… bracts entirely red or cream on this poinsettia cultivar. Keep your poinsettias in a frost free, brightly lighted and draft free location for extended displays indoors. Some people are allergic to the milky white sap. …
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… Dahlias, it flowers best in full sun and well-drained, moisture-retentive soil. This dahlia is insect and disease free. Plant tubers or potted plants outdoors after the danger of late spring frosts has passed. After the first hard frost in the fall, lift the tubers, shake them free of soil, and store them in a cool, dry location, nestled in pine shavings until the …
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… Green Carts A Green Cart is similar to the idea of a Green Corner, where you fill one area of a room with all things … to create an engaging and stress-relieving environment. However, in this case, the environment is mobile. Similar to the Touch Me cart found in the Buehler Enabling Garden, a Green Cart is a … plants and natural items, displayed together to invite people to interact with nature, risk-free. When people engage with multiple textures, colors, and scents, they are stimulating their …
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… Miss Alice™ paper flower ( Bougainvillea 'Singapore White') is a low-thorn cultivar covered in exceptionally large white bracts (often mistaken as flowers) … plant makes a great specimen in a large container, if Chicago-area homeowners have a frost-free, sunny location in which to site it. The Garden's Miss Alice™ paper flower is being trained to cover a low fence …
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… Krasberg Rose Garden When the roses are in bloom—more than 5,000 of them—it’s hard to get beyond the shimmers of color and scent, the everything-is-coming-up-roses metaphor come to life. In the three-acre Krasberg Rose Garden, showstoppers … along with the best rose varieties for Midwest gardens. One of the best times to drop by is in the morning, when the roses are the most fragrant—the warming effects of the early sun help …
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… glaucous (bluish) cast. This acacia requires full sun and well-drained soil in a frost-free climate and dislikes transplanting, so young seedlings should be moved to their final … of the pea family, this species plays host to microorganisms that return the favor of a free meal by making atmospheric nitrogen available to the plant. This plant is used regionally to make honey; acacia honey is a bit darker than clover honey, but it has a …
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… it's only March, and yes, there's still snow on the ground. Yet smart gardeners know that now is the time to plan for fall color in your garden. Nurseries and garden centers start receiving … month's Smart Gardener , we sat down with Jacob Burns, curator of herbaceous perennials, to get his take on what to look for this spring—but with an eye toward fall. His suggestions for … over grey-green foliage, they give way to peach-colored seedheads. 16 to 18 inches, tall, 26 to 28 inches wide Firecracker sedum ( Sedum 'Firecracker') smolders with intense burgundy-red …
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… shade) and completely hardy in the Chicago area, this 4’ to 6’ sized fragrant deciduous shrub is a wonderful compliment to the early spring bulbs that bloom at the same time. Best grown as an … the type of growth that produces the maximum number of flowers. This native of Korean is represented by a single species, a condition that is referred to as monotypic in the scientific jargon. The species is critically endangered in its …
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… pollinator they’re trying to lure. Other orchids look familiar to humans, even though there is no connection for the flower. There’s a word for the phenomenon, pareidolia . Click on … their weight springs them downward into contact with the pollen. Caleana major Ophrys apifera is known as the bee orchid. This species not only looks like a female bee, but it smells like … pollen from one flower to another. Ophrys apifera Psychopsis papilio looks like a butterfly, is named for the butterfly (papilio is the Latin word), and flutters like a butterfly at the top …
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… the food inside cools. We recommend using Ball or Kerr lids, because they have been proven BPA free. Lids should only be used once for safety purposes. After the first use, the seal may become … a safe pH level. Ball has more than 500 tested recipes available online at freshpreserving.com/recipes . Prepare your ingredients ahead of time . Canning, like cooking anything else, is a fast-paced endeavor once you get started. Having all your ingredients prepped and measured before you start will make the …
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