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  • … Upright blue Scots pine is slow-growing with ascending branches and a narrow columnar form. The foliage is gray-blue, and … exhibit orange-brown exfoliating bark. It prefers full sun in well-drained soil and will grow to 10 feet tall by 3 feet wide in 10 years. It is extremely cold-hardy to minus 50 degrees Fahrenheit, and is appropriate for USDA zone 2. …
    Type: Garden Guide Plant
  • … Blue Star is a low mound-forming evergreen shrub with attractive steel-blue foliage, blue berries, and awl-shaped needles. It prefers full sun and moderate moisture and is hardy to USDA Zone 4. This cultivar reaches only 3 feet in height and 4 feet in width and is intolerant … of hot, humid, summer conditions. It is appropriate as a blue accent plant or grouped to form a mounded ground cover. …
    Type: Garden Guide Plant
  • … At the end of fall, it is easy for people to think that nature has shut down for the winter—this could not be farther … most of the vegetation does go dormant for the winter, there is still a myriad of life to be found, even though it might be more inconspicuous and less flamboyant. McDonald Woods, for …
    Type: Blog
  • … rosy lilac flowers packed together in large flat topped flowerheads. With age, the color fades to a pink lilac. The stems stand 24 “tall with gray green fernlike foliage. It does best in full sun and blooms from early summer to early fall. It is attractive to buttterflies, bees and hummingbirds while resistant to deer, rabbits and …
    Type: Garden Guide Plant
  • … Native to western Turkey, Chionodoxa lucilliae is an upright-growing bulb producing showy blue flowers with white centers in March and April. … are narrow, thick, and dark green. It reaches a maximum height of 9 inches under full sun to partial shade with moderate moisture conditions. The plant is ideal as a specimen in a border. …
    Type: Garden Guide Plant
  • … This maple is very similar to Acer japonicum and is also known commonly as the full moon maple. It can reach a height of 20 feet with a similar spread. Reddish-purple flowers give way to samaras that mature to red. The round, palmate leaves are bright yellow, sometimes with red …
    Type: Garden Guide Plant
  • … Manchurian pipevine is native to the mixed forests of Manchuria and Korea. It is a woody vine that can grow to over 15 feet high and about six feet wide, and in warmer climates it is deciduous. The name …
    Type: Garden Guide Plant
  • … Hibiscus rosa-sinensis 'The Path' has large, yellow orange flowers which blend inward to a bright pink. This is a tropical shrub that reaches a height of 6 to 8 feet and blooms continuously in a mild climate. It is hardy in zones 10-11. It was bred from …
    Type: Garden Guide Plant
  • … ‘SMHPLQF’ is often sold under the trade mark name Little Quick Fire™. This is a dwarf shrub 3 -5 ft. … color of the flowers is not affected by the pH of the soil. ‘SMHPLQF’ does well in full sun to light shade and is moderately drought - tolerant. It blooms on new wood so it is not susceptible to late spring frosts. This is a hybrid of Hydrangea paniculata which is native to Japan, China …
    Type: Garden Guide Plant
  • … Q. My turf grass is in serious need of help. I have far too many bare patches and weeds, and the grass looks too thin. What can I do? A. From mid-August to mid-September is a good time to renovate existing turf. Cultivate those bare patches, and overseed with a grass mix suitable …
    Type: Plant Info