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- … species and varieties of Colchicum grow in the Graham Bulb Garden. Flower colors range from white to magenta-violet, and include doubles and bicolors. Colchicum cilicum Colchicum …Type: Blog
- … be hanging around for a couple of weeks, so come over and say hello. Photo by Tony Hisgett from Birmingham, UK [ CC BY 2.0 ], via Wikimedia Commons Photo by Tucson Botanical (Own work) [ …Type: Blog
- … giant flower heads of their springtime relatives, but still provide a welcome change of pace from the more common flowers of summer. The Asiatic lilies are just starting to bloom in the …Type: Blog
- … Cucurbita maxima ‘Queensland Blue’ is not often seen growing in the field. While they hail from South America, the blue squash varietals grow equally as well in Australia (for which they … flesh and a thin skin. Purchase Porcelain Doll ( Cucurbita moschata ‘Porcelain Doll’) seed from Pink Pumpkin Patch Foundation . Cucurbita moschata ‘Porcelain Doll’ is a pink "cheese" …Type: Blog
- … to know that it has been raining lately. My phone has been ringing off the hook with calls from the Illinois Poison Center requesting help with potential mushroom poisoning cases. I helped … lawn mower’s mushroom, is also nonedible. (Photo with permission Michael Kuo, mushroomexpert.com .) Not all mushrooms growing in lawns are toxic. But the only way to tell is to know what …Type: Blog
- … homemade cards, gift tags, etc. Directions: Gather your favorite flowers—if the blooms come from your own garden, all the better for gift purposes. Choose bright ones without blemishes. The …Type: Blog
- … plots at University of Michigan-Flint. At Chicago Botanic Garden, we have treatments ranging from traditional turfgrass lawns, to fine fescue lawns which should require less water and … at University of Michigan-Flint). For more information, please see www.rethinkinglawns.com . All artwork on our signs and website is by Liz Anna Kozik. This research is funded by the …Type: Research
- … clothes out of mycelium . Adidas recently unveiled the Stan Smith Mylo shoe , partially made from a mycelium-based material that reportedly looks and feels like leather. And French fashion …Type: Blog
- … is, if you’ll excuse the expression, mushrooming, as growing numbers of people seek food from local, sustainable—and even foraged—sources. Thanks to a vibrant network of farmers’ markets …Type: Blog
- … grandma’s hydrangeas, neighborhood trees you climbed as a child, or a plant in a habitat far from home that stoked your curiosity about the natural world. Maybe it’s the first houseplant you … and saw the value in protecting that little strip of botanical diversity.” Thanks to support from teachers, Sollenberger majored in botany and minored in art. Find his beautiful prairie …Type: Blog