… blue berries, and awl-shaped needles. It prefers full sun and moderate moisture and is hardy to USDA Zone 4. This cultivar reaches only 3 feet in height and 4 feet in width and is intolerant … of hot, humid, summer conditions. It is appropriate as a blue accent plant or grouped to form a mounded ground cover. …
Type: Garden Guide Plant
… Multiple flat, star-like, sterile white flowers come into flower in June and continue up to the first frost. Hayes Starburst smooth hydrangea ( Hydrangea arborescens 'Hayes Starburst') … wood, so it will reliably flower in the Chicago area, regardless of how much damage is done to the stems of the plants over winter. …
Type: Garden Guide Plant
… cultivar was hybridized by noted Rhododendron breeder, Dr. David Leach. An evergreen shrub to 5 feet in height by 8 feet in width, it is perfectly hardy in the Chicago area, but needs moisture-retentive acidic soils in order to grow properly, and prefers a site with afternoon shade. …
Type: Garden Guide Plant
… Pine 'Glauca Brevifolia' is a beautiful pine with short blue green needles. It prefers dry to average soil moisture with good drainage. It is hardy to USDA zone 5 and can tolerate some salt exposure. Slow growing, it reaches a mature height of …
Type: Garden Guide Plant
… grown from the classic weeping eastern white pine. Unless staked, the growth is all pendulous to horizontal. As a staked specimen, the lateral branches closely hug the main trunk as they cascade down creating a 'skirt' effect when reaching the ground. Bright light to full sun and acidic, well-drained, consistently moist soils are ideal growing conditions. …
Type: Garden Guide Plant
… than the straight species and produces lavender-pink flowers in vertical rows on spikes to 10 inches in height. This salt-tolerant cultivar attracts butterflies while resisting deer. … 'Vivid' prefers full sun and moist soils; when provided with these conditions, it is not prone to disease and insect infestations. …
Type: Garden Guide Plant
… poukhanense ) is a low-growing azalea covered with pink-mauve flowers in spring and orange to red fall color later in the season. Like other plants native to Korea, this species is winter hardy in many parts of the Upper Midwest, including the Chicago …
Type: Garden Guide Plant
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… Starry white flowers are produced atop stems to 16" height in early spring before the leaves emerge. This rare Korean native is hardy to USDA zone 4 and prefers moist soils and cool summer temperatures. Grow in full sun in cool …
Type: Garden Guide Plant
… features medium-sized, double, snow-white flowers and very light pink buds. It will grow to about 2 feet tall with a spread of 5 to 6 feet. It has slight fragrance. …
Type: Garden Guide Plant
