… fans are featured on this very slow growing hardy evergreen reaching 8' high by 3' wide in 10 years. An irregular upright growth habit adds to it's architectural qualities. Plant in a sunny location in moist well drained soils. …
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… Hummocks of finely textured leaves billow below the very dark purplish-red flowers in late summer followed by black seeds in the fall. Thrives in full sun with enough space to showcase the arching form topped by bottlebrush shaped flowers …
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… doubled flower (and hide the dark central cone) on this selection of native coneflowers. Plant in full sun in moderately drained fertile soils and avoid heavy fertilizer applications to keep the plants from lodging (falling over) in windy conditions. …
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… green, disease-resistant foliage holds well throughout the season, turning golden yellow in fall. This plant matures at 5 feet in size when grown in full sun and moderately fertile, well-drained soil. …
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… flowers on this Pasque flower with deeply divided, fuzzy leaves. Plant this mounding perennial in sunny, well-drained locations, where it will slowly increase in size over time. The fuzzy seed pods are ornamental in late summer. …
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… Milk-white flowers are flushed with faint blue in early spring along the midribs on this hardy squill, ideal for planting in masses beneath large deciduous trees among groundcover. It almost never sets seed so the clumps increase slowly in size through the production of daughter bulbs. …
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… close to the stem surrounded by finely dissected leaves. The leaves respond readily to changes in light and will close up on cloudy days or in shaded environments. Grow in full sun and bring indoors before the first frost. …
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… has made a dozen field trips to Brazil to study the country’s sizable inventory of species in the Amaryllis family—his main taxonomic specialty. This talk explores the highlights of these … half of Brazil, with special emphasis on two amaryllid genera found only from Pernambuco state in the northeastern region to northern São Paulo state in the southeast—two of only three genera in the family that express blue flower color. We will …
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… Actaea , spanning Europe, Asia, and North America. They're generally woodland plants, happiest in dappled shade and cool, consistently moist soil. Most form mounds of toothed leaves and then in mid-summer send up tall spikes of tightly packed flowers, often followed by conspicuous … though there are pink varieties. Gardeners welcome those flowers as a tall vertical element in woodland gardens or shady border, especially because Actaeas bloom later in the season than …
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… Large showy pink bracts subtend the clusters of drooping yellow flowers tipped in turquoise during the winter months in Chicago. The vase forming leaves are grayish-green with black spines along the edge. This bromeliad comes from the American tropics where it thrives in the top of tree canopies deriving nutrition from the leaf litter that blows/falls into the …
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