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Crocus
Common name: Crocus
Family: Iridaceae (Iris family)
Distribution: Europe/Asia
Hardiness: USDA Zone 4 (-30 to -20 °F; -34.4 to -28.9 °C)
Life form: Geophyte (bulb, corm or tuber)
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Elevate your company gatherings with a touch of nature! 🌿
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Powell Gardens offers the perfect private event space for your next corporate party, awards ceremony, training day, retirement celebration, or staff retreat. Immerse your team in lush surroundings and create unforgettable memories.
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Book your date now for a unique experience! Click the Private Events link in bio to learn more and submit an online inquiry. 🥂👔
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You heard Zoe— a dwarf conifer comes from a witches broom. Gardening magic! ✨🧹🧙♀️
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Kind of! 😂 A witches broom is a plant mutation, often presenting as a different looking clump of needles on conifers. The witches broom can be grafted, making new dwarf conifers. These dwarf plants grow slowly and more compactly compared to traditional conifer plants.
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All conifers produce cones, though they can vary greatly in appearance – many are woody and with rings of fish-like scales while some, like the little red ‘berries’ of Yews, don’t seem like cones at all.
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Many conifers, especially spruce and firs, also produce ‘tips’ which are their yearly new growth which often appear as small bunches of lighter, smaller, and more flexible needles. These tips arrive in the late spring and fill Powell Gardens’ Conifer Garden with color and new life; it’s a beautiful time to spend a moment exploring the garden!
Do you know how Powell Gardens’ Conifer Garden got its start?🌲
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Almost all hardy genera of conifers from around the world are represented in this garden, including firs, plum-yews, false cypress, gingko, junipers, spruce, pines, arborvitae, Doug-firs, bald cypress, yews, and hemlocks.
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Marvin Snyder, past president of the @americanconifersociety, donated a unique assortment of specialty and dwarf conifers to establish the collection.
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Powell Gardens will highlight its conifer collection during Conifer Tips (May 8-19)! Conifers, or Coniferae, are a group of woody plants, made up mostly of evergreen trees and shrubs with leaves that are needle-like, though some are scaled. Perhaps their most well-known features are their cones, or pinecones.
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Make sure to visit Powell Gardens’ Conifer Garden, a certified American Conifer Society reference garden, during Conifer Tips at Powell Gardens. A digital tour is available via Garden Explorer (link in bio).
We’re looking forward to a special day of performance art at Powell Gardens! Join @kansascityaerialarts, percussionist Candice Hill, and artist Laura Kratz on June 1, 2024.
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