… New! For those familiar with the use of colored pencil on paper, here is the opportunity to work with the new popular substrate, Mylar film. Colored pencils on film … depict the rich, glowing color of florals, with the potential for adding the illusion of depth and atmospheric fade. Techniques covered include working on both sides of the film, grisaille, and background painting. Please bring a printed photograph of your botanical subject or bring a …
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… If not done in late March, there is still time to sow seeds indoors for warm-season vegetables like tomato and pepper plants and summer-blooming annuals. Most seeds take six to eight weeks from germination to outdoor …
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… mallows, are prized for their use as structure in a perennial border. Everything about them is large, from their rich green, three-lobed lobed leaves to their immense flowers that appear … mid to late summer. ‘Rosina’ POLYPETITE® Rose-of-Sharon has a neat, compact rounded habit and large, cup-shaped, ruffled lavender-pink flowers. It was a selection made at Polly Hill … reproductive structures in the middle, making them appear quite tropical. They prefer moist, and even wet, soils but can manage in average garden soils with regular deep watering in hot dry …
Type: Garden Guide Plant
… their jagged petals which look like they have been cut with pinking shears. Spangled star pink is a hardy compact perennial 5- to 7-inches tall that produces clove-scented red flowers with two pale pink spots on each petal in May and June. They are easy to grow in average, alkaline soils in full sun, but require good drainage—plants may die out in the center in soggy soil. Cut them back after blooming, and they may rebloom in late summer or early fall. …
Type: Garden Guide Plant
… This oval-shaped tree ranges in size from 35 to 50 feet in height. The common persimmon is a good plant for a naturalistic garden. Small, fragrant, white flowers appear in late May. … edible after a hard frost in the fall, but the very astringent skin should be avoided. Male and female trees are required for fruit production. Distinctive bark has dark squarish blocks, and the tree itself has an interesting branch pattern. On this member of a mostly tropical …
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… cover well-branched plants in spring on this nonhardy biennial bedding plant. This cultivar is unique in that it does not require exposure to cool temperatures (vernalization) before it … year, plants develop extensive root systems to store the nutrients needed to produce flowers and seed the second year. After the seeds ripen and disperse, the plant dies. …
Type: Garden Guide Plant
… flowers in April. 'Queen of the Pinks' has pale pink flowers. They are good for mass planting and reliably hardy in the Chicago area. In its native habitat it frequently is found growing underneath the canopy of deciduous trees with deep root systems like oaks that … By the time the trees leaf out the bulbs have completed their growth cycle for the year and have begun to go dormant. …
Type: Garden Guide Plant
… Iris orchioidesa varies from a deep to a pale yellow with a darker signal and crest. The flowers have distinctive wings at the hafts (the narrow constricted part of the standards and falls near the center of the flower). The stems stand 6 to 12 inches high with up to 3 flowers each in early to mid spring. This is a Juno iris from the Tien Shan region in Cetral Asia. The name Iris was taken from the Greek …
Type: Garden Guide Plant
… This European native is a perennial bulb that has conical racemes of tightly packed, violet blue, white edged flowers … can be grown in average, well-drained soil in full sun to part shade, planted about 3” deep and 3” apart in fall. The ground should be kept moist during the spring growing season; watering … go dormant in summer. In autumn, new leaves will appear. Naturalizes by both bulb offsets and may self-seed. …
Type: Garden Guide Plant
… 'Cecile') features funnel-shaped, salmon-pink flowers with a prominent yellow flair in spring and beautiful red leaves in the fall. As with other cultivars out of the Knapp-Hill/Exbury breeding programs, it is important to site Cecile rhododendron in the landscape so that it receives good air movement, which decreases …
Type: Garden Guide Plant
