… a very hardy plant that produces abundant 3-4 inch dark wine-red flowers that gradually fade to dark green. The dark green foliage is evergreen and overall the plant can form a mound about 18 inches tall and up to two feet wide. It prefers moist cool shady conditions, so is well-suited to understory locations and shady border areas. …
Type: Garden Guide Plant
… This semi-evergreen perennial produces white blooms between February and March in a partial to fully shaded area. Requires medium soil moisture and benefits from a layer of mulch around (not on top of) the crown. Chemicals in the sap cause a stinging sensation to mouth, tongue, and throat, which probably explains why this plant is not troubled by deer or rabbits. The common name of Christmas rose derives from an English selection reputed to bloom around Christmas Day in the old Julian calendar. …
Type: Garden Guide Plant
… is bat pollinated and so its flower color and fragrance are at their peak at night. White to yellow flowers are borne in succession along the length of stem to be followed by large 'dragon fruit'. This species is top grafted onto saguaro relatives at … effect. Plant in full sun, very well drained and low nutrition soils and stake as needed to direct the sprawling stems. …
Type: Garden Guide Plant
… Fully doubled flowers in shades of white and cream trending to darker pastels at the petals edges are produced in spring and early summer on this nonhardy … bulb. Plant them in full sun after the danger of hard frosts has passed and water well to establish the finger-like roots. Deadhead flowers to encourage repeat bloom but once the high heat of summer arrives, they will be going dormant. …
Type: Garden Guide Plant
… This cultivar can grow to a large shrub when mature (up to 50‘ in height with a 40’ spread). Female plants produce red, fleshy, single-seeded fruit … English yews ( T. baccata ). It prefers average, medium moist, well-drained soil in full sun to part shade, but can tolerate a wide range of soils as long as drainage is good. It can also …
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 …
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… 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. …
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… 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
… in the center of the juicy, fragrant flesh. With huge, palmately divided leaves atop a 20 to 25 foot trunk, they are very ornamental and look like coconut trees with clusters of the huge fruit under the canopy of leaves. The flowers are white with five lobes. Native to Mexico and Central America, they are cultivated in Brazil, India and many other tropical … are usually dioecious, with only female plants producing fruit, and they can produce two to three crops per year. Each fruit can weigh between 1.5 pounds (230 grams) and 3 pounds (1.4 …
Type: Garden Guide Plant
