… This shrub grows to a height of 7 feet with full sun to partial shade and moderate moisture conditions. It has blue blooms in May and June. It belongs in a border. The fruit is attractive to birds. …
Type: Garden Guide Plant
… This low-growing evergreen ground cover needs moderate moisture conditions with full sun to partial shade to full shade. In late spring it produces white flowers. It is also an understory and resistant to deer. …
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… Huge dinner plate-sized, red-orange flowers to 11 inches in diameter feature yellow edges to the petals and undersides to make a very striking addition to the flower garden or bouquet. The flower shape is classified …
Type: Garden Guide Plant
… features thin, elegantly coiled creamy white florets in a flower with enough substance to stand up to the vagaries of fall weather in the Chicago region. In order to obtain the largest of flowers, the side flower buds should be removed - a process referred to …
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… Clematis 'Mrs. Cholmondeley' is a vigorous deciduous climber that grows 10 to 12 feet and produces 6 to 8-inch purplish blue flowers with blue and brown anthers in late spring to late summer. Plant it in full to partial sun and moist soil in a sheltered area to keep the …
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… Vernal or Ozark witch hazels, although native to the Ozark Plateau, are a welcome harbinger of spring. ‘Purple Ribbons’ is a medium-sized shrub or small tree with a round habit. Leaves are initially light green changing to a dark green then to yellow-orange in the fall. The flowers are small, fragrant thread-like lavender-purple petals …
Type: Garden Guide Plant
… across when fully open. The petals are overlapping and very slightly ruffled. The plant grows to 4 feet high and blooms in mid summer to early fall. It is attractive to hummingbirds and bees while resistant to deer. The name Hibiscus came from the Greek work …
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… Paeonia suffruticosa, ‘Yae-Zakura’ is covered in double soft pink flowers up to 9” across. This cultivar can eventually reach 7’ x 7’ in size but is slow to establish. Young plants should be planted 4” – 6” deeper than they were previously grown – one … few times planting ‘deep’ is recommended. The extra depth provides the woody part of the peony to produce its own roots. Propagators bud/graft tree peony buds onto the root systems of …
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… Snowbelle mock orange bears large fragrant double white flowers in May to June. It is a compact deciduous shrub, growing to about 3-4 feet in height and in width but with an open habit and gently arching branches. While this shrub is adaptable to a range of conditions, it prefers sunny locations, rich, consistently moist soils, but cannot …
Type: Garden Guide Plant
… Minnesota Snowflake mock orange bears large fragrant double white flowers in May to June. It is a tall open shrub, growing to about eight feet in height and in width with gently arching branches. While this shrub is adaptable to a range of conditions, it prefers sunny locations and consistently moist soils, but cannot …
Type: Garden Guide Plant
