… Description: This elusive, medium-sized shorebird is known for its distinctive courtship flights at dusk in early May. It can be seen on the ground in wet …
Type: Birding
… Crab grass control can be spread on lawns in early to mid-April before weeds germinate. For severe problems, a second application might be necessary in early June. …
Type: Plant Info
… It has white blooms that attract butterflies from November to April and is a specimen plant for the border. …
Type: Garden Guide Plant
… almost every one of our 200-plus butterflies started flying. They had been waiting all morning for this. The air in the exhibition was laced with pheromones from many different butterfly … story is this: run to the butterfly exhibition if it has recently stopped raining. You might get a chance to see some amazing butterfly mating behavior. …
Type: Blog
… heat of the rocks in which they are growing. When the trees grow to about 25 feet high, they get a canker disease—a fungal infection—and quickly die. The chalk-white bark of these quaking … we’re studying; a month earlier, Adam and Dr. Smith had collected root pieces from the trees for propagation. Sunlight fading over Sierra Del Carmen in Coahuila, Mexico. After the team …
Type: Blog
… Pygmy' but with narrower, straplike lobes. The young leaves are light red, becoming dark red for the summer and holding their color well.</p> …
Type: Garden Guide Plant
… everyone of the myths out there that roses are hard,” says Soulsby, senior horticulturist for the Krasberg Rose Garden , Heritage Garden, and Linden Allée. “Over a couple decades ago, the … toward more sustainable roses, and right now that’s what all the rose breeders are shooting for.” Krasberg Rose Garden For your spring inspiration, here are myths he is busting Myth 1: Roses are too …
Type: Blog
… should allow some of the seedlings to survive in order to keep this plant in their gardens for seasons to come. Herbal Powers Traditionally used to treat a range of infections and … stimulant" properties. Native Americans of the Great Plains held Echinacea in high regard. For more than 400 years they used it as a cure for infections and wounds, and even prescribed it for snakebites, stings, toothaches, and the …
Type: Plant Info
… The cultivar 'Sir John Thouron' is valued for its showy, pale yellow flowers that form a ball-shaped umbrella well above its dark-green … a thick, fleshy stalk. It was only eight years ago that White Flower Farms offered 36 plants for $950 each; all were sold out to a movie star, a fashion designer, and several collectors. … a mature plant develops a symmetrical, fan-shaped silhouette that provides a perfect foil for its masses of trumpet-shaped flowers. Native to damp woodlands in southern Africa, the plant …
Type: Garden Guide Plant
… Description: In early spring and late fall, look for this bird of the high tundra as it scurries along the paths in the Dixon Prairie or flies …
Type: Birding
