… there are so many kinds to grow and use. Sharpen your pepper skills—from plant care to cooking with peppers, to DIY salsa—at our Pepper Sunday celebration. With Chef Series demos, horticulturist tours, volunteer Q&A stations, and Family Drop-in … for everyone. Vendors will offer plenty of pepper products—and you can compare flavors with pepper-seasoned popcorn too. Highlights See many varieties of peppers growing in the Fruit & …
Type: Event for Calendar
… Description: Possibly visible in the lakes or flying with flocks overhead, this bird resembles the trumpeter swan, but with a small yellow spot near the eye. …
Type: Birding
… This perennial grows to a height of 1 foot with full sun and moderate moisture conditions. It has purple blooms with a yellow center in September and October. …
Type: Garden Guide Plant
… tree that reaches 10 to 12 feet in height. Its dark gray bark is smooth and sometimes mottled with brown, with obscurely angled branchlets that soon become terete (circular or cylindrical), with spreading, stiff, cream-colored hairs. The feathery foliage is pale green with cream-colored …
Type: Garden Guide Plant
… to send out runners and pop up where you didn't plant it. This is a large shrub, 8-10' tall, with branches that start out upright and arch outward. The leaves are compound with usually 7 toothed leaflets. The light brown stems are covered with warty lenticels. The leaves and stems are mildly toxic. Large flat clusters of white flowers …
Type: Garden Guide Plant
… and discuss variations for recipes such as New Orleans creole chicken, filet of beef au poivre with béarnaise sauce, roasted beets with horseradish cream sauce, and vegetable medley with beurre blanc. Mary Kay Gill, professional culinary instructor ITW Kitchen, Learning Center …
Type: Item Detail
… Frosty is a begonia that lights up the shade with its frosted leaves and pink flowers. It’s an Angel Wing or cane-type begonia with thicker stems that enable it to reach 4’ in its natural environment. Begonias are native to … as well as South America, where they thrive on the forest floor, so they’re generally happiest with heat, humidity, and at least partial shade. …
Type: Garden Guide Plant
… Lesser calamint is an aromatic, slow-growing, erect perennial with ovate dark green leaves that are 1½ inches long that smell like mint. It grows best in sun … moist soil. In summer, it produces 5 to 15 white-turning-to-light-lavender to blue flowers with the onset of cooler nighttime temperatures in fall. A pollinator magnet throughout the season with compounds in the leaves that deter deer and rabbits. …
Type: Garden Guide Plant
… is native to Europe, northern Africa, and southwestern Asia. The scapes stand 4 -8 inches high with narrow, linear leaves at the base. It blooms in March and April with very dark blue, almost black, fertile flowers with white lobes, as well as smaller, paler flowers that are sterile. It is long blooming and …
Type: Garden Guide Plant
… Blue dawn flower is a pantropical morning glory. It is a twining vine with large, blue funnel-shaped flowers, with purple in the throat, and fading to red-violet. The vines can reach 15 feet or more, and allegedly cover anything they can reach. The large leaves are three-lobed with a velvety texture. Blue dawn flower grows quickly, given ample water and heat. It is not …
Type: Garden Guide Plant
