… served on the Guild’s Examination committee, as co-editor of the Guild’s newsletter Carillon News, and on the Ronald Barnes Memorial Fund jury. Mr. Lee has been an active church and synagogue musician in the Chicago area and has served as an examiner for the Royal Conservatory of Music Examinations in Toronto, Ontario. …
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… Hana Fujisaki, ORiHANA brings a fresh take to well-known Japanese songs, rearranging them for violin and piano/keys while implementing the two musicians' classical and jazz background. …
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… Capsicum baccatum is the species name for aji or Peruvian hot peppers. The plants have a more shrubby habit than bell and sweet peppers …
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… height and produce flowers up to 10 inches in diameter starting in mid-summer and continuing for six weeks into fall. Good retention of lower leaves and stout, sturdy stalks supported by a …
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… with its location. Unsatisfactory locations result in plant death; this is not a plant for a slow lingering death. …
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… This plant requires consistent soil moisture and prefers full sun. It is an excellent plant for a border and will naturalize freely. …
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… this New Zealand coastal native is a creeping vine with tiny toothed round leaves, suitable for a hanging basket in a constantly warm, moist environment. The half-inch flowers, a botanical …
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… time, the small specimen in the Garden's greenhouses will produce a swollen trunk, the basis for the common name. Like other members of the Apocynaceae or Oleander family, the milky sap of …
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… toxic and will not be eaten by deer or rabbits. The name Narcissus comes from the Greek word for narcotic and is tied to the myth of a young man known as Narcissus who fell in love with his …
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… at the Chicago Botanic Garden; its 1-inch-wide, purplish-pink flowers cover the plants for three weeks in June with repeat blooming into October. The plants are dense and …
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