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  • … Description:  This rare shorebird is most likely to be seen on large lawn areas or on the gravel hill prairie in the Dixon Prairie. …
    Type: Birding
  • … 'Ramapo' is a smaller rhododendron, growing to a height of 3’ and width of 4’. It blooms in early spring …
    Type: Garden Guide Plant
  • … This pyramidal shrub needs full sun and moderate moisture conditions to reach a height of 6 feet. It is a specimen shade tree. The cones attract birds. …
    Type: Garden Guide Plant
  • … This pyramidal evergreen conifer needs full sun and moderate moisture conditions to reach a height of more than 40 feet. It is a specimen shade tree. …
    Type: Garden Guide Plant
  • … This clump-forming evergreen shrub needs full sun and moist soil conditions to reach a height of 3 feet. It is a specimen in a hedge or a border. …
    Type: Garden Guide Plant
  • … Cercis ), tuliptree ( Liriodendron ) and many others. Description & Symptoms Verticillium wilt is a soil-borne fungal disease that plugs the vascular system of woody plants. Symptoms include … can appear on the same plant. The sapwood of an infected branch may contain dark streaks. To check for this symptom, cut a cross-section of a thumb-sized branch and look for darkened … live in the soil and enter plants through the roots. Infection occurs most frequently in cool to warm weather. Incidence of disease subsides during hot weather. The fungus survives in the …
    Type: Plant Info
  • … Vanilla Cream false indigo is notable for its compact habit and soft yellow buds that open to creamy blooms on 10" spikes. … of Baptisia . Members of the genus Baptisia are commonly known as wild or false indigo due to their use by early Americans as a blue dye. Although "indigo" is in the common name, the …
    Type: Garden Guide Plant
  • … a tree or falling out of one, walking in a dense forest, or finding that tree that seemed to speak to you. Treewhispers is an ongoing, international collaboration "awakening our heart-felt connection to trees." …
    Type: Event for Calendar
  • … a tree or falling out of one, walking in a dense forest, or finding that tree that seemed to speak to you. Treewhispers is an ongoing, international collaboration "awakening our heart-felt connection to trees." …
    Type: Event for Calendar
  • … Glenluce Bloody Cranesbill is a perennial that grows to about 12 inches high with a slightly wider spread.  It prefers full sun to partial shade and moderate soil conditions.  From late spring to early summer it produces …
    Type: Garden Guide Plant