… Lilium ‘Friso’ stands 3 to 4 feet tall with brilliant fuchsia flowers with crimson centers in July & August. The ends of the petals melt to white. The flowers are trumpet shaped and huge, measuring 8 inches across, and are … has won the North American Lily Society’s popularity poll for four years straight. Frisco is an Orienpet hybrid, a cross between an Oriental lily and a Trumpet lily which combines the …
Type: Garden Guide Plant
… Galaxy magnolia bears deep purplish red flowers late enough in spring to avoid frost damage. It has a single-stemmed upright, pyramidal habit. Members of the genus … Magnolia are known for the stunning beauty of their usually large flowers, which emerge prior to the foliage in spring, and are often fragrant. While shades of pink are the most common bloom … color, the Magnolia palette also includes white, yellows and purples. Another dominant feature is a prominent fruiting body of small follicles forming a cone-like shape. The species range from …
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… Yellow Lantern magnolia features fragrant yellow tulip-shaped blooms on a small to medium tree with a compact habit. Members of the genus Magnolia are known for the stunning beauty of their usually large flowers, which emerge prior to the foliage in spring, and are often fragrant. While shades of pink are the most common bloom … color, the Magnolia palette also includes white, yellows and purples. Another dominant feature is a prominent fruiting body of small follicles forming a cone-like shape. The species range from …
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… the head identify this caterpillar as a true armyworm ( Mythimna unipuncta ), almost identical to the fall armyworm ( Spodoptera frugiperda ). A fall armyworm has an inverted Y-shape on its head and is found in larger numbers late summer/fall. Adult armyworm moths migrate north to Illinois from southern states to mate and lay eggs on the bottom of grass blades and other …
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… The male 'Arctic Beauty' kiwi vine is said to have a higher proportion of variegated leaves with bold splashes of white and pink. … berries are denser in nutrients like vitamin C than the larger grocery store kiwis.If you want to grow kiwi vines plan on frequent pruning and strong support. Left unchecked, these woody …
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… Aloe was winner of the RHS Garden Award of Merit in 2002 for being one of the first aloes to be successfully cultivated in Europe. As the name implies, this aloe has very short stubby … decorative three inch wide rosettes and cluster together form a dense mound of rosettes up to about a foot tall. Orange flower spikes up to 24 inches tall appear in spring. It prefers a … temperatures to about 25°F. It would look lovely in a garden during the warm summer months, it is a tender perennial and will need winter in a cool or frost-free greenhouse for the winter. In …
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… South America and in the Caribbean. They bloom once at maturity, which can be anywhere from 5 to 40 years. Most plants die after flowering and are not frost hardy. Banded agave is a medium-sized plant bearing a dense rosette of toothed, bluish-green, sword-shaped leaves, … from a very short trunk, reach 2 feet long and 3 inches wide, while the entire plant grows to a height of 24 to 48 inches with a spread of 36 to 72 inches. It blooms in the spring after 10 …
Type: Garden Guide Plant
… in September and October when the large (6-inch tall by 5-inch wide) double flowers begin to open. Reliably hardy in the Chicago region, the plant has broad green leaves that are produced in spring and die back in early summer, so the flowers appear to spring from the bare soil in fall. Deer and rabbits dislike the chemicals in the sap, but … corm, actually) will produce "daughter" bulbs, resulting in dozens of flowers. This cultivar is the result of a cross between Colchicum autumnale 'Alboplenum' and Colchicum speciosum …
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… This is a dwarf, slow-growing deciduous dogwood with a mounded habit. It gets its common name from the … with the mature green leaves. Clustered white flowers appear in late spring and mature to black fruits which are attractive to birds. Members of the genus Cornus , commonly known as dogwoods, are welcome in the home …
Type: Garden Guide Plant
… for their flowers which appear in late winter or early spring and are often the first flowers to appear in the Chicago garden. Night Coaster hellebore grows into a low mound about twenty-two inches high and 2 feet wide. The foliage is dark green with finger-like clusters of up to ten 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
