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  • Butterflies & Blooms
    … are immersed in a tropical habitat full of hundreds of colorful butterflies interacting with plant life. Butterflies & Blooms features butterflies from around the world, including South …
    Type: Event for Calendar
  • Small Space Gardening | Online
    … the most of your small gardening space. Create functional and beautiful spaces whether working with a compact garden plot, an outdoor deck, or a sunny windowsill.  Understand how …
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  • Rudbeckia triloba
    … 3-4 feet tall. It has three-lobed leaves. The flowers look like the familiar black-eyed Susan with yellow rays and brown disks, but the rays are much shorter. It can take full or partial …
    Type: Garden Guide Plant
  • Ruellia brittoniana 'Purple Showers'
    … to partially shaded locations, and if provided these conditions, it will reward gardeners with continuous bloom throughout the warm months of the year. Each of the large, purple, …
    Type: Garden Guide Plant
  • Demonstration Baking | Challah Making and Shaping
    … New! Sweet and pillowy challah, made from a dough enriched with eggs and honey, is easy to make and shape at home. Learn about the basics of yeast breads, …
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  • Hands-on Cooking | Stuffed Tomatoes
    … fillings such as pea and wasabi mousse; basil, garlic, and parmesan cream; and spinach with anisette and panko crumbs. Serve the tomatoes on their own as appetizers, or as an …
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  • Native Bees of Illinois
    … Using upcycled materials, you will create a nesting site for different species to take home with you. All supplies included. Bring your own drill gun if you prefer.  Wil Pilipauskas, head …
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  • Sutera cordata 'Balmecoblu'
    … annual that works in the garden as a groundcover or as a cascading plant in hanging baskets. With the largest blue flowers of any of the cultivars, this non-stop bloomer earns it's keep. …
    Type: Garden Guide Plant
  • Symphyotrichum novae-angliae 'Andenken An Alma Potschke'
    … This New England Aster forms a robust semi-woody clump (4 feet tall, 4 feet wide) that blooms with fine-petaled rose-pink flowers from late summer into fall. It is tolerant of wet conditions …
    Type: Garden Guide Plant
  • Symphyotrichum novae-angliae 'Hella Lacy'
    … This New England Aster forms a robust semi-woody clump (5 feet tall, 2 feet wide) that blooms with fine-petaled lavender-blue flowers from late summer into fall. It was named after the wife …
    Type: Garden Guide Plant