… stunning beauty of their usually large flowers, which emerge prior to the foliage in spring, and are often fragrant. While shades of pink are the most common bloom color, the Magnolia palette also includes white, yellows, and purples. Another dominant feature is a prominent fruiting body of small follicles forming a cone-like shape. The species range from small trees to very large trees and shrubs. Magnolias are an ancient genus that appeared before bees; early pollinators are …
Type: Garden Guide Plant
… stunning beauty of their usually large flowers, which emerge prior to the foliage in spring, and are often fragrant. While shades of pink are the most common bloom color, the Magnolia palette also includes white, yellows, and purples. Another dominant feature is a prominent fruiting body of small follicles forming a cone-like shape. The species range from small trees to very large trees and shrubs. Magnolias are an ancient genus that appeared before bees; early pollinators are …
Type: Garden Guide Plant
… This small flowering tree reaches 15' to 20' in height and is often multistemmed. Site it in a prominent place so that everyone can enjoy it. The fragrant, creamy-white flowers appear in late May or early June and grow in panicles 3" to 6" in length. It also has beautiful reddish-brown peeling bark. The Pekin lilac is a lesser-known and grown tree form of lilac that is becoming more popular for its fine ornamental …
Type: Garden Guide Plant
… Great egret: ( Ardea alba ) Graceful, white wader The great egret’s elegant flight and bright white plumage belie its harsh croak when it takes off from a marsh. It was this bird’s beauty that nearly led to its demise at the turn of the twentieth century—when these and other waders were hunted for their feathery plumes that women wore in their hats. Since then, … to extinction. Great egrets spend winter as far south as the West Indies, Central America, and South America. In spring, they migrate in small flocks during the day, eventually choosing a …
Type: Birding
… Good friends and colleagues, Janet Tebbel and Lisa Lonie have been performing off and on as a duo team since the early 1990s. They are recognized soloists on their own, with …
Type: Event for Calendar
… This perennial grows to a height of 18 inches with full sun and moderate moisture conditions. It has white blooms in March and April. It belongs in a border and is also attractive to birds. …
Type: Garden Guide Plant
… This perennial is a South African native and needs bright indoor light and dry moisture conditions to reach a maximum height of 18 inches. In the summer it blooms repeatedly with yellow and orange flowers. …
Type: Garden Guide Plant
… Jazz Festival, Oak Street Beachstro, Del Webb Sun City, Glen View Club, Windsor Manor, and a variety of other venues in the Chicago area. The Reunion Jazz Orchestra has in its ranks doctors and architects, information technology professionals, music educators, executives, and entrepreneurs. The band has as authentic a swing as you'll find anywhere, but it also plays …
Type: Event for Calendar
… Blanche Sweet is a cultivar of the hyacinth lilac, which is a cross between the common lilac and the Asian lilac S. oblata . It was selected in 1981 and bears fragrant chalky blue blossoms with a pinkish blush. It blooms a week or two earlier … the genus Syringa , commonly known as lilacs, are shrubs or small trees prized for their showy and fragrant blooms in late spring. The individual flowers are tubular in form and are borne in …
Type: Garden Guide Plant
… species. The abundant white blooms, fine-textured foliage, blue-purple bird-friendly berries and orange fall color are characteristic of the species. Members of the genus Amelanchier offer … pinkish) in spring, edible berries in early summer, attractive foliage color in fall and interesting bark/branch structure in winter. Common names for amelanchier include juneberry and serviceberry and refer to the blueberry-like fruit edible by humans and much beloved by …
Type: Garden Guide Plant
