… is a small, mounded evergreen shrub with light green needles of a very fine texture, growing in thread-like fronds. It prefers full sun and well-drained soil. In its native habitat in Japan, Sawara false cypress is a large evergreen tree growing to between 50 and 70 feet in height. The many cultivated varieties of this large evergreen come in various shapes, colors, and …
Type: Garden Guide Plant
… These alternatives to traditional mums are easy to grow, Mary Stoker is a prolific bloomer that will gradually expand to make a sizeable clump completely smothered in single daisy flowers from late summer through the fall. Straw yellow flowers develop warm pink tones with maturity. Very showy. …
Type: Garden Guide Plant
… This cactus needs bright indoor light and dry moisture conditions to reach a height of about 3 feet before the stems start to lay over due to their weight. In late spring, it produces large orange-red blooms. It is free of most insect and disease …
Type: Garden Guide Plant
… Description: When this bird of shrub prairies is seen on migration, it is likely to be found in the Dixon Prairie. …
Type: Birding
… Two foot bloom spikes in summer are heavily covered with a many orange flowers that are particularly effective at attracting hummingbirds. The chocolate maroon foliage with bright white spines is particularly eye-catching. Grow in full sun in well drained soils and add supplemental water if leaves start to lose their plump appearance. …
Type: Garden Guide Plant
… An orchid named by Linnaeus The great botanist Linnaeus himself named this orchid in 1753, in his Species Plantarum. He invoked the legend of Venus’s slipper: the story says that Venus and Adonis were out hunting when a storm forced them to take shelter. Love ensued. Afterward, Venus left her slipper behind. A mortal found it, but …
Type: Plant Info
… Clusters of flowers with bright yellow ribbon-like petals cover the bare stems of this large, many-branched upright shrub on warm sunny days in late winter and very early spring. The alternate leaves are broadly ovate with wavy margins, … prefers a partially shaded location and well-drained, moisture-retentive soils with a neutral to acid pH. …
Type: Garden Guide Plant
… Originating in Northern China, eastern Mongolia, and eastern Siberia, downy clematis is an especially hardy … It will tolerate cold and wind and can be sited on north or northeast facing walls. It grows 6 to 10 feet and blooms in the spring, producing many lavender-bluish flowers in varying lengths, giving it the appearance …
Type: Garden Guide Plant
… sparsely branched tree-like succulents. Columnar stems and deciduous leaves are reddish green in full sun. New leaves are first produced horizontally above the spines and then vertically above the spine, indicating each year’s growth. Numerous white to dull red flowers are borne on the upper stem with cymes spreading and short stems. …
Type: Garden Guide Plant
… This mounded evergreen shrub needs full sun to partial shade and moderate soil conditions to reach a size of about 3 feet. Use in the landscape where an evergreen mounded shrub of limited height and spread is desired. …
Type: Garden Guide Plant
