… This weeping conifer grows to 8 feet high with full sun to partial shade and moist soil conditions. …
Type: Garden Guide Plant
… This evergreen perennial grows to a height of 3 feet with partial to full shade and moderate moisture conditions. …
Type: Garden Guide Plant
… This perennial grows to a height of 2 feet with full sun to partial shade and moist soil conditions. …
Type: Garden Guide Plant
… A longtime favorite of staff and visitors alike, the zebra longwing ( Heliconius charitonius ) is native from South America to south Texas and Florida, and occasionally an immigrant can be found as far north as Nebraska! … One very interesting thing about these beauties is that they roost communally in groups of 25 to 30 butterflies. In the Butterflies & Blooms exhibition, they tend to use the same branch night …
Type: Blog
… A striking century plant is putting on a show in the final stages of its life—it’s blooming for the first and only time in … at the Chicago Botanic Garden, Agave ocahui is known as the century plant because people used to think it flowered only once every 100 years. A more accurate estimate is that it blooms once after 25 to 30 years of growth. The Garden’s century plant came from The Huntington Library, Art …
Type: Blog
… expansion of the Panama Canal in Central America. The 19-million-year-old fossils are related to modern-day mangos, poison ivy, and cashews—all members of the family Anacardiaceae. The … exquisitely preserved intact in their original three-dimensional shape. One of the new species is in the genus Spondias (hog plums), which today grows in tropical Central and South America and … second species is in the genus Antrocaryon (Ameixa or jacaiacá plums), which today are native to the Amazonian rainforests. The third species is in the genus Dracontomelon (chi sấu plums), …
Type: Research
… New! Working on slate can bring unique textures to your color pencil drawings. Learn how to apply color pencil to this interesting surface, some erasing techniques, and incorporating the texture into your …
Type: Item Detail
… resemble a fountain when in flower. Bright blue fruit are surrounded by red, showy bracts to provide interest throughout the year. This nonhardy shrub needs bright light to full sun, well-drained, moisture-retentive soils, and pruning to control size/shape. …
Type: Garden Guide Plant
… Bushy deep red spikes of flowers increase in size from June up to the first hard frost on this annual adapted to sunny locations and average soils. The dark reddish green foliage adds to the 'wow' factor in the landscape. Songbirds relish the seeds in fall if the spikes haven't …
Type: Garden Guide Plant
… leaves in alternating dark and light green are the primary ornamental feature however lavender to purple flowers in cone like structures hidden under the foliage in winter are attractive, if they can be spotted. This plant requires high humidity and moisture retentive acidic soils to thrive. Prone to spider mites (low humidity) in most home situations. …
Type: Garden Guide Plant
