… Champlain hardy shrub rose ( Rosa 'Champlain') is one of the very hardy and disease-resistant shrub roses developed in Canada known collectively as … hips in fall, all of which recommend it to gardeners in the Chicago area. Archived Copy: This content was captured before February 2022, and is no longer being updated. …
Type: Garden Guide Plant
… Although this bush looks dramatic you can make elderberry wine from the berries when they are ripe in late summer Gerda black elderberry is a showy shrub with dark purplish-black leaves and clusters of pale pink flowers that appear in …
Type: Garden Guide Plant
… Hibiscus syriacus 'Minspot' has pink semi-double flowers with deep red centers. This is an upright shrub that grows 5 to 8 feet tall and blooms from mid summer to fall. Minspot is part of the First Edition® series and is commonly sold as FIJI™. It is hardy in zones 5 – 8. When …
Type: Garden Guide Plant
… ( Tacca chantrieri ) has deep purple, almost black bracts on tall, 20-inch flowering stems. The flowers, which can grow up to 10 inches long, superficially resemble a bat in flight with long whiskers. The foliage of this unusual-looking shade-loving plant resembles Spathiphyllum , and its color and odor attract bats and flies to achieve cross-pollination. Tacca is a monotypic genus in the Taccadeae family, with a natural population range limited to Malaysia …
Type: Garden Guide Plant
… Pale yellow flowers appear before the yellowish-green pitchers with delicate red pinstriping become actively trapping insects in … After flowering the pitchers have two heavy feeding periods in spring and fall. Archived Copy: This content was captured before February 2022, and is no longer being updated. …
Type: Garden Guide Plant
… This species is endemic to west Hubei, Sichuan and Yunnan provinces in China. It was first discovered in 1875 by a surgeon in the Russian army and introduced to western cultivation in 1908. It blooms heavily in winter through early spring and is attractive to butterflies. The blooms are fragrant lilac-mauve flowers with orange throats in …
Type: Garden Guide Plant
… Geum ‘Solid Gold’ is also known by its common name of avens. It stands 12 to 18 inches tall and blooms in late spring to early summer. The flowers are gold, semi double, fringed and wavy. They flowers face upwards and measure 1 ¼ … forms a mounded clump of foliage 10 – 12 inches high. Plant it in full sun or partial shade. This is a member of the Cocktail™ Series bred by Brent Horvath of Intrinsic Perennial …
Type: Garden Guide Plant
… As either a small, round-topped shrub or a desirable small tree, the red buckeye can reach a height of 10 to 20 feet. Its lustrous dark-green leaves are composed … in May. The brown seeds that mature in October look like the eye of a buck. Its fall color is another attractive feature of red buckeye. Archived Copy: This content was captured before February 2022, and is no longer being updated. …
Type: Garden Guide Plant
… Description: This is a rare sight diving on the lakes. …
Type: Birding
… Mexican sunflower is a large annual in the aster family that produces daisy-like flowers from summer until a hard frost. 'Goldfinger' has yellow-orange flowers and is shorter and more compact than the species, at about 3 feet tall. Each flower is about 3 inches …
Type: Garden Guide Plant
