… Explore how to select, arrange, and position perennials in full-sun combinations. Build your design recipes by maximizing and extending color and texture … two days before your class starts. Registered students will receive login instructions one day in advance. The School’s CEUs=2 hours GDC elective Mark Dwyer, owner, Landscape Prescriptions …
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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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… each with a brown terminal spike. The leaf margins are entire but may have small white spines. In summer, it bears erect or curved racemes 12 to 15 feet long and creamy white flowers sometimes tinged purple. It is found in California and northern and western Mexico …
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… northern hemisphere and named for the Latin word for garlic, alliums have adapted to climates in every part of the world. Ornamental alliums are distinctive plants grown from bulbs, and Rien … to grow, it produces mauve balls of flowers atop 35-inch stems from May to June. Plant bulbs in the fall. They prefer full sun, attract butterflies, and are resistant to deer. …
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… silvery sheen. A native to Mexico and South America, this tropical gem can grow to 2 to 4 feet in height, but when grown in a container as a houseplant, it will only reach a third of that size. …
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… The leaves are equally dramatic - dark green, puckered, and outlined with light green veins in the characteristic zebra plant pattern. It’s happy outdoors in Florida, where it gets the sun and humidity it wants, but elsewhere it’s a houseplant that has …
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… tube on this short-lived perennial. This plant is ideal for sun or partial shaded locations in the garden, where they can be allowed to naturalize. Plant it in moderately fertile, moist soils, and permit the plants to mature and disperse their seeds at …
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… a small point on a plant that can reach a fairly good size. Stout flowering stalks are covered in clouds of smallish pink flowers, a dainty contrast to the bold textured leaves. Rhizomatous … If provided these conditions, plus an annual rest period and a periodic trim to keep them in shape, they can grow happily for years. …
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… its cultivars (like Pullman) are hardy for this climate. 'Pullman' grows to about 7 feet high in full sun to partial shade and moderate moisture conditions. In early spring it produces greenish cream-colored blooms. Resistant to deer, it can be used as a …
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… landscape tree and, due to its dwarf narrow shape, dwarf columnar hornbeam fits nicely in the home garden. It is a slow-growing upright deciduous tree with dense, compact foliage that … and 1 1/2 feet wide and prefers full sun to part shade. Its small green leaves turn yellow in the fall, lending striking color to the garden. Used as a hedge or screen, it needs very …
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