… nature meets art. Explore the beauty of dried seedpods, leaves, and stems as you enhance them with paint, glitter, and glue to create one-of-a-kind décor. This relaxed, hands-on session … project. Use provided materials or bring your own dried plant parts to embellish. Leave with one or more unique pieces to incorporate into your seasonal decorating or future creations. …
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… bellflower is so named because of the bristly surface of its leaves. It is a perennial with green leaves and red stems. It does well in partial shade, where it will grow to 3 feet tall and produce blue bell-shaped flowers with long hairs along its edges in May and June. The stamens resemble bats hanging in a church …
Type: Garden Guide Plant
… There’s everything to like about Pretoria canna. First, there’s the fresh orange of the flowers with their red throats, deigned to attract bees and hummingbirds (and, in the tropics, bats). Then there’s the foliage – a fresh light green, with finely drawn yellow striations. Cannas are native to Central and South America and they’re …
Type: Garden Guide Plant
… ( Cortaderia selloana 'Pumila') is a dwarf selection that will produce clumps 5 feet tall, with feathery ivory flower spikes to 8 feet tall. It is not winter hardy in the Chicago area. In … climates such as California, Hawaii, and New Zealand, it has proven to be an aggressive weed, with each clump of grass capable of producing more than one million seeds. …
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… Pinkish-lilac spurred flowers with dark purple lips are one of the harbingers of spring at the Chicago Botanic Garden. Delicate dark to blue-green foliage resembling that of a maiden hair fern appears with the flowers to 5 inches in height and width. This early spring ephemeral is great for …
Type: Garden Guide Plant
… This weeping conifer grows to 12 feet high with full sun and moderate moisture conditions. …
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… This evergreen juniper has reddish-orange and chartreuse flowers and foliage with a velvet/fuzzy texture. …
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… This evergreen shrub grows to a height of 3 feet with full sun and moderate moisture conditions. …
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… Sun Spot Wintercreeper is a prostrate to mound-forming evergreen with thin leatherlike glossy green leaves. …
Type: Garden Guide Plant
… and wither before removing it from the bulb. Keep bulb and leaves in bright light and continue with normal watering. After May 15, take the potted bulb with long, straplike leaves outside and place it in the garden where it receives morning sun. Fertilize every 10 to 14 days with a liquid 10-10-10 or 15-15-15 mix. The fertilizer is necessary to replenish the bulb for a …
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