… THIS EVENT IS CANCELED Thursday, April 20, 7 – 8 p.m. Alsdorf Auditorium Jill Jonnes, author and historian … Conservancy members, call (847) 835-8261 to receive the registration discount This event is cosponsored by the Garden Conservancy A celebration of urban trees and the …
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… masterfully used blue to create mood, contrast, and meaning. Examine how this versatile hue is applied across different genres in photography and dive into techniques for capturing and enhancing shades of blue. An intermediate level understanding of Lightroom or Photoshop is required. This class will be taught online via Zoom. All registrations must be submitted …
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… The chestnut-leaved oak is so named because its leaves resemble the shape of leaves from the chestnut tree. This oak is native to the Caucasus mountains of Iran. The genus Quercus includes more than 600 species of …
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… clay, which are not ideal, and snow cover to buffer the coldest temperatures in winter is not always available. 'Pillow Party' is one of the few that reliably survive, despite all of the odds stacked against it. From late … plant in acidic, well-drained, moisture-retentive soils in partial shaded locations, and site in the garden to avoid, if possible, cold, dry winter winds. …
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… REGAL PRINCE® oak is a relatively recent introduction that is a cross between the English oak ( Q. robur ) and the swamp white oak ( Q. bicolor ) notable …
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… Mary Rose® English shrub rose ( Rosa 'AUSmary') is a loosely petalled, strongly fragrant, pink double-flowered shrub rose with medium green … wide, but can be pruned to smaller spaces. height, and 3 to 5 feet in breadth. This cultivar is very disease resistant and particularly winter hardy. Mary Rose® was named after Henry VIII's …
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… for its huge sprays of blue-purple flowers that from a distance resemble lilacs. Each floret is a long tube that flares out with swept-back petals, revealing the long stamens. It is only hardy to Zone 8, but it can be grown in northern climates and set outside during the …
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… but its ability to enter summer dormancy makes it remarkably tolerant of heat and drought. It is free of most insect and disease pests. Primula sieboldii is native to swampy meadowlands in Japan, eastern Siberia, Korea, and Manchuria, where it …
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… This cultivated selection of Douglas-fir is a slow-growing miniature globe of short blue-green needles, suitable for a rock garden or … interesting – they hang downward and each cone scale has a three-pointed bract. Douglas fir is native to the Rocky Mountains and along the Pacific Coast; in the Pacific coastal regions, it …
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… THE DARK LADY®, named after the mysterious Dark Lady in Shakespeare's sonnets, is a bushy shrub rose that produces fragrant flowers in a show-stopping red with fuschia … give it full sun or it's crowded too close to other plants for good air circulation. This rose is somewhat disease-prone. In addition, most growers recommend using fertilizer in the …
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