… Description: A fairly common migrant and breeder here. Look for it in any wooded habitat on migration or in McDonald Woods in summer. …
Type: Birding
… Wednesday, September 14, 2016 TICKETS FOR HARVEST CIDER ARE NO LONGER AVAILABLE Autumn Brews tickets on October 13 are on sale now. …
Type: Event for Calendar
… New! Watercolor is perfect for winter: crisp white paper, long crystalline-blue shadows, landscapes transformed by mounds of … children bundled up in bright colors. Let’s explore all these themes in eight weeks dedicated to snow. We’ll work from photos, and, snow-permitting, wander through the Garden to experience winter light at its most seductive. Fran Vail will lead you step-by-step through …
Type: Item Detail
… Hang around with the experts at the Enabling Garden and perhaps they can point one out to you. Look for this tundra-breeder traveling in a flock of common redpolls or goldfinches and siskins. This rare visitor is most likely to be found in alders or birches in winter feeding on seeds in cones and catkins. …
Type: Birding
… will explore basic composition along with some of the better-known smartphone apps and how to use them for nature photography. We will go over smartphone photography and do some fieldwork, and then … the photos taken during class, discussing how they can be enhanced, manipulated, or altered to create a personal statement. Curiosity and a smartphone are mandatory. | Classroom 4, Learning …
Type: Item Detail
… New! Advance your skills by acquiring the techniques and methods for successfully drawing white flowers on white paper. Learn how to see subtle colors reflected on white objects and express them through a range of warm and cool colors. You will also gain the skills necessary to tackle the rich shadow colors. Prerequisite: Colored Pencil Workshop, Colored Pencil Drawing …
Type: Item Detail
… the summer. This self-sowing columbine is an outstanding understory woodland wildflower for late spring color, where it brings unique color to the native garden. Classified into the buttercup family, columbines have complex flowers including five petals with long spurs. This is the only species native to the states east of the Mississippi River. …
Type: Garden Guide Plant
… This cultivar is actually a strain of mixed cultivars that range from cherry to deep red, frequently with darker spots on the petals. Red lady lenten rose grows well in moist … In most winters, the evergreen foliage is damaged and can be removed as the flowers start to push up through the soil without harming the plant. This is a great selection for gardens plagued by deer and rabbits, as all parts taste bad (toxic if consumed in very large …
Type: Garden Guide Plant
… the flowers on an orange tree. ROMANTIC KNIGHT™ Mock Orange is a large shrub that grows to about twelve feet tall and wide. It has a clumping growth habit with long branches that arch … spring it is covered with flower spikes that carry numerous scented white flowers that are up to two inches in size. Once the flowers have faded this shrub is a useful green backdrop for summer and fall flowering plants. …
Type: Garden Guide Plant
… Narcissus ‘Chiva’ is in Division 7. It has 1 to 5 small one inch flowers on each stem. The petals and the corona are yellow. The bulbs are … 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 own reflection. When he …
Type: Garden Guide Plant
