… driveways, parkways, alleys). Find bayberry in: Home Landscape Garden, Rose Garden Bloom from April to July. Carolina allspice ( Calycanthus floridus ) Speaking of scent, the star … have a wonderfully informative and organized website for willow hunters — yes, you can order from them, too. Find dwarf willows in: Home Landscape Garden, West Collections Karen Zaworski …
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… developing measures of success and best practices for ex situ plant conservation programs, from collecting genetically diverse seed accessions to minimizing genetic change during storage … projects are carried out in collaboration with graduate students. I have worked with students from programs at Northwestern University, the University of Illinois at Chicago, and the …
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… workers. Baker has a bachelor's of science degree with honors in agronomy and horticulture from the University of Arizona. She also has completed graduate course work in both horticulture … and the Arizona Native Plant Society, where she fell in love with the public garden world. From there, she had an internship at the Desert Museum and later was employed as a landscape …
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… excellence. As a lifelong gardener, some of Soulsby's best horticulture education has come from practical hands-on gardening that included working as a child alongside his dad. His love of … Soulsby was a director at a global financial institution. He has a bachelor of science from Bradley University, where he earned his degree in business management and administration. He …
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… is that it blooms once after 25 to 30 years of growth. The Garden’s century plant came from The Huntington Library, Art Collections, and Botanical Gardens in San Marino in 1993. Native … coverage. The century plant is propagated by detaching and transplanting the well-rooted pups from the base, by plantlets formed on the flower spike, or by germinating the seeds that are …
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… to ensure that the future of STEMM reflects the diversity of the human population and benefits from the talents and strengths of women. Upon learning that she was admitted into the prestigious … about Dr. Skogen’s participation in the Homeward Bound Project visit: https://www.skogeninstem.com/ Photo: Women from the second cohort of Homeward Bound pose with the Homeward Bound flag and continental …
Type: Research
… what I am referring to when I say “leap year.” “Lep Year”—“lep” being short for Lepidoptera (from the Latin “scaly wing”), the order of insects that includes butterflies and moths. It has … The very large moths in the family Saturniidae (silkworms and royal moths) emerge either from the soil, in the case of the Imperial moth, or from one of the familiar large cocoons you can find attached to a twig, like those of the …
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… you take isn’t getting sprayed with herbicides—which is why I recommend only harvesting weeds from your own yard, or places you know have uncontaminated soil (and aren’t sprayed). It’s also … be upsetting to the stomach or downright deadly. Others, of course, you can easily recognize from a distance, like yellow wood sorrel. Oxalis stricta Oxalis stricta , also known as yellow … clover, is an annual weed that you can find anywhere…and everywhere. It spreads aggressively from its seedpods—which can explode on contact! It only takes a brief sampling of the leaf to …
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… of most soils and weather conditions—just be sure it gets some water every week to keep it from becoming bitter. Maintaining flavor Mints spread in two ways: by runners and by seed. However, many plants are hybrids, which means the sprouts that shoot up from the broadcast seed will probably not be the same as the plant you bought. To keep that … they have flowered, but before they drop seed. This causes the plant to bush out and spread from the roots only. Mmm-Mmm mint julep—a Kentucy Derby favorite! Photo by Bill Bishoff Choosing …
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… pink flowers of the salmon gladiolus (Gladiolus oppositiflorus spp. salmoneus). Hailing from areas of the cold, higher elevations of the Drakensberg Mountains of South Africa that get … The beautiful, red-flowered Gladiolus saundersii is also native to the Drakensbergs, but from a higher, colder, and snowier habitat. And a third selection is probably a close relative …
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