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  • … and excellent landscape performance. Lovely robust plant that adds texture, scent and color to the perennial garden. Pinch back after the first couple of inches of spring growth to keep plants compact. Archived Copy: This content was captured before February 2022, and is no longer being updated. …
    Type: Garden Guide Plant
  • … and excellent landscape performance. Lovely robust plant that adds texture, scent and color to the perennial garden. Pinch back after the first couple of inches of spring growth to keep plants compact. Archived Copy: This content was captured before February 2022, and is no longer being updated. …
    Type: Garden Guide Plant
  • … One of the world’s most popular and spectacular palms, wild date palm is often used on golf courses, … has a single trunk, swollen at the base, marked by a diamond pattern created by leaf scars. It is dioecious—having both male and female plants; when fertilized, the female plant produces small …
    Type: Garden Guide Plant
  • … Named after an American physician, Culver’s root is a native American perennial that grows in forests, meadows, and prairies throughout the Midwest. Adoration grows to about 5 feet tall and width of about 2 feet. It has lance-shaped … to moist, well-drained soil in full sun. A good background plant in the perennial bed, it is attractive to butterflies. …
    Type: Garden Guide Plant
  • This perennial is a South African native and needs bright indoor light and dry moisture conditions to reach a maximum height of 18 inches.  In the summer it blooms repeatedly with yellow and orange flowers. …
    Type: Garden Guide Plant
  • … Siberian Bugloss ‘Jack Frost’ is a clump-forming perennial that grows to a maximum height of 18 inches. It requires partial … shade and moderate moisture conditions. From April to May it produces showy blue flowers. The plant is a ground cover. Archived Copy: This content was captured before February 2022, and is no longer being updated. …
    Type: Garden Guide Plant
  • … Hartwig locust is a tree or shrub that can grow to a maximum height of 52 feet. It requires full sun and moderate moisture conditions. In late spring it produces white flowers. The plant is useful as a shade tree. Archived Copy: This content was captured before February 2022, and is no longer being updated. …
    Type: Garden Guide Plant
  • … Description: The less common of two species of nuthatches seen at the Garden, it is usually seen in winter in wooded areas and at bird feeders. …
    Type: Birding
  • … syriacus 'Jeanne d'Arc' has stunning snow white double flowers from mid summer to fall. This is a deciduous shrub that grows to 10 feet high. It is hardy to zone 5b. When the species was named syriacus, it was thought to have originated in Syria, but it is actually …
    Type: Garden Guide Plant
  • … One of the smaller species of columbine, it has nodding blue to violet flowers. Granny's bonnet works well in most gardens. This columbine has spurs that curve inward and end in small knobs. This shade-loving perennial reseeds and can become naturalized. It is reliable in most gardens. Archived Copy: This content was captured before February 2022, and …
    Type: Garden Guide Plant