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  • … This mounded evergreen conifer needs full sun to partial shade and moderate moisture conditions to reach a maximum height of 6 feet. It is a shade tree. …
    Type: Garden Guide Plant
  • … This pyramidal evergreen conifer needs full sun and moderate moisture conditions to reach a height of 3 feet. It is a specimen and is resistant to deer. …
    Type: Garden Guide Plant
  • … This pyramidal evergreen conifer needs full sun and moderate moisture conditions to reach a height of 3 feet. It is a specimen and is resistant to deer. …
    Type: Garden Guide Plant
  • … persist. Warm weather can cause certain vegetable crops, such as head lettuce and spinach, to flower and set seed prematurely, which is called bolting. Most vegetables can be started from … late summer, beginning in August. Certain varieties of pak choi are heat tolerant and slower to bolt. Leaf lettuce and mustard greens can be planted in late summer and will mature during cooler weather. Turnips can be planted in late summer and will be ready to harvest in approximately two months. Heat-tolerant pea varieties, such as 'Wando' and …
    Type: Plant Info
  • … There are many cultigens of top onion, which are thought to be hybrids of Allium cepa , bulb onion, and Allium fistulosum , bunching onion, or their wild ancestors, A. vavilovii and altaicum . According to Dr. Peter Hanelt, editor of Mansfeld's Encyclopedia of Agricultural and Horticultural Crops , it is unlikely to have occurred in nature, because the ranges of the parents do not overlap. The color of bulbs …
    Type: Garden Guide Plant
  • … 'Clara Curtis' is a very late flowering cultivar of Korean mum with large, light pink to lavender "daisies" covering the foliage. An heirloom cultivar originally from Russia, this … leaf miner insects when grown near a night light that is consistently left on. (This applies to other plants as well.) Mail order firms now ship biological controls to homeowners as well as commercial greenhouses. The parasitic wasps are very tiny, and eat only …
    Type: Garden Guide Plant
  • … red flowers in early summer. The flowers are fragrant and upfacing on stems that stand only 14 to 18 inches high. This is a dwarf Asiatic hybrid. Asiatic hybrids are the easiest lilies to grow, are quite winter hardy and reproduce readily. They generally bloom earlier than other … although Partner is an exception. The grace and beauty of this lily makes it a lovely addition to the garden. Lilies love full sun, but will do well in partial shade. They tolerate hot summer …
    Type: Garden Guide Plant
  • … Lilium ’Robina’ has large red to rose pink flowers with white centers. The blooms are large, measuring 7 or more inches, and … with the fragrance and shape of the Oriental hybrids . These hybrids have an increased ability to withstand late spring frosts as well as hot summer days. The grace and beauty of this lily makes it a lovely addition to the garden. Lilies love full sun, but will do well in partial shade. They tolerate hot summer …
    Type: Garden Guide Plant
  • … Lilium ‘Sterling Star’ has lovely white to light-cream flowers with maroon-speckled throats. The blooms are upfacing on stems that stand … are not fragrant. Sterling Star is an Asiatic hybrid. Asiatic hybrids are the easiest lilies to grow, are quite winter hardy, and reproduce readily. They generally bloom earlier than other … Typically they are not fragrant. The grace and beauty of this lily make it a lovely addition to the garden. Lilies love full sun but will do well in partial shade. They tolerate hot summer …
    Type: Garden Guide Plant
  • … 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 … of the lilies. The unsurpassed grace and beauty of this lily make it a lovely addition to the garden. Lilies 'like their feet in the shade and heads in the sun'. They tolerate hot …
    Type: Garden Guide Plant