… a clumping warm season grass with bright green leaves and delicate flower spikes that appear in late summer and early fall. The clump can grow to about 3 feet high and 3 feet wide. The fragrant flowers are a pinkish brown which mature to a golden brown in late fall. In massed plantings the flowers provide an attractive pinkish haze which is enhanced by …
Type: Garden Guide Plant
… directs a carillon studio of 20 students. He serves on the board of the Guild of Carillonneurs in North America (GCNA) and co-chairs its Johan Franco composition committee to promote new works for carillon. Brink began his carillon studies at Yale University with Ellen Dickinson in 2007; graduated with greatest distinction from the Royal Carillon School in Mechelen, Belgium in 2012; and studied further with Geert D’hollander at Bok Tower Gardens in …
Type: Event for Calendar
… tall and 48 inches wide, with its green leaves turning a striking orange, purple, and red in the fall. The purple flowers appear on the stems in the late summer and early fall. It grows best in full sun and moist, well-drained soil and enjoys the heat. It is most effective when grouped …
Type: Garden Guide Plant
… deutzia 'Nancy' features clusters of abundant double white flowers. It is a hybrid developed in the Lemoine nursery in Nancy, France, before 1910. The genus Deutzia consists of medium sized flowering shrubs native … slender stems and a fine-textured arching habit. The clusters of small flowers that appear in spring or early summer are white on most species, but may be pinkish in a few species and …
Type: Garden Guide Plant
… and northeastern Turkey, and Georgia, Lenten rose ( Helleborus orientalis ) is quite at home in Chicago's chilly spring. It blooms for six to eight weeks, beginning in mid-February when snow is often still on the ground. Lenten roses grow to 18 inches tall, bearing cup-shaped, 2-inch, rose-like flowers, ranging in color from white to rose-purple. Hellebores in general tolerate a variety of soils, and they …
Type: Garden Guide Plant
… has gold-green leaves with contrasting dark red veins. This electric combination is reflected in its cultivar name. It is a Heuchera villosa hybrid from Terra Nova Nurseries in Oregon, and is heat and humidity tolerant. The pale colored leaves make it a target for leaf scorch in hot afternoon sun, so Red Lightning Alumroot would prefer partial to full shade for the best …
Type: Garden Guide Plant
… Glade mallow is an uncommon and valued native species found in the wild along river banks and open areas with moist soil. Considering that it grows to over six feet tall and stands out in the garden, it is odd that every year people wonder what it is. It is native only in scattered counties in the Midwest, east to Vermont and Pennsylvania. It has large, palmate, …
Type: Garden Guide Plant
… This plant is a Narcissus , named for a beautiful young hunter in Greek mythology who fell in love with his reflection. It is a spring-flowering bulb, and when flowering is over, you can … daffodil with ivory-white petals surrounding the vivid golden trumpet; it was introduced in 1981. The up-facing flowers come into bloom in early spring and will grow to 20 inches in …
Type: Garden Guide Plant
… The bulbs of this pungent ancestor of bulb onion, Allium cepa, , multiply in the ground. The swelling in the lower part of its leaves is identical to A. cepa . Endemic populations in Kopet in the Dagh Mountains of Turkmenistan have been almost entirely destroyed by …
Type: Garden Guide Plant
… Aloe 'Delta Lights' flowers in December and January with orange tubular flowers tipped in green on relatively thin stems. Throughout the year the exquisite pale green, creamy bands … dark green layers make this a showstopper foliage plant. Broad triangular leaves grow in spirals around the center of the plant. Plant it in well-drained soil and grow in sunny …
Type: Garden Guide Plant
