… crabapple features showy rose-red flowers followed by burgundy fruit in the fall. Its foliage is red-green throughout the season and turns yellow in the fall. Crabapples are small flowering trees that provide a showy display in the spring landscape for 1 to 2 weeks. In addition to the eye-catching buds and flowers, their foliage, habit, and fruit make them attractive plants …
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… GOLDEN RAINDROPS® crabapple is notable for its distinctive deeply cut green foliage and its abundant golden yellow fruit, … are small flowering trees that provide a showy display in the spring landscape for 1 to 2 weeks. In addition to the eye-catching buds and flowers, their foliage, habit, and fruit make them attractive plants …
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… Variegated English oak is notable for the creamy margins on its classically lobed foliage. The genus Quercus includes more than 600 species of the oak tree, of which 90 are native to North America; the Chicago Botanic Garden's collection contains more than 60 varieties and over 1,000 individual trees. Twenty oak species are native to Illinois. Oaks are slow growing, long lived, hard wood trees that produce fruit we all know as …
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… and downfacing with recurved petals forming Turk's caps. When established, the stems stand 4 to 5 feet high with whorled leaves and as many as 20 or 30 blooms on a single stem. Martagon lilies are native to Europe where they grow on Alpine slopes at an elevation of 7000 feet. Of the lilies, they are … var. album received the Award of Garden Merit from the Royal Horticultural Society. Question: Is this a var or a cultivar?? Or are they 2 different species? …
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… The cultivar 'Memphis Memory' is a very pale pink lavender with a mild fragrance. The branched stems stand 25 inches tall and bear 2 to 3 flowers each in late spring to early summer. The thin, grass like foliage remains a highlight throughout the summer. Siberian …
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… petals that become more rich coral-pink as they unfurl. The flowers are very large, up to 6 inches across when fully open. The foliage is dark green and glossy on shrubs that, left unpruned, will reach 4 to 6 feet in height. Black spot may be a problem. Some dieback may occur in colder climates, so …
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… double pink flowers surrounded by glossy green, disease-resistant foliage. This cultivar is described as "self cleaning," which means gardeners don't need to spend time deadheading old flower heads. This cultivar, like many other disease-resistant landscape roses, comes to us from the breeding work of Dr. Werner Noak of Noak Rosen in Germany. Dr. Noak has dedicated …
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… Take your iPhone photography to the next level with a deeper focus on strong visual composition and professional-style … Botanic Garden. Learn practical post-processing techniques used by professional photographers to enhance color, contrast, and detail to make your images truly stand out. Each week, you will … then share and discuss images with helpful, encouraging critiques. A fully charged iPhone is required for this course. Dress for the weather. Expect moderate walking. Prerequisite: Basic …
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… Although it is common in prairies and sandy areas, Sorghastrum nutans the ornamental value of this grass has … grows in clumps about two feet tall. In mid-summer colorful plumes appear that extend two to three feet above the foliage on blue stems with hints of purple. The newly emerging flowers or … "glumes" are dark red and orange, with long hairs or "awns" and showy yellow pollen, maturing to golden yellow. The foliage ranges from green to powdery blue, becoming orange in autumn. …
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… This graceful evergreen has many uses ranging from a hedge to a specimen plant. The Canadian hemlock, native to eastern North America, is an extremely high-quality evergreen tree that performs well in Illinois. It has a pendulously … well-drained soils in full sun or partial shade, and will even tolerate full shade. Plant in a site protected from the wind. It can be pruned heavily in the spring for hedging. Small, oval …
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