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  • … Scilla forbesii is an upright-growing bulb from southwest Turkey flowering in late winter and early spring with blue and white flowers. It …
    Type: Garden Guide Plant
  • … cold hardy (Zone 2). It is generally grown as a multi-trunked shrub and can range in height from 2’ to 20’. Its light green needles are slight curved and grow in bundles of two. It prefers …
    Type: Garden Guide Plant
  • … in full sun or partial shade and will even tolerate full shade. Plant in a site protected from the wind. It can be pruned heavily in the spring for hedging. …
    Type: Garden Guide Plant
  • … resembles the cultivars in fashion in the Ottoman Empire, when the first tulips were imported from there into Europe. Plant this tulip in full sun and moderately fertile soils for best …
    Type: Garden Guide Plant
  • … This acacia is a small tree or large shrub from the Chihuahuan and Sonoran deserts of the southwestern United States and northern Mexico. It …
    Type: Garden Guide Plant
  • … feeding insects and hummingbirds. Acrid compounds in the plant sap deter rabbits and deer from feeding on it. …
    Type: Garden Guide Plant
  • … witherod viburnum is a rounded shrub with fine foliage and attractive fruit that turn from pink through red and blue to black. Viburnums are a versatile genus of multi-stemmed shrubs …
    Type: Garden Guide Plant
  • … in their jurisdictions? Forester Jenny Lesko had. In late spring, Toth got permission from the DNR to harvest mistletoe. He drove more than 400 miles to meet Lesko in woods near a … on a fallen silver maple tree in the water. As luck would have it, Lesko had brought a kayak from home, and Toth was an experienced paddler. “It’s not very often I get to incorporate a kayak … tree. With a hand saw, he pruned off the branches that had the most mistletoe. Lesko watched from shore. “I thought, he better not fall in—I don’t want this day to end in a water rescue!” …
    Type: Blog
  • … medicine failed. It involved a bad case of pneumonia, an ill-tempered toddler, an escape from the hospital, and my great-grandmother’s plant medicine. I don’t remember the experience … teachings and provide a path for healing for myself and my loved ones. Below are four examples from my own experience; I’m a citizen of the Prairie Band Potawatomi Nation and manager of the … Cultural Center in Schaumburg. The author, Gina Roxas-Gonzales, has learned about healing from the traditional teachings of family elders, including her great-grandmother Vivian.   A word …
    Type: Blog
  • … are less dense and the potting soil is loose, it is easier to tease out the roots to grow away from the main trunk. When placing the plant in the hole, pack the soil firmly, but not too … maladies. And often, dense piles of mulch (especially wood chips) actually route water away from the plant and wick moisture from the soil. Mulch wide, not deep. Thumb-deep is enough. Trees send out roots laterally: they …
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