… This perennial grows to a height of 3 feet with full sun and moderate moisture conditions. It has pink blooms that attract butterflies from May through August. It belongs in a border and is resistant to deer. …
Type: Garden Guide Plant
… Q. I would like to cut back on pesticide use in my vegetable garden. Is there anything I can start to do as I plant this spring? A. Most insect pests attacking vegetables require controls specific to that insect. But rotating the crops in your entire vegetable bed is a good cultural practice …
Type: Plant Info
… early bulbs might sprout prematurely, especially those planted with a southern exposure, close to a house or garage. The first greenery to show is foliage, with flower buds appearing much later in the bulb’s growth. Subsequent cold … bit of frost. They include winter aconite, snowdrops, and glory-of-the-snow. Check garden beds to be sure plants have not heaved out of the ground due to freeze-thaw-freeze cycles. Gently …
Type: Plant Info
… How can a shade-loving, moisture seeking plant like bugbane be native to Arizona? It's native to just a few places - deep canyons in the Arizona dessert where it's protected from the sun and … of tightly packed flowers, often followed by conspicuous berries. NOTE: Berries are poisonous to people and rabbits; harmless to birds and butterflies. …
Type: Garden Guide Plant
… 1/2 feet tall, which means staking the flowers should be unnecessary. Wild dahlias are native to Mexico and Central America and have been hybridized into more than 20,000 cultivars. Dahlias … and can be planted when all danger of frost has passed. They can be started indoors in pots to achieve earlier blooming. They require at least eight hours of sun to be at their best. Dahlias are not hardy in the Chicago area, and the tubers must be lifted, …
Type: Garden Guide Plant
… a white flowering species. The genus Deutzia consists of medium sized flowering shrubs native to Asia, generally with slender stems and a fine-textured arching habit. The clusters of small … and cultivars. Deutzias are best used grouped in informal settings as a hedge or background to a border. These shrubs may benefit from occasional renewal pruning to maintain their dense attractive habit. In their native Asia, members of the genus Deutzia are …
Type: Garden Guide Plant
… The Japanese wood fern is native to the woods and forests of eastern Asia where it thrives in the partial shade and humus-rich … shield fern and its name is derived from the coppery color of the new fronds which deepen to a dark green with age. It is a medium-sized fern, growing to about 2 feet tall and a foot wide. While it prefers moist conditions it can withstand morning …
Type: Garden Guide Plant
… The dwarf crinkled male fern was developed in England from a fern native to the moist woodlands of the northern hemisphere. It has crinkled fronds and an upright growth … up about one foot wide and tall. It requires consistently moist but well-drained soil, full to partial shade, and protection from freezing and drying winds. It is adaptable to clay soil as long as it is not sitting in pooling water and is not preferred by rabbits. …
Type: Garden Guide Plant
… Aloe cryptopoda produces brilliant red and yellow flower buds that open to reveal yellow flowers from short-stemmed plants with narrow succulent leaves. The species is … who discovered it in 1914. Tough and durable, this plant requires full sun and arid conditions to produce the best flowering displays. The species name cryptopoda means "hidden foot," referring to the flower stalks, which are hidden by the leafy bracts. Like many other aloes, this species …
Type: Garden Guide Plant
… Devil's walking stick is a wickedly thorny and exotic-looking woody plant native to woodland edges in eastern North America. This species, also known as Hercules club,produces unbranched woody stalks 6 to 20 feet high and large 3-4 foot fronds of twice-compound leaves with toothed leaflets. The … covered with clusters of slender, stiff spines, arranged in rows at the leaf bases. In July to August the plants are topped with large panicles of airy white flowers which may be followed …
Type: Garden Guide Plant
