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  • … respective members, shareholders, officers and directors, employees, volunteers, and agents from any and all liability arising from the use of alcoholic beverages or acts of nature. As a ticket holder to Lift Your Spirits: … the Garden, you assume all risks and dangers of personal injury and all other hazards arising from or related to Lift Your Spirits: Craft Spirits Tasting at the Garden whether occurring prior …
    Type: Event for Calendar
  • … in tropical understories where little light reaches the ground. Although far removed from their original habitats, they can thrive indoors and brighten the sometimes bleak winter … foliage creates a focal point in a less-than-ideal situation indoors. Its common name comes from the snakeskin-like mottling on the leaves. Newer varieties like ‘Moonshine’ are silver-gray, … Insects typically don’t bother ZZ plants, but you may want to occasionally wipe dust from its waxy green leaves with a damp cloth. Spider Plant         ( Chlorophytum comosum )   …
    Type: Plant Info
  • … year. Winter offers a quiet, serene beauty that’s unlike any other season. Here are some tips from Carlson and Fraley to enhance your photographic skills. Look to nature “The woods and … up warm and cool colors reflected by the sky,” Carlson said. Move around and look at an object from different angles. “I like to look at plants from a side view. Isolate the subject against the sky or the snow.” She found the ice-encased …
    Type: Plant Info
  • … the state or federal government. All are rare, either due to loss of habitat, removal of fire from the ecosystem, or competition from invasive plants such as European buckthorn or purple loosestrife. Plants of Concern Susanne … and its three white, flared petals, it rivals the orchids of the tropics for beauty. It grows from 1 to 3 feet, in fens or bogs. Two other lady slippers, also rare in the Chicago area and …
    Type: Plant Info
  • … can be seen growing in the wild in colonies along streams, in lowlands, and along riverbanks from Wisconsin and Quebec south to the Gulf Coast states. They have large, simple, toothed leaves … be the earliest shrubs to bloom, with their blossoms emerging while the brown seed capsules from the previous year are still attached to the branches, while some can be the latest, waiting … tall with a similar width. It will retain an attractive shape with little pruning needed, and from February to March it produces clusters of showy, fragrant blooms.   Hamamelis x intermedia …
    Type: Plant Info
  • … with some attention to their culture and selection. They give continuous bloom in your garden from late May into early September; range in height from a diminutive 4 inches to a towering 8 feet; produce flowers from 1 inch across to as large as a dinner plate; dazzle in colors of white, pink, yellow, …
    Type: Plant Info
  • … remainder of the time in the soil (insoluble or slow pool).  During that first week, chitin from fungal cell walls was rapidly lost. This initial degradation was driven by the Zygomycete … important to carbon sequestration. Our next step is to trace the pathway of fungal molecules from necromass to soil particles. …
    Type: Research
  • … to bloom again next winter. Cyclamen plants need to be kept in a bright, cool location away from direct sunlight. One to two hours of direct sunlight is acceptable in the winter months as … cool location for approximately three months and given just enough water to keep the roots from totally drying out. After the dormancy period, plants should be transplanted in fresh, …
    Type: Plant Info
  • … Treatment & Solutions Broadleaved evergreens should be planted where they will be protected from winter sun. Generally, an eastern exposure is best. In the fall, thoroughly water evergreens … Where practical, burlap screens can be constructed in the winter to provide some protection from wind and sun. In spring, wait until new growth appears before pruning out damaged areas. New …
    Type: Plant Info
  • … How do you bring an endangered plant species back from the brink of extinction? The answer might be found in zoo animals. That’s the inspiration … the threatened species back into the wild. The zoologists used genetic information taken from the remaining black-footed ferrets, and bred a strong, biodiverse population that could keep …
    Type: Blog