… An upright, spreading shrub, this vigorous hybrid is intermediate between its parents, Velvet Cloak smoke tree and American smoke tree. It is used in the home landscape. Although each flower is inconspicuous, the flower clusters borne on long panicles appear fuzzy and light, like puffs …
Type: Garden Guide Plant
… CHICAGOLAND GREEN® is a broad-leaved boxwood that resembles an English box in appearance. It has a uniform wide-oval habit, good winter color, and is easy to propagate. It is extremely cold hardy, surviving 32 degrees below zero with no dieback. In the spring it …
Type: Garden Guide Plant
… Dwarf Feather Reed Grass is a clump-forming upright ornamental grass. It is a low-growing cultivar reaching only about 2 feet high and 3 feet wide with flower spikes about 4 feet high. It is a warm season grass with bright green leaves and golden flower that are visible in summer. …
Type: Garden Guide Plant
… ‘Firefly’ is a self clinging climbing hydrangea aptly named for its bright yellow variegated leaves which … bugs. It reaches an average length of 40 feet with flat white flowers in May and June. It is most valued for its striking foliage of dark green contrasted with bright yellow. It does well in full sun to light shade and is moderately drought tolerant . This is a cultivar of Hydrangea anomala ssp. petiolaris which is …
Type: Garden Guide Plant
… VANILLA SPICE summersweet (or sweet pepperbush) is a cultivar of a deciduous shrub that is native to the eastern US. Its name is derived from the prolific fragrant white flowers that appear at the height of summer and that …
Type: Garden Guide Plant
… Narcissus ‘Little Witch’ is in Division 6. This is a dwarf cultivar that blooms in early to mid spring. The petals are yellow and reflexed. The corona is cylindrical with a straight mouth and is darker in tone than the petals. The bulbs are toxic …
Type: Garden Guide Plant
… EXCLAMATION!™ London planetree is a hybrid selected for its uniform, upright pyramidal habit, a strong central leader and attractive foliage. It is densely branched, has a moderate growth rate, is light-fruiting and shows resistance to frost cracking and anthracnose. It develops the …
Type: Garden Guide Plant
… This beautiful tree is a form of linden tree that is native to the midwest. It's called an AMERICAN SENTRY™ linden because of its straight … a height of abuot 45 feet and a width of about 25 feet with straight regular branching and is an excellent shade tree. In the spring it bears hanging clusters of up to ten fragrant yellow …
Type: Garden Guide Plant
… Zizia aurea, golden Alexanders, is a fairly common native wildflower and a great plant for a naturalized landscape. It is one of the earlier blooming natives, producing attractive yellow umbels - flat-topped flowers … leaves. It needs a farly good, moist soil to thrive, but will survive moderate droughts. It is found in east and central North America in woods. The technical feature that distinguished it …
Type: Garden Guide Plant
… 'Majestic Butterflies' is a variegated Ginkgo. This is a chance mutation from 'Jade Butterflies' discovered by Crispin Silva. It has variegated … shaped leaves are said to resemble green butterflies, but in this case, green and white. It is a male clone, which will not produce the distinctive smelly fruit and is perfect as an accent …
Type: Garden Guide Plant
