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  • … endurance, posture, core strength, cardiovascular health, and balance. This class is designed for all fitness levels, with your instructor expertly adjusting to different endurance abilities. Wear comfortable clothing and walking shoes. Dress for the weather; class will move indoors if needed. Esther Gutiérrez-Sloan, certified personal …
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  • … endurance, posture, core strength, cardiovascular health, and balance. This class is designed for all fitness levels, with your instructor expertly adjusting to different endurance abilities. Wear comfortable clothing and walking shoes. Dress for the weather; class will move indoors if needed. Esther Gutiérrez-Sloan, certified personal …
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  • … endurance, posture, core strength, cardiovascular health, and balance. This class is designed for all fitness levels, with your instructor expertly adjusting to different endurance abilities. Wear comfortable clothing and walking shoes. Dress for the weather; class will move indoors if needed.  Esther Gutiérrez-Sloan, certified personal …
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  • … endurance, posture, core strength, cardiovascular health, and balance. This class is designed for all fitness levels, with your instructor expertly adjusting to different endurance abilities. Wear comfortable clothing and walking shoes. Dress for the weather; class will move indoors if needed.  Esther Gutiérrez-Sloan, certified personal …
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  • … your own cornucopia with our  Cornucopia 101 by Nancy Clifton !  This is a great time of year to collect interesting plant materials from your own backyard to make interesting centerpieces. Here are some plants to look for: Osage orange ( Maclura pomifera ), ornamental grass plumes, crabapple fruit ( Malus sp.), …
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  • … single blossoms of light yellow with pink shading and purple flares. Tree peonies often need to settle in for one to two years before producing blooms and, once established, will grow to mature size in five to
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  • … ‘Harvest’ is a tree peony with a stunning 3-inch flower, starting as pale orange and maturing to a warm yellow. The young foliage has a reddish cast. Tree peonies often need to settle in for one to two years before producing flowers and, once established, will grow to mature size of …
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  • … Performance by Joey Brink In 2021, the National Association for Olmsted Parks (NAOP) sponsored a juried carillon composition competition to create five new pieces for the Carillon in honor of Frederick Law Olmsted. This concert will … Landscapes" Composed by prize-winner Peter Paul Olejar, along with other garden-themed pieces to celebrate. About Olmsted 200 The Garden is partnering with Olmsted 200 to present a Carillon …
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  • … can appear on the same plant. The sapwood of an infected branch may contain dark streaks. To check for this symptom, cut a cross-section of a thumb-sized branch and look for darkened tissue … live in the soil and enter plants through the roots. Infection occurs most frequently in cool to warm weather. Incidence of disease subsides during hot weather. The fungus survives in the …
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  • … creating a new hedge.  Attractive native shrubs are often overlooked—and occasionally hard to come by in local nurseries and garden centers—but they are well worth the effort to find. … at the bit to plant this native shrub. It’s unfortunate, because the chokeberry is one of the best shrubs you can grow in Illinois. Iroquois Beauty™ chokeberry  ( Aronia melanocarpa … but the fruit that comes afterward offers a food source for yellow-rumped warblers on their way south.   New Jersey Tea ( Ceanothus americanus ) New Jersey tea is one native shrub that I …
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