… Description: a common migrant in any wooded area of the Garden and a nester in McDonald Woods …
Type: Birding
… Description: Merlins may be spotted flying overhead on migration in fall or perched in a tree. …
Type: Birding
… Garden about using light as a garden element. Why light a garden? Light creates a feeling in space, according to Ms. Moyer, as well as serving as a directional tool. It provides visual transportation in a garden from one area to another. Lighting can say "welcome" if the front entrance is lit or … isolation of winter's long hours of darkness. It can guide us toward what is most interesting in a landscape. Careful lighting of a garden creates a nighttime space that adds a new dimension …
Type: Plant Info
… mainstays at all of our Windy City Harvest locations. Hoophouse A hoophouse, either in-ground or attached to a raised bed, is a manageable way to try it. Along the way, you might … Fruit & Vegetable Garden are equipped with practical brackets/pipe segments for hoops to fit in. Think of a hoophouse as a lightweight mini-greenhouse without the glass. A sheet of heavier plastic, draped over wire or plastic pipe arches creates the following benefits: holds in heat; keeps the soil warmer for longer; limits weather damage; helps hold in moisture; and is …
Type: Plant Info
… Brazil by presenting a wide variety of Brazilian compositions combined with his own originals. In his performance, Luciano contrasts songs that have rich and complex harmonies and melodies … range from pure solo guitar and voice to the full sound of the rich Brazilian percussion in a fascinating musical way. Luciano released three albums, two of which are original music "Vida De Artista — An Artist's Life" in 2011 and “Sem Palavras — Without Words” in 2015. His 3rd Album is a 'Live Concert" at the …
Type: Event for Calendar
… Lovely semi-double, richly colored rose-pink flowers wave gracefully in the slightest breeze on Queen Charlotte anemone ( Anemone x hybrida ‘Queen Charlotte’). The … dark-green compound leaves that effectively smother out most weeds. This plant can be grown in full sun but prefers partial shade and soils that are well drained but constantly moist … leaves and foliage are deer and rabbit resistant. Queen Charlotte comes with her own what’s-in-a-name story. In the United States, she is most frequently sold as Queen Charlotte, while in …
Type: Garden Guide Plant
… culinary and medicinal purposes. The lemon myrtle is native to the rainforests of Queensland in north-eastern Australia where the Australian indigenous people used the leaves for their … and insect repellent properties. Although the lemon myrtle can grow to over fifty feet in optimal situations, in commercial situations it rarely exceeds fifteen feet. In the springtime it is heavily covered …
Type: Garden Guide Plant
… leichtlinii ‘Caerulea’ produces spikes of soft lavender-blue flowers up to 36 inches tall in late spring andearly summer. Each spike can carry between 20 and 80 flowers. It is one of the … few North American native bulbs that are widely available for gardeners to plant that thrive in moist to wet soils. Free of most insect and disease pests, this taxon will flower well in full sun or partially shaded conditions. The genus Camassia is derived from a Native American …
Type: Garden Guide Plant
… that looks like a spiny rosy-red artichoke, with sharp pointed bracts. It is rare and in the wild it grows in tropical rainforests along the border between Ecuador and Peru. The leaves are broad and drooping with long burgundy petioles; green in low light but lime green infused with coppery-red in bright light. Bromeliads in the tropical …
Type: Garden Guide Plant
… and 4,000 white-and- purple Dutch crocuses ( C. vernus 'Remembrance' and 'Jeanne d' Arc') are in spectacular bloom in the Evening Island meadow in April. This cultivar goes by many names, including 'Yellow Mammoth', 'Golden Yellow', and just …
Type: Garden Guide Plant
