Young children love to get their hands dirty. Spend three days of gardening fun, practicing activities for young children, both inside and out. This workshop features easy-to-grow plants that stimulate the senses as well as simple investigations and activities to teach about plant parts, life cycles, and how plants and animals live together. CPDUs: 18, Gateways: 18, Graduate credit: 1 (optional; …
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Growing plants provides many ways to address aspects of the Next Generation Science Standards. Whether students are home or in the classroom, learn to help them develop an understanding of the scientific process using plants and seeds to set up experiments and compare results. Investigate plant structure and function, needs, adaptations, and more. ISBE PD Hours: 6; Gateways Hours: 6 Grade …
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Learn some useful horticultural therapy techniques that stimulate creativity, self-confidence, and emotional resilience and maximize the use of natural materials and gardens to promote well-being. Use learning accommodations for diverse learners and incorporate mentally restorative qualities of the natural world while addressing content standards. CPDUs: 13, Gateways: 13, Graduate credit: 1 …
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Q. I would like to enrich my garden soil this spring and wonder about using manure on my flower beds. A. Composted or aged manure is a wonderful soil amendment, useful in most types of garden beds. When completely composted, it contains all the organic matter without any of the weed seeds, soluble salts and ammonia present in fresh manure. Like most natural fertilizer products, aged manure has …
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The pollinator garden is a popular school garden theme that promotes conservation and provides multiple opportunities for NGSS connections. Plant a pollinator container garden and receive additional native plants and seeds for your school garden. Meet a horticulturist and a scientist to learn about native plant care, companion planting, and the ecology of native pollinators. Gain ideas for using …
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… in shady gardens, where flowers are usually more subtle and less showy. In many cases, leaves, with their texture, shape, size and color, contribute more to a shade garden than flowers. Hostas … grasslike leaves and flourish in moist, partial shade. Mix either of these two choices with large-leaved hostas, and a shady garden comes alive. Yellow sedge ( Carex elata 'Bowles … yellow leaves. Variegated sedge ( Carex morrowii 'Ice Dance') has broader, bright green leaves with white edges. Heuchera Palace Purple coral bells ( Heuchera 'Palace Purple'), the first …
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… suspended from the ceiling, or attached to a wall. We don’t often think of “decorating” with plants, but it’s an opportunity to use them as displays, whether your style is minimalist, cottage, formal, funky, or vintage. There’s the beauty of a fern with its delicate fronds or an African violet with a cluster of vibrant flowers. Some, like jasmine, add fragrance to a room. Ivy and pothos …
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… Join The Guild for cocktails, hors d’oeuvres, and a night of conversations on clean beauty with Laura White, Founder of Arch Glow. Space 519 200 E. Chestnut Chicago, IL 60611 Questions? …
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… nature makes it easy. A seed exists to sprout, and given the right conditions, it will do so with great determination. Sowing Seeds Seeds of many species can be sown outdoors once the ground thaws. But others—especially annuals and vegetables that come from places with a longer growing season than Chicago—are best given a head start inside where it's warm, … perennial, and vegetable seedlings every year for the Garden's displays. A beginner can start with a dozen plants on a windowsill. Seeds are so cheap that there's no great risk in at least …
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… Q. Are there advantages to routinely spraying my trees with oils? A. Routine spraying of any product on healthy trees really doesn’t make much sense. If … The tree must truly be dormant and not have broken bud yet, and the weather should be calm with little wind. There are a few trees sensitive to dormant oil that should not be treated: …
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