… Flowering Japanese crabapple is a classic that is noted for its abundant fragrant flowers. The transition from bud to flower offers a color range from … Crabapples are small flowering trees that provide a showy display in the spring landscape for 1 to 2 weeks. In addition to the eye-catching buds and flowers, their foliage, habit, and fruit make them attractive plants almost year round. They are actively hybridized for flower color, leaf color, fruit size/color, shape, and, most important, disease resistance. …
Type: Garden Guide Plant
… The redbud crabapple is noted for its abundant, deep red buds that open to pinkish to white flowers, followed by red fruit, … Crabapples are small flowering trees that provide a showy display in the spring landscape for one to two weeks. In addition to the eye-catching buds and flowers, their foliage, habit, and fruit make them attractive plants almost year round. They are actively hybridized for flower color, leaf color, fruit size/color, shape, and, most importantly, disease resistance. …
Type: Garden Guide Plant
… exposures of night scenes in urban settings. Learn effective techniques and camera settings for night photography through presentations, instructor feedback on your photos, and one night … of hands-on instruction in a local urban setting. Transportation will be on your own for the June 30 class session, which will be held in Highland Park or Wilmette depending on conditions. Class limited to DSLR or mirrorless cameras. A tripod is required. Dress for the weather. Prerequisites: Experience with DSLR or mirrorless camera, wide angle and …
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… so you may see all three colors on the same bush, or even in a single flower cluster. It makes for a lovely and unexpected spring show, lasting a month or more.</p> <p>Bees, butterflies, and hummingbirds love <em>Weigela</em>, and so do gardeners. For a plant that gives you so much to look at, they're very easy to care for. No particular disease or pest problems. No special soil requirements. Just give them good …
Type: Garden Guide Plant
… Simmondsia chinensis , or jojoba, is native to the southwest desert and is best known for jojoba oil, a very long, straight chain wax that has more in common with whale oil than with more traditional vegetable oils. This wax is used in cosmetics and has potential for use as biodiesel fuel for automobiles as well as in a biodegradable lubricant. To reduce the harvest of sperm whales, …
Type: Garden Guide Plant
… what I could pick. The flowers are gone but the garden continues to be a source of material for indoor arrangements. A bouquet can be small—something for a kitchen countertop, a nightstand, or a windowsill. Add a few store-bought flowers and you … and color. A trip to the floral department at the local grocery store provided the eye candy for my bouquets—baby’s breath, carnations and chrysanthemums. The fillers from my own harvest …
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… the Ho-Chunk, Miami, Menominee, Sauk, and Meskwaki. The marsh once served as a portage for Native Americans crossing between Lake Michigan and the upper Des Plaines River. However, it caused problems for white settlers with peat and clay soils poor for European-style farming, which flooded regularly. Various methods for controlling the land …
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… Native to Europe and western Asia, Humulus lupulus is an attractive perennial vine suitable for Chicago-area gardens. During July, soft green conelike flowers known as strobiles emerge. … appeal. When the strobiles mature during mid- to late September, they can be collected for home brewing or other herbal uses. The vine is dioecious, meaning that male and female … 1/8- to 1/4-inch in size and not as bothersome as one would think, but gloves should be worn for pruning or handling the vines. With their smaller bristles, cultivated varieties of hop are …
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… April, that blanket can be especially welcome. If you are like me, though, you just can’t wait for that first day when you lose the covers and open the windows. It is that breath of fresh air … the corner. Roses under a warm winter blanket of mulch. Our Krasberg Rose Garden is ready for its breath of fresh air, too. All winter, many of our roses have been under their warm … can be deadly to many cultivars. As the hours of sunlight increase and daytime temperatures get warmer, however, we need to start inspecting our roses for signs that it is time to remove …
Type: Blog
… and sometimes rosy pink on the breast. Redpolls are able to store seeds in their esophagus for later eating. In winter, look for small flocks of this little, vocal finch around alders and birches where they feed on the …
Type: Birding
