… Light mauve flowers with white on the exterior petals are characteristic of this diminutive northern form of this widespread Mexican species. The tubercules are much smaller than the type and are hooked at the end. Grow in full sun in well-drained soils, and avoid overwatering, particularly during the dormant period. …
Type: Garden Guide Plant
… Description: A colorful duck, the wood duck is commonly visible in lakes with its tail end sticking up, perched in trees, or using nesting boxes in the Barbara Brown Nature Reserve. …
Type: Birding
… Large statuesque light green leaves form the water retention cup on this non-hardy bromeliad that produces showy pineapple shaped flower spikes with bright red bracts. Grow in full sun, periodically refresh the water in the basin and bring indoors before the first frost. …
Type: Garden Guide Plant
… Iris 'Violet Beauty' is a dwarf iris that stands only 4 inches high and blooms in late winter or very early spring with a mild fragrance. The flowers are deep purple-violet. In the center of the purple falls there is a narrow, bright yellow line with white spots on the …
Type: Garden Guide Plant
… sit above a mound of bright green, short, strap-like foliage. Although it performs better in full sun and watered regularly, it can handle some shade and some drought. Excellent as a cut flower, attracts pollinators, and tolerates pests such as deer and gophers. It is hardy to zone 9 and is used as an annual at the Chicago Botanic Garden. …
Type: Garden Guide Plant
… Medium pink, tubular flowers festoon the tips of this hardy shrub's branches in June. It will eventually reach 10 feet in size if corrective pruning is not performed. Pink Cloud beauty bush is one of the species of suckering shrubs whose size can be controlled by removing no more that one-third …
Type: Garden Guide Plant
… Large soft pink berries are produced in tight clusters near the tips of the branches on this small deciduous shrub. Tolerant of light conditions, it thrives towards the …
Type: Garden Guide Plant
… Dark pink, thin ray flowers surround the deep orange eye of this coneflower on a shorter statured plant. The showy non-fertile ray flowers extend out horizontally from the central orange-colored fertile flowers. Plant this echinacea in full sun and well-drained soil, and protect the plant from rabbits until it becomes …
Type: Garden Guide Plant
… Thick petaled flowers in a yellow-peach blend and a green throat provide a spot of color in midsummer in Chicago landscapes. Like other daylilies, this cultivar thrives in full sun and average soils. 'Majestic Move' re-flowers throughout the summer, and its flowers will remain open into the evening. …
Type: Garden Guide Plant
… at all. Needle-like leaves grow along thin, sprawling stems that lie across other plants in moist prairies. It resembles Sprenger's asparagus. The leaves have a prickly feel like Galium aparine . In late summer, tiny five-petalled cupped flowers appear. The petals are white, with a thin lavender-blue line down the center. The flowers have long …
Type: Garden Guide Plant
