab (Grades 2 – 4) What is the reason for a flower, and how does it do its job? Watch a gorgeous video of blooming plants …
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… Nymphaea Waterlily is very fond of floating in a sunny pond. Tantalizing little creature, likes to grow where one can't reach her. – Elizabeth Gordon Nymphaea is the beautifully named genus for about half of all waterlily species. (The Nymphaeaceae family … 'Plum Crazy' Hardy : Nymphaea 'Sunfire' Small or Large The most important size to consider is the spread—these long-armed plants can reach out many feet in all directions. Small : Nymphaea …
Type: Plant Info
… the Netherlands, where tulips were introduced in the sixteenth century. The environment there is ideal for growing tulips. It’s mostly surrounded by sea, and has well-drained soil, long days, … and winters and can have extreme temperatures in both seasons. Often, what kills a bulb is a combination of stressors like our wet summers and our tendency to cut back foliage too soon … T. fosteriana . Some standouts: T. clusiana ‘Lady Jane’ and ‘Cynthia’ and T. acuminata , which is known for its flame-like blooms. Second , help your tulips recover and recharge after …
Type: Blog
… whose autumnal leaf drop naturally enriches the soil. More than Plants Share this Woods Spring is when more than 100 migrating and resident birds pass through, seeking shelter, insects, seeds, … bells plus scalloped foliage reminiscent of columbine mean false rue anemone. Wild geranium is easy to spot, but the familiar pink flowers will arrive only after the clumps of foliage have … below the soil. Invasive Plants Destroy Diversity In the McDonald Woods, what you don’t see is as important as what you do see. The open spaces; the absence of garlic mustard, which used to …
Type: Walks
… steep prairie hillsides and swampy lowlands as a Plants of Concern volunteer, his mission is, at once, straightforward and profound: find endangered plants, count them, and alert the land … “I was surprised at just how much of a personal investment I’ve taken. When a plant population is doing well, I feel like a proud parent.” Plants of Concern—a community science program at the … ). Once classified as endangered in Illinois, it grows in swampy, hard-to-reach places and is easy to overlook. After volunteers began reporting swollen sedge populations in new locations, …
Type: Blog
