… This vine grows to a height of 25 feet with full sun to partial shade and moderate moisture conditions. Blue fruits arrive after flowering in May and June. It is attractive to birds. …
Type: Garden Guide Plant
… This ground cover grows to a height of 6 inches with full sun to partial shade and moderate moisture conditions. It has showy yellow blooms from March through June and is resistant to deer. …
Type: Garden Guide Plant
… This bulb grows to a height of 3 feet with full sun to partial shade and moderate moisture conditions. It has chartreuse and purple blooms from January to April. It is a specimen in a border. …
Type: Garden Guide Plant
… sit dozens of squat, thornless, gray-green cacti called Ariocarpus fissuratus . Native only to Mexico and southwestern Texas, they’ve been carefully tended by Chicago Botanic Garden … by collectors who either don’t know or don’t care that the plant is critically endangered. To meet that demand, unscrupulous plant dealers pay local people to collect the cacti, then try to slip them past U.S. Customs to feed an international black …
Type: Blog
… Acacia decora , commonly called showy wattle, is native to eastern Australia. It derives its species name from the plant's decorative qualities. This shrub grows in an erect or spreading shape from 9 to 12 feet in height, with variable gray-blue, spearhead-shaped foliage and reddish-brown ridged, … The phyllodes (flattened leaf stalks that function as leaves) are generally thin and grow up to 2 inches long with a prominent midvein. It produces profuse racemes of golden, ball-like, …
Type: Garden Guide Plant
… are downfacing with heavily reflexed petals curving backward. The blooms, which appear in mid to late summer, are attractive to humming birds. Citronella stands 3 to 4 feet high. This is an Asiatic hybrid. Asiatic lilies generally bloom earlier than other …
Type: Garden Guide Plant
… a semi dwarf shrub typically 6 ft. tall with a spread of 6 ft. The conical flowerheads are 6 to 12 inches with a mixture of showy but sterile flowers and smaller, fertile but non-showy ones. … overtones as they mature and continue blooms well into the fall. The name ‘The Swan’ may refer to the plant’s silhouette which resembles a swan flapping its wings, or it may refer to the fact that the emerging flowers are like an ugly duckling. The color of the flowers is not …
Type: Garden Guide Plant
… Lilium ‘Red Velvet’ has gorgeous deep-red blooms with recurved petals in late June to early July. The flowers are outfacing on stems that stand 3 to 5 feet high. Red Velvet belongs to the group of Asiatic lilies that generally bloom earlier than other lilies and have high bud …
Type: Garden Guide Plant
… blooms are very lightly spotted and downfacing with recurved petals on stems that stand 3 to 4 feet tall. It is attractive to hummingbirds, butterflies and bees. White Butterflies belongs to the group of Asiatic lilies which generally bloom earlier than other lilies and have high bud …
Type: Garden Guide Plant
… This perennial grows to a height of 1 foot in partial to full shade and moist soil conditions. It is a specimen in a border, a ground cover, or an understory plant, and it is resistant to deer. …
Type: Garden Guide Plant
