… has purple flower spike which later turn into white berries. Overall Silver Dragon will grow to be about ten inches tall and about eighteen inches wide. It is useful for edging paths and beds and for providing an accent in shady areas. Although it …
Type: Garden Guide Plant
… very double flowers that are quartered like English roses, with the reverse of the petals is a slightly darker magenta. Starting in late spring or early summer, it'll repeat in flushes throughout the growing season. It's a vigorous grower, reaching up to 12 feet, so it's great for trellises, arbors, and arches. Just give it full sun, good rich …
Type: Garden Guide Plant
… in bristles. The branches are also covered with red bristles. The leaves are pinnate, with 4 to 5 pairs of narrow, glossy leaflets. It grows in boggy areas in its native habitat. Fall color is a mix of red and purple. …
Type: Garden Guide Plant
… decomposition. Observe food scraps decomposing in bags in various conditions. Discuss how food is a problem in the waste stream and ways we can help save the planet by composting. Learn how to set up and manage a successful compost pile in your school garden or at home. And by the way, …
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… Although the foliage makes this tidy plant an attractive addition to the shade garden, the flowers of Miyazaki hairy toad lily ( Tricyrtis hirta 'Miyazaki') are so … where its orchidlike flowers can be appreciated, as an accent plant or container plant. This is a fall-blooming perennial with striking, unusual flowers. …
Type: Garden Guide Plant
… green foliage" this non-hardy perennial thrives in well drained soils, full sun and moderate to low fertility throughout the growing season. Effective in containers and fronts of flower beds where the shorter stature fulfills a design aesthetic. Insect and disease resistant it is also favorite of a number of bees, other nectar feeding insects and hummingbirds. Acrid …
Type: Garden Guide Plant
… Chinese ironweed is a tall perennial that bears masses of purple flowers with hot pink eyes in the late summer and … height and the late season pop of color can be appreciated. It can be pruned in early summer to reduce height. …
Type: Garden Guide Plant
… has a unique flower in a rainbow of colors that resemble ice cream cones. The overall habit is strong, upright and mid-sized for a middle layer in the perennial garden. Minimal maintenance, fertilizer and watering is required once established. …
Type: Garden Guide Plant
… and August. Flowers and stems are ideal size and strength for the cut flower industry. This is the first sunflower that is downy mildew resistant - a breakthrough in plant breeding! …
Type: Garden Guide Plant
… On Chicago’s Southeast Side, a wetland scarred by decades of steelmaking has yet to heal. But against the odds, a single endangered flower has bloomed here. The only wild … after wild populations of the species were last seen in Illinois. The bloom this past spring is a small but striking sign of recovery. Its presence is thanks to the Chicago Botanic Garden … decades. It couldn’t have survived Big Marsh’s original wetland, but slag had transformed the site into something resembling the daisy’s almost nonexistent native habitat. This was a rare …
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