… This perennial needs full sun to partial shade and dry soil conditions to reach a height of 3 feet. It has white and green blooms in July and August and is a specimen. …
Type: Garden Guide Plant
… in the Greenhouses, making studies of the intricate plant structures and colors, then return to the studio to translate studies into compositions. Work in graphite leading to finished work in colored pencil, using all the techniques introduced in earlier colored pencil …
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… 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
… a tropical perennial with beautiful foliage and flowers with a reputation of being difficult to grow indoors. They have large ovate dark green leaves with prominent white veins, topped with … emerge yellow tubular flowers. They are often sold as small flowering pot plants, but tend to decline if not given even watering, moderate temperatures, and filtered light. As they grow, … they branch out and may lose the lower leaves until they become leggy. Cuttings may be taken to turn them back into compact flowering plants. …
Type: Garden Guide Plant
… Black alder is an upright tree native to Europe and Asia. It can reach a height of 80 feet in the wild. It actually prefers wet conditions and is often found on riverbanks in its native habitat. Related to birches, it produces catkins in the spring. The female flowers become tiny decorative cones. … and round, with a distinctive notch at the tip. While this tree is attractive, it does tend to reseed and is considered invasive. This species is slowly being replaced with native alder …
Type: Garden Guide Plant
… Beautiful five-to-nine-lobed leaves emerge early. The plant grows 15 to 20 feet in height with a similar spread. Use the Japanese maple as a specimen plant. May and … Foliage is reddish purple and in the fall turns a crimson red. This lovely small tree, native to the Far East, can be grown only in very protected areas if you live in Zone 5. It is an …
Type: Garden Guide Plant
… is a soft lime yellow tall bearded iris with ruffled petals. The centers of the falls fade to white around the yellow beards. It stands 31 inches high with branched stalks and blooms in … with a gentle fragrance. It may rebloom. It is an excellent cut flower and is attractive to butterflies and hummingbirds while resistant to rabbits and deer. Iris is the name of the Greek goddess of the rainbow. The classic 'Fleur de …
Type: Garden Guide Plant
… Striking round heads of snowy white cover this annual from June to September. This species enjoys bright sunny locations in average soils and can tolerate drier conditions. The flowers of globe amaranth, which is native to tropical America, have papery, dry bracts that form the showy part of the plant. The true flowers, which are tiny and yellow, protrude from between the bracts. They are good to use as cut and dried flowers. Songbirds love the seeds produced at the end of the season. This …
Type: Garden Guide Plant
… shaded conditions. Well drained soils are a must, leading gardeners in early China and Japan to grow it along the rooflines of their homes or on top of their masonry walls. The dried and powdered rhizomes were used to make the white powder traditionally used to create the perfectly white facial features of Japanese and Chinese ladies. …
Type: Garden Guide Plant
