… Description: This elusive, medium-sized shorebird is known for its distinctive courtship flights at dusk in early May. It can be seen on the ground …
Type: Birding
… This is a small deciduous tree or large shrub that can grow to a height of 20 feet with a spread of 15 …
Type: Garden Guide Plant
… This is a large-flowered climber with yellow-green leaves that produces large, showy, double white, 4 …
Type: Garden Guide Plant
… Devil's walking stick is a wickedly thorny and exotic-looking woody plant native to woodland edges in eastern North … This species, also known as Hercules club,produces unbranched woody stalks 6 to 20 feet high and large 3-4 foot fronds of twice-compound leaves with toothed leaflets. The stalks and raches …
Type: Garden Guide Plant
… or Lenten roses are prized for their flowers which appear in late winter or early spring and are often the first flowers to appear in the Chicago garden. The foliage is leathery and dark green with finger-like clusters of serrated leaflets which are evergreen … cool, moist soils with a high organic content but are very adaptable requiring only that the site be well-drained. Typically they are planted in woodland settings under deciduous trees where …
Type: Garden Guide Plant
… best in soils with low fertility in full sun. A whole host of native insects in the wasp, bee, and fly families are fond of the nectar, while wild turkey, greater prairie-chicken, bobwhite quail, and mourning dove enjoy the ripe seeds. Like other members of this genus, the sap is a milky white color and contains a number of chemicals that rabbits and deer avoid. …
Type: Garden Guide Plant
… Europe or western Asia. It produces small white flowers, followed by almost black fruits. It is best suited for a naturalized setting at woodland's edge. Members of the genus Cornus , … welcome in the home garden for their multi-season interest -- be it flowers, fruit, foliage, and/or bark -- and their range of forms from small trees to suckering shrubs. The dominant display, however, …
Type: Garden Guide Plant
… Iris 'Shirabyoshi' has white falls with cream centers and a bright reddish purple eyelash pattern around the yellow signals. The standards are small and white with white style arms. It stands 33 inches high with multiple blooms on each stalk in … large, measuring 6 inches in diameter. The name “Shirabyoshi“ means white dancing girl. This is a pseudata iris, a cross between a Japanese iris ( Iris ensata ) and Iris pseudacorusa . These …
Type: Garden Guide Plant
… One of the most beautiful native trees, evergreen with straight trunk, conical crown, and very fragrant, very large, white flowers. The pyramidal southern magnolia does not get extremely large in most of its range. It is usually 50 ft. tall, rarely growing to 100 ft. They have a dense growth of smooth, leathery evergreen leaves that are alternate, 5–10 inches long, shiny on top and rusty below. Fragrant, creamy-white flowers, which discolor easily if bruised, appear on the …
Type: Garden Guide Plant
… Sawtooth oak takes its name from the appearance of its leaf margins. It is a member of the white oak group and bears acorns annually. A native of Asia, it was introduced to North America in 1862. The … 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 …
Type: Garden Guide Plant
