… Bringing a bit of your garden indoors to join a celebration can be as easy as cutting a few evergreen branches for a vase. But if you … if you do this in summer, you may be able to use flowers from your own cutting garden. The best flowers to use are full and mounded, such as carnations, cushion mums, and roses — "anything … make it heavy. A cone is a little trickier, Clifton says. Start at the bottom and work your way up. Around the bottom of the cone, insert the stems with a slightly upward slant, so the …
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… beautiful woodland. Gardeners often wonder if it's possible, in suburban or even urban areas, to establish a little piece of woodland of their own. Jim Steffen, ecologist at the Chicago … of a building to create needed light shade. The north or east side of a house or garage is best for understory woodland plants since they require only 15 to 20 percent full sun per day to … side. If the soil is too rich, many plants will put out leggy but weak growth. Water only to get plants established. Native plants are used to competing in stressful situations. Encourage …
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… Photographer Julie Kaplan—named best photographer by Make It Better magazine for three years—is offering family portraits for an additional fee during our Easter Egg and … please purchase the 9 a.m. ticket time; then contact Julie Kaplan’s studio at (224) 522-0454 to schedule your seating time. …
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… in painting, sculpture, and other art forms. These design elements are the tools artists use to communicate with the viewer. In his lecture, "Elements of Design," Aarin Packard, curator of the Pacific Bonsai Museum in Federal Way, Washington, will discuss how each element of design functions and how it is applied to bonsai. The lecture explores line, shape, form, color, and space to establish a foundation for bonsai aesthetics that will enhance your appreciation of bonsai and other visual art. Aarin …
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… the trunk is yellowish red. This cultivar was selected because it exhibited greater tolerance for high light conditions than other forms on the market - regardless will perform best in locations with at least some shade throughout the day. …
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… flowers in white with a purple eye. Plant in well drained moisture retentive soils in full sun for best foliage color and growth. Dig tubers in fall after first frost has knocked the foliage off …
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… Home gardeners can sympathize: not every seed that is planted grows. This truth extends to restored prairies that are grown from seed mixes, according to Rebecca Barak, Ph.D., who … transect in each study prairie, and marked off a large circle every 5 meters along the way. Within the circle, she and her collaborators counted all the plant species they could find. … rainwater and carbon dioxide—they also provide opportunities we can all enjoy each time we visit, said the scientist and former teacher. “I think it’s about more than that [the ecological …
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… cherished in midwestern gardens, parks, and streetscapes for the steady color they bring even to the gray and brown winter. Yet as much as we love to drape them with holiday lights, they often get less respect and care than color-shifting roses and Japanese maples. Evergreen trees and … some plants, such as some varieties of Colorado spruce, the waxy coating refracts light in a way that makes the needles appear more blue than green. Only a couple of species of conifers are …
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… look, you’ll notice signs of wildlife all around you, too. Their connection makes for the best kind of codependency. Killdeer, a shorebird that commonly nests at the Garden. Plants and … and other perennial seeds. Crabapple and dogwood trees set fruit that many birds like to feed on in late fall and winter. In addition to plants providing food to all kinds of wildlife … Sometimes, nature lends a helping hand to protect the plants, too. Foxes and coyotes that visit the Garden on occasion chase away geese and voles, small rodents that damage the bark of …
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… reach a height of 50 feet with a spread of 35 feet. The sugar maple is an excellent shade tree for lawns and parks. Tiny yellowish-green flowers appear in spring before the leaves emerge. The tree's winged fruit, or samaras, matures in the fall. Autumn color is orange red to red. One of the best known trees of eastern North America, sugar maple is as prized for its ornamental value as …
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