… The false onion, or pregnant onion, is native to South Africa where the hot, dry conditions allow it to reach its final height of up to four feet. This unusual bulb sits above the ground where its distinctive onion shape can be …
Type: Garden Guide Plant
… Earth Stars are terrestrial bromeliads native to the rainforests of eastern Brazil where they grow on the forest floor. Black Mystic has long … Each leaf has silvery bands which result in a highly dramatic appearance that has been likened to a pheasant leaf or a spider's web. Earth stars require bright indirect light, consistently … are not hardy in Chicago, but can be overwintered in a bright location with special attention to their watering and humidity needs. …
Type: Garden Guide Plant
… greentip Natal lily ( Clivia nobilis ) glow bright orange. Each stalk bears an umbel of 20 to 60 flowers that fade to pale green tips. When grown from seed, this species takes at least 6 years or more to flower, but each plant can live many decades. Clivia nobilis was named in 1928 in honor of the …
Type: Garden Guide Plant
… Native to Japan, ‘Mops’ is a semi-dwarf shrubby conifer that reaches 4 – 5 feet high and 4 – 5 feet … The slightly weeping branches give the plant a shaggy, mophead form. This plant is easy to grow in average, medium moisture, well-drained soils in full sun to part shade. Best foliage color usually occurs in full sun. Avoid wet, poorly drained soils, …
Type: Garden Guide Plant
… tree is a lesser-known and little-grown flowering tree that reaches a mature height of 15 to 20 feet. It is a very handsome specimen plant. In late May or early June, fragrant flowers … In September, interesting navy-blue fruits on female plants attract birds. Until it begins to flower, the fringe tree appears lifeless, worrying many a homeowner. When it finally comes to life, it is covered with showy plumes of narrow-petaled white flowers. It is an outstanding …
Type: Garden Guide Plant
… habit. Mums benefit from planting into the garden or containers before the buds begin to show color—this permits their root system to establish itself before the high water use flowers come into their full glory. Bees, butterflies and hummingbirds are all attracted to the nectar-rich flowers. …
Type: Garden Guide Plant
… There’s everything to like about Pretoria canna. First, there’s the fresh orange of the flowers with their red throats, deigned to attract bees and hummingbirds (and, in the tropics, bats). Then there’s the foliage – a fresh light green, with finely drawn yellow striations. Cannas are native to Central and South America and they’re one of the oldest domesticated plants in the world, …
Type: Garden Guide Plant
… fertile stem. Its thick stands of shoots can choke other plants and requires prolonged effort to remove from sites due to rhizomes. The fertile stems of common horsetail appear in early spring before the vegetative stems have grown tall enough to block spore dispersal by the wind. The spores have appendages on them that curl when wetted …
Type: Garden Guide Plant
… silvery pink or silvery mauve flower heads that appear in late summer. This plant can grow to 7 feet in height although 5 feet is more common, and about 3-4 feet in width. This plant is popular with pollinators and is not attractive to deer. Because of its height this plant is suited to the back of a herbaceous border or could be an unusual screen or hedge. …
Type: Garden Guide Plant
… spectabilis 'Alba' is a white flowered form of Lamprocapnos spectabilis . which is native to Japan. It grows 2 – 3 feet tall and blooms in late spring with white flowers. The flowers are … of a drop of blood and gives the plant the name “bleeding heart. The plant is attractive to hummingbirds and butterflies while resistant to deer and rabbits. It is hardy in zones 3 – 9. …
Type: Garden Guide Plant
