… New! Watercolor is a luminous medium perfect for capturing foliage and flowers. Learn how to mix colors such as the bright greens and fluorescent colors found in the garden. You will work in the traditional English style using dry brush. Watercolors and paper will be provided by the instructor. You will work from live specimens. Prerequisite: …
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… stand 2 to 3 feet tall with fragrant, silvery green foliage. 'Coronation Gold' is sterile and will not crowd out its neighbors like other yellow seed-grown varieties. It is attractive to butterflies while resistant to deer, rabbits, and drought. This is a favorite as a cut flower and is also excellent as a dried flower. In 1993 ‘Coronation Gold’ received the Award of Garden …
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… maroon. This cultivar is unique in that it blooms the first year from seed (all other species and cultivars are biennials and will only bloom the second year), and that the flowers face all directions (typically the flowers all tend to one side of the …
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… dark wine-red flowers that gradually fade to dark green. The dark green foliage is evergreen and overall the plant can form a mound about 18 inches tall and up to two feet wide. It prefers moist cool shady conditions, so is well-suited to understory locations and shady border areas. …
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… later turn into white berries. Overall Silver Dragon will grow to be about ten inches tall and about eighteen inches wide. It is useful for edging paths and beds and for providing an accent in shady areas. Although it tolerates full sun it may require …
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… Firs are evergreen pyramidal trees native to Europe, northern Africa, Asia, and North America. They can be distinguished from other evergreens by the long, flat needles. They require full sun to part shade in moist, well-drained soil and prefer colder climates; they do not flourish in heat, dry conditions, or air pollution. … older branches are removed. Archived Copy: This content was captured before February 2022, and is no longer being updated. …
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… 'Keithsform' is a cross between the Shantung Maple (Acer truncatum) and the Norway Maple ( Acer platanoides ). It is a rounded, upright grower that can reach a height of 35 feet with a spread of 25 feet. Its dark green lobed foliage turns bright orange and red in the fall. It is hardy to Zone 5, prefers full sun, slightly acidic soils but will adapt to other soil types. Archived Copy: This content was captured before February 2022, and is no longer being updated. …
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… ( Acer griseum x maximowiczianum ) is a very rare maple that features beautiful red fall color and attractive cinnamon stick-like exfoliating bark. This small tree is a hybrid of two Chinese … editorial committee reversed earlier judgements on the nomenclature for paperbark maples, and recommends that all Acer maximowicizianum be referred to as Acer nikoense . Archived Copy: This content was captured before February 2022, and is no longer being updated. …
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… Agastache rugosa ) ‘Golden Jubilee’ is similar to the anise hyssop except it has golden leaves and violet blue flowers. This beautiful, dependable plant was named in honor of Queen Elizabth’s … its leaf color contrasts with other plants such as low-growing nepetas. It has a thin leaf and wilts if not watered. Archived Copy: This content was captured before February 2022, and is no longer being updated. …
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… Aloe 'Delta Lights' flowers in December and January with orange tubular flowers tipped in green on relatively thin stems. Throughout the … leaves grow in spirals around the center of the plant. Plant it in well-drained soil and grow in sunny locations for the best results. Archived Copy: This content was captured before February 2022, and is no longer being updated. …
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