… Carve, wax, stain, or varnish them; paint or dye them; use wood-burning tools on them to create highly decorative objects of art. And they’re utilitarian as well. Many cultures have … lutes, sitars, guitars, drums, and rattles) and birdhouses (North American Indians used them to attract purple martins). You can even make puppets from gourds, turn them into handsome … you can do to wood, and not suffer the splinters. While their origin remains a mystery, there is evidence of gourds in the early civilizations of Africa, Asia, North and South America, …
Type: Plant Info
… Windspiel is a German word meaning wind play, and it refers to the way the wind moves the blooms of this giant plant that can grow to 7 feet tall. A clump-forming ornamental grass that prefers full sun, it has linear green …
Type: Garden Guide Plant
… Sea Foam shrub rose ( Rosa 'Sea Foam') grows to a height of 30 inches with full sun and moderate soil conditions. From mid-June to mid-October, it produces lightly fragrant, double white flowers that tend to blush pink in … 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 needs minimal …
Type: Garden Guide Plant
… Wall germander is a shrubby broad leaf evergreen that forms a clump of 2’ by 2’. It has aromatic, evergreen foliage and pink to purple two-lipped flowers that appear in clusters in late spring to early summer. Pinch the … bushy growth. It prefers average, dry to medium moisture, well-drained soils in full sun. Site in a sheltered location with winter protection to prevent winter die-back. …
Type: Garden Guide Plant
… Native to the 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 Poortviet is an attention getter. Easy to grow, it produces mauve balls of flowers atop 35-inch stems from …
Type: Garden Guide Plant
… Observing patterns is central to predicting weather and understanding climate. We will consider the conditions that meteorologists use to predict weather, and we will create simple models to understand concepts like warm and cold …
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… has a delightfully fragrant tangerine orange color. The large 6½-inch flowers appear in mid to late season. Although each flower lasts only one day, there are multiple buds on each stalk … and several stalks on each plant. The buds open in series, so a single plant will continue to bloom for 2 weeks or more. It is easy to grow and does well in full sun to part shade. …
Type: Garden Guide Plant
… ‘Girard Purple’ is a medium-sized shrub or small tree with a rounded habit. Oblong leaves are initially medium-green changing to a dark green then to orange and crimson in the fall. The flowers are small, fragrant, twisted and crinkled …
Type: Garden Guide Plant
… The Chalk or Whitebark Maple is native to the southern United States from the Carolinas to eastern Texas. It can reach a height of 40 feet. It gets its common name from its smooth, …
Type: Garden Guide Plant
… Clematis ‘Constance’ is a deciduous vine, blooming in mid to late spring with 2- to 4-inch nodding reddish-purple flowers followed by attractive seedheads. The plant grows to 10 …
Type: Garden Guide Plant
