… Light blush buds mature to long tubed, very fragrant, white flowers from mid-summer up to the first frost of fall. The sweet fragrance is strongest in evenings and early mornings. This is a great plant to attract pollinators of all sorts to the garden. This annual native to …
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… Iris orchioidesa varies from a deep to a pale yellow with a darker signal and crest. The flowers have distinctive wings at the hafts (the narrow constricted part of the standards and … flower). The stems stand 6 to 12 inches high with up to 3 flowers each in early to mid spring. This is a Juno iris from the Tien Shan region in Cetral Asia. The name Iris was taken from the Greek …
Type: Garden Guide Plant
… Large green leaves only give away the genus by the unique way they are clustered at the nodes on the upright stem. This distinctly upright prayer plant is topped by bright red showy bracts surrounding the small white flowers. Like other members of …
Type: Garden Guide Plant
… EUPHORIA™ Ruby Joe Pye Weed EUPHORIA™ Ruby Joe pye weed is much like the tradition native Joe pye weed but starts blooming earlier in the spring and goes later in the … is shorter and less floppy but still has big pink blooms with textured foliage. Archived Copy: This content was captured before February 2022, and is no longer being updated. …
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… This plant forms a dense mound in the garden, growing about 12 inches in height. Site lady's mantle in the front of a shady border. … foliage in late spring. With its beautiful, velvety, grayish-green leaves, this perennial is a real star in the shade garden. Archived Copy: This content was captured before February …
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… numbers of orange flowers with yellow centers are produced atop flowering stems just above the height of the foliage on this lily. The dark green strap-like leaves are evergreen and tolerate very low light and humidity levels. This is an ideal houseplant, in other words. Flowering stems need the cooler temperatures found in …
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… This selection of different cultivars of Lenten rose contains plants that produce creamy white, rose, and purple (almost black) flowers, often with purple dots on the sepals. The showy parts of the "flower" are actually sepals, and they will remain on the … exceptionally mild winter, the foliage will remain evergreen in Chicago gardens. This species is widespread from northern Greece and Turkey eastward to the Caucasus region. Across this …
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… The Hedge Maple is native to most of Europe (in Scotland, it is the only native maple) and has been naturalized in North America and New Zealand. It is a slow … feet with a similar spread and is generally used in hedges or as a street tree. Archived Copy: This content was captured before February 2022, and is no longer being updated. …
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… Jackson aloe, or Aloe jacksonii , is native to Ethiopia and was first collected by T.H.E. Jackson in 1943. Since its discovery it … It is considered a dwarf form, having training branches only four to eight inches long. The leaves are a dull green, with white spots, and the leaves tend to remain clustered toward the branch apex. This is a sprawling aloe, creating a dense mound. It is known as a cremnophyte, or a plant that …
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… White plume euphorbia ( Euphorbia fulgens ‘Alba’) is an upright, arching, sun-loving shrub that displays creamy white flowers throughout the winter, given frost-free conditions. Produced at the nodes all along its wand-like stems, the … to wear gloves, because the sap is a skin irritant that can cause a nasty rash. Archived Copy: This content was captured before February 2022, and is no longer being updated. …
Type: Garden Guide Plant
