… 2022 Latin Grammy nominees, Los Tangueros del Oeste, are steeped in the nuevo tango styles of Astor Piazzolla, Gotan Project, and Bajo Fondo. The group blends … Sascha Jacobsen ( Trio Garufa , The Musical Art Quintet ), Alma Vieja is at once an album for tango lovers and an opening for all listeners into this magical world. This concert …
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… Although it's called Japanese monkshood, this variety is native to open woodlands in both Japan and Korea. While it prefers dappled sun, it can handle full sun as long as it has … late fall with light purple-blue flowers. Aconitums are commonly known as monkshood, because the upper sepal of each flower resembles the hoods of medieval monks. They attract a variety of …
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… brightly colored, downward-angled, red-orange flowers and attractive variegated foliage. The waxy leaves have sunken pores that prevent water loss. Burgersfort Aloe, or Aloe burgersfortensis is very similar to two of its closer spotted aloe relatives and is only distinguished from the other similar … size and longer floral bracts and pedicels. Recently, by authors H.F. Glen and D.S. Hardy in 2000, it was combined with Aloe parvibracteata . Burgersfort Aloe's native habitat in South …
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… The Boynton oak is an endangered species native to a very small area in Alabama near Lookout Mountain and can be found among sandstone outcroppings. It is generally a … (biennial). Oaks are often imposing shade trees at maturity and provide habitat and food for a variety of wildlife. …
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… Sea holly ( Eryngium 'Big Blue') dazzles the eye with iridescent blue flowers with blue stems and leaves in an inflorescence resembling a candelabra. Flowers continue to be produced over a long flowering period. Four inch-diameter bracts surround the central cone …
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… is a form of kousa dogwood with somewhat larger white flower bracts, fruit and leaves than the species. Abundant white flowers in late spring are followed by red fruit in summer and red-orange foliage in the fall. Members of … -- be it flowers, fruit, foliage, and/or bark -- and their range of forms from small trees to suckering shrubs. The dominant display, however, varies among the species. Dogwoods are native …
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… Native to the West Indies, coastal northern South America, and Panama, Barbados gooseberry is frequently grown as an ornamental or for its fruits in the American tropics, Bermuda, California, Hawaii, Israel, the Philippines, India, and …
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… Northern or Prairie Dropseed is widely regarded as the most attractive of the American prairie grasses. It is a clumping warm season grass with bright green leaves and delicate flower spikes that appear in late summer and early fall. The clump can grow to about 3 feet high and 3 feet wide. The fragrant flowers are a pinkish brown which mature to a …
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… A spreading low to intermediate ground cover. The attractive silvery-blue foliage has a lacy appearance when allowed to grow naturally. Useful for massing or as a ground cover. …
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… The giant snowdrop ( Galanthus elwesii ) is among the first of the very early spring-blooming plants in the Chicago region. As winter eases its grip, these diminutive porcelain-white jewels spring … up in turf, flower beds, and deciduous woodlands. In sunlight, the three outer petals flare to reveal the inner fused petals with their intricate green colorations. Simultaneously, the …
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