Garden Flower Perennial Plant For Sale In Chicago

* Rhizome thick, branched. V - from early spring to late autumn. Leaves falcate, 3-5, in rosette, as tall as stem. Requires a semi-shaded site and moist but well-drained soil during the vegetative period.

The leaf texture and dainty flowers are appealing. Use in larger gardens with partial shade. * An interesting garden plant.

* Blue-purple flowers in a mass at the top of the stalks in June and July and perhaps again in late summer; likes sun, grows quickly in good soil, propagating by runners * The seed usually germinates in 2 - 4 weeks at 18°c.

The main flowering stem is erect. * The leaves are deeply lobed with 3 to 7 toothed, pointed lobes in a palmate shape. * The plants flower from late spring to late summer, and are pollinated by butterflies and bumble bees.

It is widespread and common in the more southerly mountain ranges of Europe, but is rarer in the north. * Centaurea montana ( Perennial Cornflower, Mountain Cornflower, Bachelor's Button, Montane Knapweed or Mountain Bluet ) is a species of Centaurea...

* This late summer blooming Japanese anemone is a native of China that grows up to 2' tall and features 2-3" diameter, slightly-cupped flowers which have 5 (infrequently 6-7) rose-pink, sepal-like petals and a prominent center ring of yellow stamens.

Other names include 'Yellow Gentian', 'Bitter Root', 'Bitterwort', 'Centiyane', and 'Genciana'. * Gentian root has a long history of use as a herbal bitter in the treatment of digestive disorders and is an ingredient of many proprietary medicines.

The stem is hard, smooth and straight, the leaves linear to lanceolate, 4 to 5 cm long and 3 to 4 mm wide. * The plant flowers in June and July with one to six upright, dish-shaped flowers.

Well-known species include Meadowsweet (F. Ulmaria) and Dropwort (F. Stipules semicordate, large, herbaceous, margin sharply doubly serrate; petiole pubescent or subglabrous; leaf blade pinnate, with 2 pairs of lateral leaflets, abaxially densely white...

* Astilbe chinensis is a herbaceous plant with alternate, pinnately compound leaves, on thin stems. * The flowers are purple, borne in summer.

* It is a popular garden plant both for its flowers and for its fragrance. It bears large elegant flowers of various colours: red, white, striped or blue. When the plant is bruised, this smell becomes more like fine balsam.

* The flower heads dry well and the plant will self seed if the flowers heads are left in the garden. * The flower heads are 8-12 inches in diameter and are very showy. * This bulb forming perennial produces short lived sword shaped leaves followed by...

* This plant is grown as an ornamental garden plant. * It is attractive to butterflies and birds. One or several flowers, each on its own long stalk, may top a single stem. * This plant grows in prairies, on the margins of woods, and on roadsides.

* This plant is an anti-infective herb that lowers fevers and reduces pain. * This species of bugbane is an upright perennial that features ferny, deeply-cut, deep green, 2-3 ternate leaves on branched stems which form a foliage clump typically growing...

* This late summer blooming Japanese anemone is a native of China that grows up to 2' tall and features 2-3" diameter, slightly-cupped flowers which have 5 (infrequently 6-7) rose-pink, sepal-like petals and a prominent center ring of yellow stamens.

Scilla, also known as Siberian squills, grow well as woodland plant, but its vivid blue and contrasting stems make it a natural for a formal full sun garden bed. Readily naturalizes.

* Prefers well-drained soil. * Performs better than Campanula in Southern gardens. * Many Adenophora species have been used in traditional Chinese medicine. * Adenophora (Lilyleaf Ladybell) is a genus of flowering plant within the family Campanulaceae.

* This species is closely related to P. * Paeonia anomala has an immense range of wild habitat, stretching from the Ural Mountains of Russia to the Pamir Mountains of Central Asia, then to the Mongolian Gobi Desert and the Tien Shan Mountains of Kazakhstan...

It is one of a number of plants to be called by the common name daisy . * A distilled water made from the flowers is an effective eye lotion in the treatment of conjunctivitis. It is also sometimes called moon daisy or dog daisy.

* The name "naked lady" comes from the fact that the flowers emerge from the ground long after the leaves have died back. It works by doubling the chromosome number. * The poisonous alkaloid 'colchicine' is extracted from this plant and used to alter...

The seed usually germinates in 10 - 21 days at 18°c. Cool nights assist germination. * The plants are pollinated by bumblebees , and the flowers close over the insects when they enter and deposit pollen on their bodies.

* The plant is dormant during the summer and grows during the cooler half of the year. Thrives in the light shade of trees. * Easily grown in a stony leafy soil in sun or shade. Dormancy is shorter in cooler climates.

* It was discovered by the Polish botanist Ludwik Mlokosiewicz in 1897, after whom it was named by Aleksandr Lomakin. Mlokosewitschii (Lomakin) D.Y.Hong 2003. * In 2002, the Chinese botanist Hong Deyuan reduced it to a subspecies of Paeonia daurica, namely...

Use with caution, internal consumption can cause damage to the kidneys and uterine bleeding. * Birthwort has a very long history of medicinal use, though it has been little researched scientifically and is little used by present-day herbalists.

* Grown as a garden flower due to its unique flower shape. Care should be taken however, because all parts of the plant are poisonous.

* The plant looks similar to the thistles but lacks their prickly characteristics . * The name basket flower refers to the stiff, straw-colored bracts just beneath the flower head, which are divided at the tip into long, sharp teeth.

* This plant has gained the Royal Horticultural Society's Award of Garden Merit. It is cultivated as an ornamental plant in temperate regions – growing to 60 centimetres (24 in) (less in poor soils), and producing pale lilac and white flowers in spring.