… terrestrial orchid. Use in the landscape where ever a spot of months long tropical color is needed. …
Type: Garden Guide Plant
… northern forest makes a rare visit if it strays east of its normal plains migration route. It is visible across the Garden and normally on the ground. …
Type: Birding
… accentuated by the dark red stems rising from the dark bronze foliage in summer. This astilbe is ideal for moist soils in shaded conditions; water it during droughts. …
Type: Garden Guide Plant
… This small round cactus is a native of Brazil and doesn’t get more than 6 inches high with bright, indirect indoor light …
Type: Garden Guide Plant
… Two foot tall spires of white to cream flowers rise like candelabra above the 4-foot mound of blue-green foliage on this … in fall. Members of the genus Baptisia are commonly known as wild or false indigo due to their use by early Americans as a blue dye. Although "indigo" is in the common name, the blooms of native species may be blue, yellow, or white and the blooms …
Type: Garden Guide Plant
… Description: This wren is most often heard, but may be seen, in wet areas of the Dixon Prairie or along restored …
Type: Birding
… trumpet daffodils come into flower early in the season, April in the Chicago region. The color is described as "much brighter than vivid yellow" in the technical description of this cultivar. …
Type: Garden Guide Plant
… Rockspray cotoneaster is a low and slow growing shrub with a fishbone branching pattern that can become tiered over … as hedges or groundcovers. The genus Cotoneaster includes at least 90 species of shrubs native to the temperate regions of Europe and Asia, with a concentration in western China. There are no cotoneasters native to the U.S., though a number of species and their hybrids and cultivars flourish in the northern …
Type: Garden Guide Plant
… Texas bluebonnet, carpets parts of the Southwest in early spring if rains have been sufficient to keep the seedlings alive over the winter. Bluebonnets germinate in the fall and overwinter as … by fire, resulting in a large number of bluebonnets appearing after wildfires. The genus name is derived from the Latin lupus (wolf), referring to the mistaken belief that as plants spread into an area, they depleted the soil nutrients. In …
Type: Garden Guide Plant
… of 1/8-inch white tubular flowers around the leaf axils. Its blooms not showy. The fruit is a set of 4 nutlets forming a square, each nutlet containing a single seed. …
Type: Garden Guide Plant
