… Geum rivale is commonly known as water avens. It is native to North America where it thrives on wet, boggy soils or swamps. It does well in in cool, wet areas where little else will thrive. It grows to 18 to 28 inches tall and blooms from late May to early August with 2 – 5 flowers per stem. The small, half inch flowers are reddish or orangey pink, nodding and bell shaped. It is hardy in …
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… Cannas can be described in three words: big, bold, and beautiful. Red Velvet canna lives up to those standards. It can … moist soil and remove dead flowers to encourage reblooming. Cannas are not hardy in the Chicago area; the bulbs should be dug up in the fall, stored in a cool, dry place during the …
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… Dicentra ‘Burning Hearts’ grows to 6 – 12 inches high with bluish gray green foliage that is fernlike and deeply cut. It blooms in mid spring with deep rose flowers lined with white which dangle from long, arching, leafless stems. The heart shaped flowers have an inner petal which protrudes from the bottom of each flower and …
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… Tubergen milk squill ( Scilla mischtschenkoana 'Tubergeniana') produces pale blue to milk-white flowers with the faintest of blue midribs on the flower petals. It is similar to Siberian squill, but there … stalks elongate to approximately 4 inches tall. This is a sterile cultivar, and increase in the garden is achieved slowly through production of bulb offsets, commonly referred to as …
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… drought tolerant Heuchera villosa hybrid which repeat blooms from early summer until frost. The flowers emerge a delicate pink and age to a darker rose. When finished blooming the flowers remain attached and dry as an attractive … inches tall, 20 inches wide and the flower scapes will increase the height to 20 inches when in bloom, and when the inflorescences dry in place. It prefers partial shade but will tolerate …
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… dark brown spots. Like most lilies it is fragrant but not overpoweringly so. It is attractive to hummingbirds, butterflies, and bees. White Henryi belongs to the group of Aurelian lily hybrids which generally bloom in July on stout stems supporting masses of flowers. They are among the hardiest and most disease …
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… The early creeping cotoneaster blooms somewhat earlier than the species and is of modestly larger size. Pink buds open to white blooms, followed by red fruit in the fall. It has a low spreading habit with branches that arch to the ground. Members of the …
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… Graceful spurge is a low-growing subshrub native to tropical America. It has been used successfully at the Chicago Botanic Garden as an annual to fill in spaces between perennials or annuals in flower borders and in containers. It takes full sun or …
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… Hibiscus syriacus 'Lucy' has showy rose pink flowers up to 4'' in diameter. The flowers are doubles with extra petals that create a peony-like effect. This …
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… Phlox PPHLO7301 is marketed as PAPARAZZI™ Angelina. It is similar to a moss phlox or creeping phlox and grows 8 -10 inches high, forming a dense mat of dark green foliage. It blooms in mid to late spring with a showy display of fragrant lavender flowers that have dark purple eyes. Plant it in full sun. It is hardy in zones 5 - 9 and attractive to butterflies. The genus name is from the Greek word phlox meaning flame in reference to the many bright colors …
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