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  • … This tender (Zone 8) evergreen shrub can grow to 6 feet tall with partial shade to full shade and moderate moisture conditions in a greenhouse. From midspring to early fall it blooms …
    Type: Garden Guide Plant
  • … This shrub grows to a height of about 6 feet with full sun and moderate moisture conditions. It has white blooms from May through August followed by yellow …
    Type: Garden Guide Plant
  • … This beautiful shrub grows up to 3 feet high with full sun and moist soil conditions. From May through June it produces fragrant shell pink to white blooms …
    Type: Garden Guide Plant
  • … This beautiful shrub grows up to 8 feet high with full sun to partial shade and moist soil conditions. From May through August it produces fragrant red blooms. It can be …
    Type: Garden Guide Plant
  • … their veins shading to solid pink at the base of the petals. A deep red lip has some yellow and orange coloration near the base of the lip. …
    Type: Garden Guide Plant
  • … shaded situation with protection from hot afternoon sun, particularly where summers are warm and humid. Also excellent in mixed containers. From Blooms of Bressingham®. USPP#9781: unlicensed …
    Type: Garden Guide Plant
  • … " The Anna Karenina principle states that “Happy families are all alike; every unhappy family is unhappy in its own way” When we talk about rare species we tend to think of them as a … own way”. Rabinowitz (1981) showed that all common species had wide ranges, large population and broad habitat tolerance, while rare species could have any combination of these traits, but not all three. What is interesting is the range, population size and habitat preference all have important consequences for gene flow and population structure. I …
    Type: Staff bio
  • … Pondering the Prairie Series Life in the prairie in the middle of winter is fairly uneventful; at least for humans who focus primarily on life above ground. Perhaps now … the diversity of life in a prairie below ground. All one has to do is drive across the Midwest and view the unending and, to many, boring, miles of corn and soybean fields to understand the impact of prairie life …
    Type: Blog
  • … struggle. They suspect the problem may be solved through soil science. The health of a forest is rooted in soil and the diverse fungi living within it, according to researchers at the Chicago Botanic Garden, … lead to the deforestation of native natural areas. Research collaborators tour a study site in China. “There has been a lot of deforestation in China and so there is interest in …
    Type: Blog
  • … Garden. I have an incredible job that allows me to work with many wonderful graduate students and a team of researchers to study ways to restore natural areas in the Colorado Plateau. If … has to offer. It includes more than 80 million acres across Utah, Colorado, New Mexico, and Arizona—and the largest concentration of national parks in the country. Our research team … able to handle these growing threats (we refer to them as “native winners”). The ultimate goal is to help make restoration of these plants and habitats as effective as possible in order to …
    Type: Blog