… Enhance your love for watercolor through natural paintings. Watercolor is a fresh, beautiful way to express a sunset or the reflection of trees and clouds on a pond. You will learn to make expressive marks, mix …
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… Enhance your love for watercolor through natural paintings. Watercolor is a fresh, beautiful way to express a sunset or the reflection of trees and clouds on a pond. You will learn to make expressive marks, mix …
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… gardens take a cue from natural areas where rocks and stones slide off a bluff and land at the bottom. In those sites, plants sprout up over time in the meager soil and sand that falls or blows in. In … a great example filled with rock garden and alpine plants. Pollinators Interest continues to increase in the plight of pollinators. More people are expected to plant flowers for …
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… around trees, you may be enjoying their late summer serenade. You also may be finding them on the ground. After they emerge from underground burrows, they molt and enter their adult stage. Then they mate, lay eggs, and die. When you find one, you can examine it to learn more about these big bugs. Did you know that cicadas have five eyes? In school we learn that insects have compound eyes, and we use toy bug eye viewers to get a sense of what dragonflies and bees see. But the real picture is a little more complicated. …
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… Celebrating the Garden in Autumn "Wild is the music of the autumnal winds amongst the faded woods." – William Wordsworth … the spicy fall air, and muse about how our gardens performed now that we’re putting them to bed. No matter what happened to the plants—(remember that very wet spring and seemingly …
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… Before heading for mulch piles, these plants take one final star turn. At the Chicago Botanic Garden, even in death, plants have one final performance. As the days … for the mulch pile, these remnants now take a last autumnal bow as art before they return to nourish the living collection. Deaccessioned: Uknown root flare, chestnut mushrooms, mums – … to the soil, nourishing the next generation of the Garden’s living collection. As autumn gives way to winter, The Last Show is a moving reminder that every end feeds a beginning, that decay is …
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… “The wonder of the world, the beauty and the power, the shapes of things, their colours, lights … quickly go dormant—live their life. White trout lilies ( Erythronium albidum ) If you want to see some of the spring woodland flowers in bloom, you often have to be there on the day. In … heat, by vibrating their wing muscles and restricting their blood flow in the thorax, to get themselves flying early in spring before it's warm enough for many other pollinators to go …
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… New! Explore the dark side by learning how to capture images of the night sky such as fireworks, astrophotography (lunar phases, aurora borealis, and the Milky Way), and long exposures of night scenes in urban settings. Learn effective techniques and camera …
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… April's only full moon is lovely enough, but the upcoming one is a gift from nature—and the perfect time to take a night walk. On Monday, April 26, head outside to see the "pink" supermoon. Whether you … for frogs, owls, and whippoorwills. We love moths and other night pollinators . Here’s an easy way to see them and get kids involved: Hold up a white towel or cloth, and shine a …
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… New! For years Marta McDowell has been occupied with writers who garden, and whose horticultural … changed her planting beds as well as her bookshelves. Starting with Mark Twain and connecting to authors ranging from Henry David Thoreau to Louisa May Alcott, this lecture explores the writing-gardening connection. A book sale and signing will follow the talk. Marta McDowell, …
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