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  • … it’s a spirited evening of family-friendly fun—just creepy enough to keep you on your toes. BUY Member Tickets …
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  • Teacher Programs Policies Registration Policies Register early!  To help ensure that the classes you want are not canceled due to low enrollment, register early and encourage your colleagues to do the same.  Preregistration is necessary for all classes.  Enrollment is limited for each program. Full class payment is due at the time of registration. If a class qualifies for optional graduate …
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  • … Caribbean. They bloom once at maturity, which can be anywhere from 5 to 40 years. Most plants die after flowering and are not frost hardy. Native to Mexico, the twin-flowered agave grows to 3 …
    Type: Garden Guide Plant
  • Eco-Friendly Cards and Gift Wrap It’s easy and fun to enrich your holiday with eco-friendly alternatives to buying cards and gift wrap. Read on as the Garden offers tips on making holiday greetings and wrapping gifts using materials and methods that won’t hurt your wallet or the environment. Cards People love receiving holiday cards, and they especially appreciate the unique beauty of homemade …
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  • … of Northern Iowa Topic: Restoring monarch habitat in Iowa: county roadsides, urban flood buy-outs, and (maybe) farms 2:40 p.m. Stretch break 2:50 p.m. Doug Taron, Ph.D., curator of … of Northern Iowa Topic: Restoring monarch habitat in Iowa: county roadsides, urban flood buy-outs, and (maybe) farms 2:40 p.m. Stretch break 2:50 p.m. Doug Taron, Ph.D., curator of …
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  • …     L earn more about the how and why of the osprey nesting platform project  at the FOCR website. Follow the links on the FOCR website for images, video, and a press release relating to the installation of an identical …
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  • Gardening as a Social Enterprise Including People with Disabilities Manual: Gardening as a Social Enterprise: Including People with Disabilities   Document Downloads Standards Violations Feedback Forms Best Practices Guide and Session 1 Sample Urban Agriculture Webinar Phase 2 and 3 Budget Standards Violations Feedback Forms Tool Shed Inventory 2013 Windy City Harvest Logs Garden Layout …
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  • Bred specifically for northern gardeners, this cultivar dies back to ground level each winter and then re-sprouts from the roots to produce a small flowering shrub from August into September. Flowers on new growth (southern crepe myrtles flower on previous season's …
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  • … totem poles and trellises in low light, low humidity interiorscapes where many other species die. It will respond positively however to warm temperatures, high humidity and moisture …
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  • … unable to feed, so they live off their stored body fat while searching for mates until they die, usually within seven to ten days.   This Imperial moth ( Eacles imperialis ), had a …
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