… This shrub grows to a height of 10 feet with full sun to partial shade and moderate moisture conditions. From May through August it has showy white blooms. It belongs …
Type: Garden Guide Plant
… This cactus can grow up to 30 feet high with full sun to partial shade and moderate moisture conditions. In midsummer it produces attractive white blooms. This one can …
Type: Garden Guide Plant
… This tree grows to a height of 20 feet with full sun to partial shade and moderate moisture conditions. Its white blooms from March through June are followed by edible …
Type: Garden Guide Plant
… Aunt Dee Wisteria, a vine, grows to a height of 30 inches with full sun to partial shade and moist soil conditions. It has lavender blooms that attract butterflies from March to June. …
Type: Garden Guide Plant
… Pondering the Prairie Series Rosa setigera , or Illinois rose, grows in moist prairies and thickets, and is a typical wild rose in many ways: five pink petals, with lots of yellow stamens in the …
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… gentian (Gentiana puberulenta) . You’ll find them among the myriad of pale blues, whites, and violets of the dominant fall asters, many of them blooming throughout October. Look for bottle and cream gentians in the Garden’s Dixon Prairie or elsewhere. Buried beneath the riot of asters, … gentian. Talk about taking your breath away! It seems that a brilliantly colored flower is necessary to attract pollinators to a plant of such short stature that chooses to bloom at a …
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… “The wonder of the world, the beauty and the power, the shapes of things, their colours, lights and shades—these I saw. Look ye also … find are petals scattered on the ground, and you realize you have to wait another year. This is particularly true of species like bloodroot ( Sanguinaria canadensis ), whose blossoms only … species and other ephemerals absorb large quantities of water that would otherwise move off site, often carrying valuable nutrients and soil with it. This high demand for moisture also …
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… This perennial grows to a height of 3 feet in full sun to partial shade and dry soil conditions. It has green blooms from May to October that attract butterflies. It …
Type: Garden Guide Plant
… This perennial needs partial shade to full shade and moderate moisture conditions to reach a height of 4 feet. From May to August it produces …
Type: Garden Guide Plant
… This tropical, evergreen bulb needs full sun to partial shade and moist soil conditions to reach a height of about 9 feet. In midwinter it produces bright pink …
Type: Garden Guide Plant
