… <p>Among the stonecrop<em>Sedums</em>, kamtschaticum Weihenstephaner Gold is particularly colorful … flowers age to golden orange, followed by red fruits.</p> <p>Like other perennial stonecrops, this <em>Sedum</em> makes an effective and undemanding ground cover, forming a dense mat of …
Type: Garden Guide Plant
… This Adonis seems to know it's spring before we do, sending out its cheery double yellow flowers as early as February. And over the years, as the clump expands, they develop into a bouquet. Like other Adonis and many spring bulbs, Fukujukai is evanescent. It disappears after bloom. But unlike many Adonis , it's slow to leave. The ferny …
Type: Garden Guide Plant
… This native hydrangea prefers part shade but will tolerate full sun if kept constantly moist. It is tall (5 feet with a similar spread) and bears large white flower heads in mid to late summer. Since it blooms on new wood, it may be pruned close to the ground in late winter to revitalize the plant. Archived Copy: This content was captured …
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… Blue-green evergreen foliage is the featured attraction of this hardy pyramidally shaped shrub to 12' in height and 8' width. …
Type: Garden Guide Plant
… To the delight of butterflies, honeybees, and hummingbirds, velvet purply-blue flowers on 1-foot stalks top this 4-foot-tall, nonhardy sage from June until frost. Indigo Spires salvia ( Salvia 'Indigo Spires') is a chance hybrid of Salvia longispicata and Salvia farinacea ; it was discovered by staff at …
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… White 'catchfly' styled flowers open along the end of long waving wands of stems on this short lived perennial from the Caucasus Region. A … full sun and average soils. Archived Copy: This content was captured before February 2022, and is no longer being updated. …
Type: Garden Guide Plant
… Dutchman's pipe vine gets its name from the unusually shaped flowers often hidden by its large heart-shaped leaves. This eastern USA native grows in rich bottomland soils, and in the garden can quickly cover a 20-foot trellis. Archived Copy: This content was captured before February 2022, and is no longer being updated. …
Type: Garden Guide Plant
… high. Each stem has 3 to 4 branches with 12 or more large bright yellow flowers on each stem. The yellow falls are highlighted by a cinnamon brown eyelash pattern around the signal radiating out toward the edge of the petal. This is a peusadata iris, a cross between a Japanese iris ( Iris ensata) and Iris psedacorus. These …
Type: Garden Guide Plant
… Carson Landry is a freelance carillonneur from Orlando, Florida. He holds a BA in Music Studies from Principia … Elsah, Illinois, where he studied with Carlo van Ulft. Last year, he received a diploma from the Royal Carillon School “Jef Denyn” in Mechelen, Belgium, where he studied on a Fulbright … and Lithuania. He served as the carillon fellow at Bok Tower Gardens in Lake Wales, Florida this past winter. This fall, he will enter the master’s program in carillon performance at the …
Type: Event for Calendar
… ( Rhododendron ‘Landmark’) produces large trusses of dark pink flowers with red spots in the throats. Another selection from the Mezitt family of Weston Nurseries, this small-leaved, large shrub (up to 10 feet) retains most of its leaves in winter, which turn a … and conserve moisture. Archived Copy: This content was captured before February 2022, and is no longer being updated. …
Type: Garden Guide Plant
