… Justicia brandegeeana is known colloquially as shrimp plant due to the resemblance of its flowers to those tiny …
Type: Garden Guide Plant
… at the flowers on this plant and you'll see that each flower has five petals but the flower is symmetrical. If you happen to be here when it has seed pods you'll see that they have a …
Type: Garden Guide Plant
… flowers, followed by yellow fruit in the fall that persist into the winter. This cultivar is noted for good disease resistance by the University of Illinois Extension. Crabapples are …
Type: Garden Guide Plant
… and are followed in the fall by gold fruit that persist into winter. This dwarf cultivar is reported as highly disease resistant by the University of Illinois Extension. Crabapples are …
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… The flesh-pink buds of Charlotte crabapple open to double pale pink flowers. The fruit is dark green and large (greater than 1 inch in diameter) for crabapples. In the fall the foliage …
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… Brazilian firecracker vine, also known as cigar flower and candy corn plant, is a twining vine from South America that can grow to 12 feet long with support. The tiny tubular …
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… Parrotia persica or Persian ironwood is a small, single trunk, deciduous tree eventually growing 20-40 feet tall (but typically 10 …
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… 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, …
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… jet? And the flowerheads, perhaps they look like fox tails? Piglet dwarf fountain grass is a diminutive form of the very popular Hameln fountain grass. Piglet grows to about 18 inches …
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… end of a long lax stem and floating just above the water surface. In the center of each flower is a cluster of showy stamens. Waterlilies have been cultivated since at least 2,000 B.C. and are …
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