… This workshop is designed for producing practical Lightroom projects such as multimedia slideshows, books, printed portfolios, and creating web-quality images. We will also cover Blurb bookmaking for print. This is a class for those who want real-world use of Lightroom. Prerequisite: Lightroom 1 or …
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… Five-leaf Akebia ‘Leucantha’ is often called the chocolate vine for its cocoa-colored pods. This is a semi-evergreen climber with rounded leaves composed of 5 entire leaflets notched at the tips, dark green above and blue-green below. They are tinged purple in winter. Spicy smelling brownish-purple flowers …
Type: Garden Guide Plant
… Deeply cut dark-green leaves form a mound of foliage. This plant is ideal as a ground cover in a shaded spot. The blooms of the species plant are rosy-white; however, cultivars boast pink, salmon-pink, rose and lavender flowers. The attractive divided foliage of Chinese astilbe is topped by narrow, upright spikes of flowers. Chinese astilbe brightens shady corners of the …
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… Jubilee Nootka cypress, native to the Pacific Northwest, is a distinctive narrow conifer that is extremely fast growing. Older plants develop a spire-like main trunk with gracefully draping … plant in the border or grouped in foundation plantings. It will reach 10 to 25 feet high and 3 to 8 feet wide. …
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… matures naturally into a large, spherical globe covered with bright yellow daisy flowers. It is described as a late season cultivar, coming into flower in October and extending into November, unless there is a hard frost. Plant 'in the green', or before the buds start to show color to permit the root …
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… Geum rivale ‘Leonard’s Variety’ is also known as Water Avens. It grows 18 inches high and blooms from mid May to mid June with … above a clump of lobed basal leaves 10 inches high. Plant it in full sun to partial shade. It is hardy in zones 3 to 7. …
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… BLUE BUNNY’™ is an upright, deciduous shrub that grows 2–3 feet tall. From July to August, it produces … well-drained soil in full sun to part shade where it will attract butterflies. The plant is hardy to minus 10 degrees Fahrenheit and may need protection during the Chicago winter. …
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… a foot above the 3-foot masses of large bold textured, deeply cut, deep green leaves. This is an ideal plant for moist, shady locations in the garden or those areas that receive supplemental irrigation during dry periods. It is relatively pest- and disease-free but does not respond well to dry-ish soils. …
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… Bred at Terra Nova Nurseries in Oregon, 'Black Stockings' is a perennial that, when in flower, can reach 6 feet tall. It produces lacy green foliage that is topped with large lavender flowers in the late spring and early fall, but its long, jet-black stems are its claim to fame. Easy to grow in full sun to …
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… Trumpetcreeper is a woody clinging vine native to the southeastern United States. It attaches itself with aerial rootlets or radicans and grows rapidly to 30 to 40 feet. It likes average soils and moisture, and the leaves do well in the shade, but it requires sun to bloom. It produces …
Type: Garden Guide Plant
