… This perennial bulb blooms with bright vermillion flowers in late spring and will grow to a height of only 4”. The flower color provides a nice contrast to its wavy, gray-green foliage. It should be planted in full sun in average, well-drained soil. …
Type: Garden Guide Plant
… This evergreen ground cover grows to a height of 6” and will spread to 18”. It blooms from May through June with small, lavender-blue flowers. It will bloom …
Type: Garden Guide Plant
… Plant this zinnia in full sun and moderately fertile and well-drained soils, and water enough to establish the seedlings and thereafter only during periods of drought. It attracts a number of pollinating insects to the garden. …
Type: Garden Guide Plant
… has its roots in the ancient Greek myths. Flower legend says that the goddess Aphrodite (Venus to the Romans) was out hunting with the handsome mortal Adonis, when a powerful storm forced them to seek shelter together in a cave. Love ensued. Post-storm, the lovers ran off—Venus, minus one … a lot of meaning into that name: Cyprus was the sacred island of Venus’s birth, pedilon is the word for slipper, and calceolus means little shoe. The lady’s slipper orchid is native …
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… species of moths in the state of Illinois—more than ten times the diversity of butterflies—it is a real adventure sampling the moth species inhabiting the McDonald Woods at the Chicago … woodland. Moths are removed from the traps and then photographed before being released back to the woodland. The metallic scales of the Virginia Ctenucha moth (C tenucha virginica ) are … the food chain. Entomologist Doug Tallamy tabulated the number of caterpillars that were used to support one nest of black-capped chickadees and found that they consumed between 6,000 and …
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… Celebrate Cinco de Mayo with recipes featuring flavorful chiles. Learn how to roast, peel, and de-seed peppers. Taste a variety of Mexican chiles in a progression of heat from mild to hot, as well as chiles in three different recipes: chayote with guajillo dressing, carne asada …
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… Africa in sandy, well-drained soils in hot/dry situations in the garden. Water only enough to germinate the seeds or establish the root system of transplants. Deadhead old flowers to encourage continuous bloom. …
Type: Garden Guide Plant
… that thrives in shaded conditions and moist acidic soils. The trademarked name refers to a series of large, double flowered Lenten roses that must be hand pollinated in order to reliably set seed. Rabbits and deer avoid all parts of this plant. …
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… dark purple green foliage on this cultivar of the native red-flowered lobelia from late summer to the middle of fall. A great selection for sunny locations with moist to wet soils—edges of ponds or stream banks. It attracts hummingbirds and other late summer …
Type: Garden Guide Plant
… flowers cover the 18 inch sized plants from mid-summer well into fall on this annual adapted to sunny, hot and dry locations in containers and flower beds. The flowers are 20% larger than those of other cultivars. Zinnia flowers are great butterfly and honey bee attractants to the garden. …
Type: Garden Guide Plant
