… This mat-forming evergreen shrub needs full sun to partial shade and moderate moisture conditions to reach a height of 8 inches. It is a ground cover and resistant to deer. …
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… This tree grows to a height of 60 feet with full sun to partial shade and moderate moisture conditions. It is a specimen in a hedge and is resistant to deer. …
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… This perennial grows to a height of 3 feet with full sun to partial shade and moist soil conditions. It has white blooms from September to December and is a specimen. …
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… This weeping shrub, native to China, needs full sun to partial shade and moderate moisture conditions to reach a height of 15 feet. In May to June it produces showy lilac-purple blooms that attract …
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… Clematis 'Marie Boisselot', a vigorous deciduous climber, grows 8 to 10 feet and produces large, single, creamy white, 6 to 8-inch flowers with yellow centers in early summer to early fall. It flowers on old wood in the spring and then again on the new season's growth and …
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… African glory bower ( Clerodendrum splendens ) climbs up to 10 feet in height by twining around a support. The tips of the branches are graced with a … scarlet red flowers, forming a spectacular sight. This native of tropical West Africa begins to flower as soon as the days start to lengthen in late December and continues until sometime in May. It adapts well to the home …
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… ‘Autumn Bride’ is a mound-forming perennial that grows to a maximum height of 2 feet. Come fall, billowing fountains of small, white flowers cover … Bride'). This is a striking selection of Heuchera , with flower stalks gracefully waving up to 2 feet above the chartreuse-to-lime-colored fuzzy leaves. This selection of our native alumroot grows well in moderate to …
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… Summer snowflake ( Leucojum aestivum 'Gravetye Giant' ) is a bulbous perennial native to central Europe and the Mediterranean. It blooms in mid spring (April to May), bearing nodding, bell-shaped, white flowers atop arching, hollow stems. The … vase-shaped clump of foliage. Plant the bulbs in fall in well-drained soil in full sun to part shade 3 to 4 inches deep. Reliably hardy and long-lived in Chicago-area gardens, this …
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… catmint, flowering heavily from May until September with purplish-blue flowers. It grows to about three feet tall and wide and tolerates a wide range of soils and conditions requiring only plenty of sunshine to perform well. To encourage reblooming cut back very hard in early summer. This catmint is often used to fill …
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… Lavender to purple daisy flowers 1-1/2 inches across with gold centers are produced in September atop stout stems ranging in height from 3 to 6 feet on this hardy perennial that tolerates a wide range of soils. The lower leaves are up to a foot long; coarsely toothed and broadly ovate with a long winged petiole, the leaves become …
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