… Striking round heads of bright purple cover this annual from June to September. This cultivar enjoys bright sunny locations in average soils and can tolerate drier conditions. Songbirds love the seeds produced at the end of the season (as do mice, unfortunately). This plant is disease …
Type: Garden Guide Plant
… White 'catchfly' styled flowers open along the end of long waving wands of stems on this short lived perennial from the Caucasus Region. A potential addition to a prairie style landscape, it thrives in full sun and average soils. …
Type: Garden Guide Plant
… pycnantha is a little known bulbous plant named after Pierre Richer de Belleval, who founded the Montpelier Botanic Garden in 1593. It resembles a larger grape hyacinth, growing to 12 inches high. From March through June it produces beautiful dark bluish purple flowers edged …
Type: Garden Guide Plant
… Sensitive fern is a creeping perennial that grows to a maximum height of 4 feet. It requires partial to full shade and medium to wet moisture conditions. The plant does not bloom. It is used mostly as a specimen, a ground cover, or in a border. …
Type: Garden Guide Plant
… Lilium ‘Corina’ has gorgeous dark red blooms with maroon spots and reflexed petals. The flowers are upfacing , delightfully fragrant and quite large, measuring 6 to 12 inches. The stems stand 3-4 feet high , while a single stem may bear as many as 12 blooms. … of this lily makes it a lovely addition to the garden. Lilies love full sun, but will do well in partial shade. They tolerate hot summer days, as long as the bulbs are deep enough to remain …
Type: Garden Guide Plant
… Questions regarding ID of giant hogweed ( Heracleum mantegazzianum ) are not common in our region. This plant is not found at the Garden, and homeowners looking to identify the species and the threat of several related plants can find information and …
Type: Plant Info
… Description: This black-headed gull species is likely to be seen flying over the Garden in small flocks. …
Type: Birding
… Its leaves are compound, comprised of three elliptical, blue-green leaflets which turn red in the fall. It prefers full to partial sun in well-drained soil. It is hardy in this zone (Zone 5) with some protection. …
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 …
Type: Garden Guide Plant
… Geum ‘Rijnstroom’ blooms in mid May to early July with semi double copper orange flowers with wavy petals. The flowers are 1 ¾ inches across, held on hairy branching stems above mounds of mid green …
Type: Garden Guide Plant
