… Related to the American elder, 'Guincho Purple' is grown mainly for its bright leaves. This cultivar has dark green leaves, turning blackish purple and then red in autumn, and pink-tinged flat umbels of flowers with purple stalks. This plant makes a nice shrub suitable …
Type: Garden Guide Plant
… This plant is a type of willow tree that has stems that are bright green in the winter time, even when it … used to make baskets too! Green dicks purple osier willow can grow to about sixteen feet tall and about eight feet wide but this tree is usually coppiced (cut back very severely in late … so that it stays at about six to eight feet tall. When coppiced, the stems stay quite thin and pliable and are suitable for fine basketry. After the leaves fall in the winter the stems …
Type: Garden Guide Plant
… A. It’s not too early to think about the holidays if you are considering a living balled- and-burlapped or container holiday tree this season. Successful transition of the tree from … eventual home. Keep the tree’s mature size in mind when determining placement. Once the hole is dug, if freezing temperatures are predicted, move the soil into a garage or other warm … longer than seven to 10 days at most. It should be placed in a cool room, away from drafts and warm air vents. When selecting your tree, take its size and weight into consideration. The …
Type: Plant Info
… 'Blue Mouse Ears' is a miniature (8 inches tall, 12 inches wide) hosta with round blue-green leaves. The thick … for 2008 by the American Hosta Growers Association. Hostas are shade tolerant, easy to grow and long-lived. Although they produce flowers held high above the foliage on long stalks called scapes, they are grown primarily for their foliage and neat habit. They are actively hybridized for leaf size, shape, color and texture; natural …
Type: Garden Guide Plant
… Winter once brought a dependable rhythm: cold settled in, snow piled up, and plants took a seasonal rest. But in northern Illinois, that rhythm is shifting. Winters are warming, shrinking, and becoming less predictable. We still get bitter cold snaps and heavy snowfalls, but those …
Type: Blog
… New! Chocolate is the most popular flavor in baked goods. Featured baking techniques include tempering chocolate and making meringue. Help scoop cookies and learn how to make three delicious desserts, including tipsy turtle bark, chocolate white …
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… Walk into the Garden and discover portraits that reveal a message. We will search for stories of people, take authentic portraits, and create candid to abstract portraits. A digital camera with aperture priority and shutter speed priority is required. Intermediate level. FPC fundamental course, fine art track Dianne Kittle, fine art …
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… Pullman Room This workshop, brought to you by the Chicago Chapter of Ikebana International and taught by Ilse Beunen, will highlight the concept of Wabi Sabi, a sense of the transitory nature of all things, impermanence and a feeling of melancholy that fits with the fall season. It is both a mood and an important Japanese aesthetic concept. …
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… Indiana Dunes National Park, shares information about local National Park Service locations and resources. Learn more about historic Chellberg Farm—from the garden to the livestock including steers, heifers, nanny goats and kids, pigs, chickens, and turkeys. Chellberg Farm is part of Indiana Dunes National Park . …
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… The Central States Dahlia Society presents its annual dahlia plant and root sale featuring dahlias in an array of sizes, shapes, and colors. This is a great opportunity to purchase dahlias seen on display at the annual show in September. …
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