… This perennial grows to a height of 23 inches with full sun and moderate moisture conditions. It has pink and mauve …
Type: Garden Guide Plant
… It’s finally starting to feel like spring in Chicago, which means it’s time to get those home gardens up and running. In the Horticultural Therapy Department, we’re in the process of setting up our off-site gardens at facilities all over the greater Chicago area. These gardens come in all shapes … Enabling Garden. To start your own home horticultural therapy garden, the first thing you need is a good container. At the Buehler Enabling Garden, as well as off-site gardens, horticultural …
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… of tightly packed flowers, often followed by conspicuous berries. NOTE: Berries are poisonous to people and rabbits; harmless to birds and butterflies. …
Type: Garden Guide Plant
… hummingbirds love <em>Weigela</em>, and so do gardeners. For a plant that gives you so much to look at, they're very easy to care for. No particular disease or pest problems. No special soil requirements.No deadheading. …
Type: Garden Guide Plant
… a height of 5 inches in bloom and the flowers benefit from a ground cover that can add support to their long, delicate flowers during heavy rains and wind. Because it starts into growth … effects of radiation frosts while the lack of leaves in the upper canopy permits sunlight to reach the thin, grass-like leaves of this crocus at ground level. …
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… has large, three-lobed, maple-like lime green leaves. It grows into a mound and spreads out to 24 inches or more. It can take bright sun or partial shade and loves summer heat. Sweet potato vines have really taken off in popularity in recent years due to the efforts of University of Georgia horticulture professor Alan Armitage, who noticed that …
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… Interest in mushrooms is, if you’ll excuse the expression, mushrooming, as growing numbers of people seek food from local, sustainable—and even foraged—sources. Thanks to a vibrant network of farmers’ markets and an expanded offering of mushrooms sprouting up in … and sold in supermarkets, while others appear seasonally in open markets. I’m always happy to see one of my fall favorites—hen of the woods—among the autumnal produce at the farmers’ …
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… This beautiful shrub grows up to 3 feet high with full sun and moderate moisture conditions. From May through October it …
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… This round perennial grows to a height of 4 inches with full sun and moderate moisture conditions. It has pink blooms from …
Type: Garden Guide Plant
… <p>This evergreen African native grows up to 18 inches high with bright, indirect indoor light and moderate moisture conditions. In the …
Type: Garden Guide Plant
