… you can do this summer to extend the enchantment. 1. Annual cicadas. The annual species are with us all summer. Be an insect investigator. Find an annual cicada and notice how the two … 2. Did you know that all other insects go through life cycle stages like the cicada, with a dramatic final shedding to become adult flying insects? Dragonfly nymphs live underwater … bugs 3. Do you say “fireflies” or “lightning bugs.” Both are correct and you can play a game with them no matter what you call them. Fireflies flash a light for the same reason cicadas …
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… This evergreen perennial grows to a height of 18 inches with partial to full shade and moderate moisture conditions. It blooms from January to April with insignificant flowers, but it does attract butterflies. It is a specimen ground cover and is …
Type: Garden Guide Plant
… surround the golden disk flowers on this sunflower relative that thrives in sunny positions with well drained soils. Form of the mature plant is mounded and it is covered with flowers throughout much of the summer. …
Type: Garden Guide Plant
… Partridge pea is an upright native annual with pinnately compound leaves and large showy yellow flowers marked with red. It reaches 1 to 3 feet tall and thrives in full sun. Seedpods are eaten by birds and …
Type: Garden Guide Plant
… This shrub is semi-evergreen with its leaves turning mahogany red in fall. Lavender flowers appear in early April. It can reach a height of 6-8' with a spread of 4-5'. Like all rhododendrons, it prefers well-drained, fertile, acidic soil in …
Type: Garden Guide Plant
… and deep green, glossy, disease-resistant foliage. Situate this plant in a sunny location with good air movement, and fertilize it periodically throughout the growing season with a formula created specifically for roses. …
Type: Garden Guide Plant
… This perennial bulb blooms in early spring with white blooms with a yellow eye. Multiple (3 to 6) flowers appear on 6” stems. It should be planted in full sun …
Type: Garden Guide Plant
… This floriferous orchid produces multiple stems with nine or more flowers each. The flowers have five burgundy petals in a half-circle with a white lip edged in red. It is a terrestrial orchid, which means it should be planted in …
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… to promote new works for carillon. Brink began his carillon studies at Yale University with Ellen Dickinson in 2007; graduated with greatest distinction from the Royal Carillon School in Mechelen, Belgium in 2012; and studied further with Geert D’hollander at Bok Tower Gardens in 2015. He received first prize at the International …
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… The common milkweed blooms from late June until August, with 3-inch spheres of starry pink flowers. The structure of the tiny flowers is complex, with 5 reflexed pink sepals and 5 forward-pointing petals. Each petal has a hood at the base and … silky tufts of hairs that become airborne in the wind. The thick, unbranched stems are covered with large, oval, soft-textured leaves filled with a milky, slightly toxic sap. When monarch …
Type: Garden Guide Plant
