… the florets have a very distinct shape, branching out in a unique manner. Lilium tsingtauense is native to China and Korea where the edible bulbs may be cooked and served in ways similar to potatoes. Although these bulbs are rarely available commercially, but their unsurpassed grace …
Type: Garden Guide Plant
… Bronzeleaf rodgersflower is native to woodlands in Japan and Korea, and unlike most Rodgersias it can tolerate boggy areas … time, via slow-creeping rhizomes. The large, very handsome leaves emerge bronze-green, mature to green, and turn a rich bronze red in fall. When and if it blooms, the flowers are not …
Type: Garden Guide Plant
… Dragon's Blood is an old reliable variety of sedum. We had this growing in the old Home Landscape Demonstration … where the new greenhouses are now being built. This mat-forming perennial takes full sun to partial shade. It produces clusters of starry cherry-red blooms in July and August. The tiny … along the nodes into patches a foot or more across. Older stems may become scraggly and need to be pinched back. Because they are so low-growing, they are suitable for a rock garden or a …
Type: Garden Guide Plant
… tubular in form and are borne in large panicles. While the common name of the plant has come to define a shade of pale purple, some species and hybrids have pink or white blossoms. Lilacs begin to set buds for the following year shortly after they finish blooming; if pruning is desired, it should be done immediately after flowering to maintain flower production the next …
Type: Garden Guide Plant
… There is much cheer to be found in the dainty flutterings of a cyclamen. Such springlike blossoms … cyclamen was named by the Greeks, they called on the word for circular, kyklos , referring to the shape of the tuber. Victorians believed the cyclamen spoke of diffidence or timidity. We … splotched bicolors. Petals are frilled, folded, crested, doubled, and often fragrant. Foliage is an attractive mound, often with silver tracery on top and burgundy beneath. To grow a cyclamen …
Type: Plant Info
… I maintain around five miles of restored shoreline at the Chicago Botanic Garden. My role is primarily leading and assisting the seasonal aquatics crew with fieldwork during the growing … monitoring. Paired with fieldwork, my role includes surveying the lakes and shorelines to monitor species diversity, garden aesthetics, and shoreline stability. …
Type: Staff bio
… This cute, inconspicuous prairie plant is one of the few non-tropical members of the sandalwood family. It produces single-stemmed … in poor, gravelly soils. By June they are usually overwhelmed by taller prairie plants, not to be noticed again until the following spring. …
Type: Garden Guide Plant
… on bright windowsills with almost no water during the summer, this long-lived plant continues to reward such inattention with masses of blooms. The variety name is of dubious validity, but it differs from the species with larger leaves and more flowers. …
Type: Garden Guide Plant
… Tamarack or American Larch, is one of the deciduous conifers that they drop their leaves in fall. Early spring growth brings … young bark beneath. Some of the Canadian First Peoples used the wood for snowshoes. Adapted to acidic very moist soils. …
Type: Garden Guide Plant
… 'Mirranda' is a diminutive cultivar of mountain hydrangea with a mature size of just around four feet. In … of the Chicago region they are pink. As the flowers age their color changes from light blue to mauve, creamy white and finally a pale pink (in acidic soils). The leaves are a yellowish …
Type: Garden Guide Plant
