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  • … a staple of Middle Eastern and North African cuisine, and they make an impressive edible gift. In this hands-on cooking class, discover how to make and take home a jar of preserved lemons. Learn to use the lemons in farro and preserved lemon salad. Emily Paster, cookbook author and blogger ITW Kitchen, …
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  • … shrub offers flower power beyond the summer months. Its whitish-green flowers change to pink in late summer, eventually turning tan and adding interest in the winter landscape. “This one is a little more compact-growing than some of the other …
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  • … orchid, its name is Latin for “bearing a hook,” referring to the spur found on all six plants in this Himalayan genus. Explorers brought this orchid to England, where it was named by John Lindley, considered the father of orchid taxonomy, in 1859. …
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  • … discuss with WT Literary Manager Bobby Kennedy the styles of landscape architecture depicted in the play, including where to find examples of them in Chicagoland. Click here to reserve your seat . …
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  • … The show celebrates the richness of fall mushrooms in Illinois. Exhibits 50 to 100 varieties of mushrooms foraged from area forests in the days prior to the show. Members of the Illinois Mycological Association provide …
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  • … centered with a white spot near the base. The white stamens are bunched together and tipped in yellow. According to Odyssey Bulbs, it appeared as a spontaneous seedling in the garden of Arnis Seisums. Aethra was a figure from Greek mythology. …
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  • … lucilliae is an upright-growing bulb producing showy blue flowers with white centers in March and April. The leaves are narrow, thick, and dark green. It reaches a maximum height of … full sun to partial shade with moderate moisture conditions. The plant is ideal as a specimen in a border. It is resistant to deer. …
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  • … young and cooked like spinach for a nutritious dish. Songbirds flock to the ripe seeds in fall. Plant in full sun and average soils after danger from late spring freezes have passed. …
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  • … Brick red to orange flowers appear in winter and into early spring on a single unbranched flower stalk. The gray-green leaves … the leaf edges. This cultivar suckers freely and can produce a mass of rosettes up to 2 feet in height and equal width. …
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  • … plants feature burgundy, red, pink, orange, yellow or white flowered spikes of blooms in spring and, if the summers are cool, continuously up to frost in the fall. Vigorous, heat-tolerant plants reach a uniform height and are topped by …
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