… Easily grown in average, moist but well-drained soils in full sun. Tolerates light shade, but will not grow in full shade. Established plants have respectable drought tolerance. Excellent winter hardiness, …
Type: Garden Guide Plant
… Bright yellow flowers with an irridescent green stigma in spring or summer adorn this monotypic (only 1 species in the genus) taxon from an extremely small natural population in Mexico. The epidermous tissue is lime grey-green, a unique color in cactus. Grown in full sun, …
Type: Garden Guide Plant
… It grows to 10 to 15 feet in height and has a wide-spreading (15 feet) habit. Use this versatile shrub as a specimen or in the home landscape shrub border. This very outstanding shrub flowers in August when few other shrubs are in bloom. White petals with reddish-pink anthers and stamens …
Type: Garden Guide Plant
… This species is a shrubby succulent threatened with extinction in its native Tanzania due to habitat loss. The reddish stems become covered in papery scaly bark as they age, covered in spines in clusters of three. The thick leaves are crinkly, with white veins and edged with …
Type: Garden Guide Plant
… This natural variant of the bottlebrush buckeye grows to 10 to 15 feet in height and has a wide-spreading (15 feet) habit. Use this versatile shrub as a specimen or in the home landscape shrub border. This very outstanding shrub flowers in August when few other shrubs are in bloom. White petals with reddish-pink anthers and stamens …
Type: Garden Guide Plant
… to purple-pink. This member of the pea family (Fabaceae) is a vine that can reach 20 feet in height in a single growing season when grown in full sun, in well-drained but moist soils, and given moderate fertilizer. This native of …
Type: Garden Guide Plant
… fragrant flowers are produced above the blue-green leaves with silver markings in early June on this cultivar belonging to the Ghent hybrids. Fall color ranges in the yellow-to-golden-orange shades. Plant these flowers in sunny locations and in acidic soils that stay moist but never saturated. This cultivar will …
Type: Garden Guide Plant
… This tulip has 8-inch-in-diameter ruffled and fringed petals that are rosy pink and flamed in cream, held 18 inches above the white-edged green leaves on strong stems. The exceptionally … large flowers are particularly subject to damage from strong winds and should be sited in the garden with this in mind. Plant this tulip in full sun and in well- drained soil that …
Type: Garden Guide Plant
… Best grown in humusy, organically rich, medium to wet soils in part shade to full shade. Must have moist soils that never dry out. Benefits from a regular, deep watering in hot summers. Foliage will wilt in too much sun. Needs a shaded location in the St. Louis area. …
Type: Garden Guide Plant
… Bottlebrush buckeye is native to New York, Pennsylvania and a few states in the Southeast. Requiring a lot of space in the landscape,this shrub grows to 8 to 10 feet in height and has a wide-spreading habit, with thick branches that do not lend themselves to …
Type: Garden Guide Plant
