… As either a small, round-topped shrub or a desirable small tree, the red buckeye can reach a height of 8 feet with a similar spread. Its lustrous dark-green … in May. The brown seeds that mature in October look like the eye of a buck. Its fall color is another attractive feature of red buckeye. This tree is also known as A. pavia 'Koehnei'. Archived Copy: This content was captured before …
Type: Garden Guide Plant
… The giant wood fern or Goldie's wood fern is the largest of the Dryopteris ferns that are native to eastern north America where it thrives in moist, protected woodlands. This fern can grow to about 4 feet high and 6 feet wide with long dark green gracefully arching …
Type: Garden Guide Plant
… The Vaughn hawthorn is thought to be a cross between the Washington hawthorn and the Cockspur hawthorn. It is a medium tree with a rounded crown (30 feet x 30feet). In spring, fragrant white flowers bloom … red fruits that ripen in fall and remain throughout the winter. Birds find these attractive. This tree also has attractive red fall foliage. It can be used as specimen, hedge or screen, or …
Type: Garden Guide Plant
… petals. It stands 4 -5 ft high and blooms continuously from mid summer to early fall. It is attractive to hummingbirds while resistant to deer. This is a winter hardy hibiscus in zones 4 – 9. The name Hibiscus came from the Greek work ‘hibiskos” that meant “marshmallow.” The sticky root …
Type: Garden Guide Plant
… Wild or prairie petunia is a perennial species of gravelly or rocky areas in the eastern and central states. The leaves are narrow and very bristly, with long petioles. The five-lobed flowers do resemble pale lavender petunias, but this is in fact in the acanthus family, not related to true petunias. A pretty little plant, it …
Type: Garden Guide Plant
… Bullhead lily, also called yellow pond lily, is an aquatic native often founding floating in quiet ponds in the clearings of woods. Related to waterlilies, it has flat round leaves that float on the water. Flowers are large yellow globes atop a thick, upright stem. This subspecies is distinguished by having red markings in the throat of the flower - which you …
Type: Garden Guide Plant
… Seeing autumn squill in bloom in early September is always a surprise, because all of its cousins bloom in the spring. Numerous spikes of starry rosy to lavender flowers densely cover spikes to 10 inches … patches of it displayed in the Graham Bulb Garden and Landscape Garden. Honeybees swarm to this late bloomer. Archived Copy: This content was captured before February 2022, and is no …
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… Do you like blueberries? This is a blueberry bush, and if you're here in the spring you'll see the white flowers that turn into the blueberries in the summer months. …
Type: Garden Guide Plant
… 'Pachara Delight' is a classic "blue" orchid. The petals are a deep violet-blue and "tesselated"—spotted in a neat checkerboard pattern. … by the five rounded petals with a very small cup in the center. Northern gardeners like this species because it can thrive at lower temperatures than many other showy orchids since it …
Type: Garden Guide Plant
… This plant is commonly called a coral embers willow because of its coral colored branches that are visible when the leaves have fallen. The coral embers willow can be grown as a shrub by pruning it close to … be allowed to grow into a tree (up to 80’). This willow gets its name from the new growth that is a beautiful red in the winter. It blooms from April to May with white and brown flowers. …
Type: Garden Guide Plant
