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Tour: Alice Keck Park Memorial Garden

Pink Delights
Jupiter's Beard, Red Valerian
Small Cape Rush
Pride Of Madeira
Floss Silk Tree, Kapok
Floss Silk Tree, Kapok
Ruby Flower Red Horsechestnut
Cecile Brunner Rose (polyantha)
Jupiter's Beard, Red Valerian

Common name:Jupiter's Beard, Red Valerian
Botanical name:Centranthus ruber

This perennial ground cover will grow 1'-3' high and has medium-size blue/green leaves with red, pink, or white flowers that bloom in the summer.

Small Cape Rush

Common name:Small Cape Rush
Botanical name:Chondropetalum tectorum

Chondropetalum tectorum has 3'-4' tall stems that shoot out in all directions from the roots. Each stem has papery bracts connected to the ends that turn from tan to dark drown, then fall off. Chondropetalum can grow in marshes, in the ground with regular watering, or in drought conditions.

Pride Of Madeira

Common name:Pride Of Madeira
Botanical name:Echium candicans

Mature specimens of this evergreen shrub can grow to a size of 6'-8' tall and 8'-10' wide. In the spring, spikes of rosy-violet to blue-purple flowers appear. It should receive sun to part shade, with little or no summer watering when established. This plant can be severely damaged by frost below 25 degrees F. This plant can be invasive in some areas, so use caution.

Floss Silk Tree, Kapok

Common name:Floss Silk Tree, Kapok
Botanical name:Chorisia speciosa

This deciduous tree grows 30' to 60' tall and 30' wide; it has a trunk covered in short spines. It produces beautiful pink flowers in the fall and needs occasional deep watering with good drainage. Leaves drop during autumn flowering or whenever temperatures drop below 27 degrees F.

Floss Silk Tree, Kapok

Common name:Floss Silk Tree, Kapok
Botanical name:Chorisia speciosa

This deciduous tree grows 30' to 60' tall and 30' wide; it has a trunk covered in short spines. It produces beautiful pink flowers in the fall and needs occasional deep watering with good drainage. Leaves drop during autumn flowering or whenever temperatures drop below 27 degrees F.

Ruby Flower Red Horsechestnut

Common name:Ruby Flower Red Horsechestnut
Botanical name:Aesculus X carnea 'Briotii'

Aesculus carnea 'Briotii' is a deciduous tree that grows to 40' high and 30' wide. Aesculus carnea has a round crown with large dark green leaves, divided into leaflets. It bears hundreds of 8" long plumes of red flowers.

Cecile Brunner Rose (polyantha)

Common name:Cecile Brunner Rose (polyantha)
Botanical name:Rosa 'Cecile Brunner'

This climbing rose can grow as tall as 25' with support. It has become one of the most popular roses in cultivation because of its strong display in spring of lightly fragrant flowers that look like tiny, high centered, hybrid tea roses. It is long-lived, disease resistant and tolerates everything from poor soil to partial shade.

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Pink Delights
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Photographer: GardenSoft

Soils and Compost:

Physical weed control, including mulching, or hand removal protects the watershed from harmful chemicals.

Integrated Pest Management:

Attract, or buy beneficial insects such as ladybugs and lacewings to control pest outbreaks in your garden.