… With a fine rounded habit, it can grow to 35' or 45' in height. The foliage is a nice clean green. Small white, five-petaled flowers produced on last …
Type: Garden Guide Plant
… Dark pink shading to red flowers in hundreds are produced on Echium 'Red Rocket', a nonhardy biennial in the annual displays at the Chicago Botanic Garden. Fuzzy grey-green leaves are produced in a …
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… Purple-flecked white flowers are produced at the end of arching stems bearing chartreuse leaves in mid- to late fall. Plant this lily in moist humus-y soils and protect it from rabbits in early spring. …
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… Meadow anemone ( Anemone canadensis ), a perennial in the buttercup family, prefers moist soil, colonizing along rivers and low, moist meadows. … deeply cleft into five toothy lobes; leaves on the flowering stems, in opposite pairs, appear to encircle the stem. This rhizomatous perennial grows from 1 to 2 feet tall, and the flowers, …
Type: Garden Guide Plant
… Canary yellow single or double petaled flowers cover the mounded shape of this bush rose in late May to early June. It is among the first of the roses to come into flower at the Garden. Late fall …
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… Star, is a stunning subtropical shrub featuring pink-and-white balls of flowers from 6 to 10 inches across in winter. The foliage, to 6 inches in length, is greenish purple on the top of the leaf, and deep purple …
Type: Garden Guide Plant
… Named after the mythological Greek youth Narcissus, who fell in love with his own reflection in a pool and was transformed into a flower, these plants are easy-to-grow perennials commonly called narcissus. Although all narcissus grow from bulbs and produce …
Type: Garden Guide Plant
… Beautiful five-to-nine-lobed leaves emerge early. The plant grows 5 feet in 10 years. Use this Japanese maple as a specimen plant or train it as a bonsai. May and June …
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… Summer snowflake ( Leucojum aestivum 'Gravetye Giant' ) is a bulbous perennial native to central Europe and the Mediterranean. It blooms in mid spring (April to May), bearing nodding, bell-shaped, white flowers atop arching, hollow …
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… Lace Aloe, formerly known as Aloe aristata , was winner of the RSH Award of Garden Merit in 1994. It has been moved to its own genus, Aristaloe , where it is the only species. Recent genetic studies have shown …
Type: Garden Guide Plant
