… Viburnums are a versatile genus of multi-stemmed shrubs that are well suited to the home landscape due to their range of sizes and cultural adaptability. Some viburnums are noted for their fragrant …
Type: Garden Guide Plant
… Viburnums are a versatile genus of multi-stemmed shrubs that are well suited to the home landscape due to their range of sizes and cultural adaptability. Some viburnums are noted for their fragrant …
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 light blue flowers rather than the lavender-blue of …
Type: Garden Guide Plant
… Viburnums are a versatile genus of multi-stemmed shrubs that are well suited to the home landscape due to their range of sizes and cultural adaptability. Some viburnums are noted for their fragrant …
Type: Garden Guide Plant
… smaller, rounded, slow- growing trees, usually with cascading branching. They rarely grow to more than 12 feet in height with a larger spread. Palmate leaves, each having 7-11 deeply incised lobes, cut to the base of the leaf. They can also be called laceleaf Japanese maple, cutleaf Japanese maple …
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… Flowers of pale yellow edged in violet red change as the flower matures to ivory with pinkish red-violet edges on this late flowered tulip with long pointed tips to the petals. Plant these tulips in moisture-retentive, well-drained soil and in sunny positions …
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… moisture-retentive soils, and water only during periods of drought (when the leaves begin to wilt). This plant attracts butterflies, hummingbirds, and bees to the garden, but the foliage isn't favored by rabbits and deer. …
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… Soft orange, informal decorative flowers blend to golden yellow centers on this 2004 introduction from Swan Island Dahlias in Oregon. Long … and well-drained soils after danger of frost has passed, and plan on staking this cultivar to keep it upright during strong summer storms. …
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… My top pick for cool new plant species? The media has called it grotesque and compared to an eyeless worm. And our friends at the Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew, in London described it as “the ugliest orchid in the world.” The not-so-pretty Gastrodia agnicellus orchid is just one of the new discoveries and developments I’ve tracked recently, as curator of the … and collector of orchids, I still geek out when researchers stumble on a species unknown to science. Here are five of my favorite recent news stories on orchids: Gastrodia agnicellus , …
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… Step past the sleepy stone lion, breathe in the cowslip primrose, and listen to the water trickle into an eighteenth-century lead cistern—the feeling is as timeless as the tiny thyme plants growing between the hand-pressed bricks. So how do we … Helen and Richard Thomas English Walled Garden withstands the rigors of time? Work is underway to enhance the English Walled Garden’s magestical tapestry. Dedicated in 1991 by Princess …
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