… your landscape painting this summer. Discover how painters think about composition and color in nature. A brief review of color and light will help you represent the landscape. You will create small paintings in the medium of your choice, such as gouache, acrylic, and oil. Color drawing materials …
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… Lady Doorly's morning glory ( Ipomoea horsfalliae ) throughout the Chicago winters when grown in a conservatory. This nonhardy perennial morning glory from the West Indies can get really … much larger than the others. It's hardy from USDA Zones 9 to 13; plant this morning glory in moderately fertile, well-drained soil, and provide a support for the stems to twine around. …
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… (created by a waxy covering), and their shape (reduced surface area), are adaptations seen in many plants native to very dry regions. Unlike most of the other plant species native to Saudi Arabia and Somalia, kleinia aster tolerates the relatively higher humidity found in the Garden's Arid Greenhouse. …
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… is a pollinator magnet with special importance to migrating hummingbirds and butterflies in the fall. Full sun in well-drained soils that dry between waterings are ideal conditions for this plant. This …
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… New! Create your own unique textiles using natural dye. In this hands-on workshop series, you will learn the process of preparing textiles for natural dyeing and use a variety of direct applications of dye to cotton, silk, and thread. In later classes, try your hand at a variety of embroidery stitches to embellish your fabric …
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… New! Enjoy inspiration from the cuisine of Germany in this hands-on cooking class. You will learn how to make a tender, succulent pork schnitzel coated in toasted breadcrumbs; light and fluffy spaetzle (little egg dumplings) with parsley and butter; …
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… to mid-October, it produces lightly fragrant, double white flowers that tend to blush pink in cooler weather. The small, glossy, deep green leaves are disease resistant. Introduced in 1963, this is one of the first cultivars to be informally described as a landscape rose (it …
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… explorers of Canada, ‘Henry Hudson’ is a rugosa rose with pink buds that open to white flowers in May through October. It grows to 5 feet tall and has wrinkled dark green foliage. Canadian … Series roses are known for their winter hardiness, disease resistance and repeat blooms. Grow in full sun to part shade and provide adequate moisture and good air circulation. …
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… useful as a pillar rose. The flowers are cupped, fully double, magenta, and scented. It blooms in early summer and again in fall. As a shrub, it grows to 4 feet high, but because of its trailing habit, it can be used …
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… intensely fragrant, upright hybrid tea rose. Bred by Alain Meilland, it was introduced in France in 1992 by Meilland International and offered as a birthday gift to Sir Paul McCartney on his …
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