… climber with small bell-shaped flowers that open with azure blue petals recurved at the tips and creamy green anthers. The 3-inch flowers are small and distinctive from mid-summer to autumn. …
Type: Garden Guide Plant
… Tayton Squash pear ( Pyrus communis 'Taynton Squash') trees are the subjects of an interesting test. The Garden’s plant health care team has sprayed them with natural clay to create a barrier between their leaves and fruit and hungry insects. …
Type: Garden Guide Plant
… Korean feather reed grass prefers full sun but adapts to shady conditions and slowly produces clumps over time. Its 2-foot-high green foliage is topped by pinkish-tan flower spikes in fall that mature to cream. This grass needs consistently moist soil. …
Type: Garden Guide Plant
… This beautiful shrub grows up to 8 feet high with full sun and moderately moist soil conditions. From May through June it produces myrrh scented blush white flowers that age to white. Its' height lends itself to use as a climber trained on an arbor or allowed to climb up into the lower branches of deciduous trees. …
Type: Garden Guide Plant
… has spoon-shaped, tri-colored leaves suffused with deep wine-red. Dark blue flowers are borne in whorls up to 6 inches tall in late spring. Burgundy Glow is a colorful ground cover that will brighten up shady areas. …
Type: Garden Guide Plant
… heart-shaped leaves with bronze-reddish new growth and fall color. Snowy white flowers appear in mid to late Spring. Snowy Bishop's Cap grows well in sun or partial shade, and is tolerant of soil and moisture conditions. …
Type: Garden Guide Plant
… I am interested in how organisms’ environments and own natural histories come together to support or limit their …
Type: Staff bio
… This round evergreen shrub needs full sun to partial shade and moderate moisture conditions. It belongs in a hedge. …
Type: Garden Guide Plant
… buckeye (over 90 feet). It is also known as Aesculus x neglecta 'Erythroblastos'. It blooms in May-June with panicles of yellow flowers. This is another buckeye that will hold onto its foliage into the fall and provide a beautiful display of red and orange. …
Type: Garden Guide Plant
… are produced on tall spikes on this cultivar of a Pacific Northwest native. It is adapted to heavy clay soils that stay moist, making it an ideal perennial bulb to add to Chicago-area gardens. Native Americans traditionally roasted the bulbs as a food source. …
Type: Garden Guide Plant
