… Cool Gold piggyback plant is a native of the cool forests of western north America. It takes its name from the plantlets that grow from on top of more mature leaves and appear to be piggybacking on them. Cool Green has bright yellowish-green heart-shaped leaves that are covered in tiny hairs. The plant grows to form a mound about eight inches high but extends when each …
Type: Garden Guide Plant
… Guernsey Cream is a large-flowered perennial vine that climbs 6 to 8 feet tall. From May to June, it produces 5-inch flowers that emerge light yellow with green … as they mature. Smaller flowers bloom again from August to September. Plant Guernsey Cream in full sun to partial shade, and prune it in late winter or early spring. Remove the dead stems, and cut the remaining shoots back to 6 to 9 inches above a couple of …
Type: Garden Guide Plant
… Members are invited to an exclusive tour of the Helen and Richard Thomas English Walled Garden, one of the Garden’s most enchanting and popular places. Step past the sleepy stone lion, breathe in the cowslip primrose, and listen to the water trickle into an eighteenth-century lead cistern. …
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… Q: Is it safe to compost rhubarb leaves? A: Yes. Although the leaves of rhubarb plants contain a high level of … not be eaten, they are safe to add to the compost pile. The oxalic acid degrades rapidly in the pile and has no impact on compost quality. …
Type: Plant Info
… Iris ‘Guise’ is a Standard Dwarf Bearded Iris which stands 12 in high. The standards are cream colored blending to violet. The falls are lavender with yellow edges and bronze beards. The flowers are less than …
Type: Garden Guide Plant
… Although this bush looks dramatic you can make elderberry wine from the berries when they are ripe in late summer Gerda black elderberry is a showy shrub with dark purplish-black leaves and … by edible black berries which can be used in cooking or wine-making. This elderberry can grow to about ten feet in height and about eight feet in width and will sucker profusely if left …
Type: Garden Guide Plant
… This pyramidal tree needs full sun and moderate to moist soil conditions to reach a height of 6 feet. The foliage is rusty-brown in the fall. It is resistant to deer. …
Type: Garden Guide Plant
… Iris cristata has blue to lavender flowers with a distinctive orange blotch. It is a dwarf iris standing only 6 inches high, native to floodplains from Maryland to Oklahoma. It thrives in shade, spreads rapidly, and is resistant to deer and rabbits. The name iris was taken from the Greek goddess of the rainbow to symbolize the many colors of …
Type: Garden Guide Plant
… Buttonwood, also called button mangrove, is an important part of the shoreline ecosystems in tropical America, from Florida to the Caribbean, Venezuela, and over the ocean in the Pacific Islands. The variety sericeus has …
Type: Garden Guide Plant
… abelia ( Abelia x grandiflora 'Keiser') is a medium-sized shrub with arching twigs covered in dainty, glossy opposite leaves that are sharply pointed. The new leaves are red and become dark green with age. This glossy abelia produces terminal sprays of small, tubular, white to pale pink flowers on new growth. Blooms can continue from May until mid-October. As the petals …
Type: Garden Guide Plant
