… provide an elegant background for the flowers that resemble a tropical hibiscus in shape and coloring. …
Type: Garden Guide Plant
… This beautiful climber grows up to 10 feet high with full sun and moist soil conditions. From May through October it produces fragrant red blooms. It can be …
Type: Garden Guide Plant
… Delicately fringed white and lavender flowers grace this shade-tolerant native annual from late spring through midsummer. …
Type: Garden Guide Plant
… the Caucasus Region. A potential addition to a prairie style landscape, it thrives in full sun and average soils. …
Type: Garden Guide Plant
… Amorphophallus remains a unique occupant in the world of plants, and visitors to the Chicago Botanic Garden recently experienced the fascinating bloom cycle with the titan arum Sprout. However, there is an additional denizen of the Araceae (a.k.a. Aroid, a.k.a. Arum) family with rare and exceptional attributes, which also bloomed at the Garden. Japanese cobra lily (Arisaema …
Type: Blog
… home to my quiet, tree-lined Chicago neighborhood, but one thing I miss about urban living is ample outdoor space. The back door of my apartment leads to a wooden fire escape—built after … to find a pot with holes at the bottom. “I like to use terra cotta pots because they’re porous and absorb water. Otherwise, you could certainly use copper planters. A hanging basket might work … veggie classes, I reference Ina Garten’s potato salad. It calls for two types of potatoes, and four or five different herbs. If you go to the store and buy these ingredients, it could cost …
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… glossy leaves, the Frontier elm turns reddish-purple in autumn. “It’s unlike most other elms and it also develops nice-looking bark as it ages,” says Tim Johnson, director of horticulture. …
Type: Plant Info
… by its large heart-shaped leaves. This eastern USA native grows in rich bottomland soils, and in the garden can quickly cover a 20-foot trellis. …
Type: Garden Guide Plant
… cultivar was selected for the production of two types of growth. Downward facing, twisting and congested cupped branchlets contrast with upright open branches featuring reddish stems. …
Type: Garden Guide Plant
… Tranquil, peaceful, and serene are words often associated with the McDonald Woods, which wrap around the northeastern … Chicago Botanic Garden. But to Jim Steffen , senior ecologist at the Garden, the oak woodland is a bustling center for natural processes and species, and may hold answers to unsolved scientific questions. Purple milkweed ( Asclepias …
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