… Spend the evening learning about warm-season vegetables and herbs to grow in your summer garden. We will touch on soil amendments, hybrid and heirloom crop … techniques, pest and disease control, and effective harvesting procedures. A Garden walk is included. Dress for the weather. Riley Finnegan, horticulturist, Chicago Botanic Garden Fruit …
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… New! What’s the best part of a taco? The tortilla! In this hands-on class, learn to make delicious corn tortillas from scratch. Then, fill your taco with battered and fried fish … fixings including fresh slaw with cilantro and onions, and chipotle crema. After all, no taco is complete without scrumptious fillings. Hector Pérez, founder/owner, HungryMinds ITW Kitchen …
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… under the names "Blackmoor's Beauty" and "Mournful Widow". Under any name, in any age, it is a striking annual for incorporation among perennials or for use in annual displays. Full sun and average soils are keys to success. …
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… This plant may be found in the wild, but is introduced (native to , not invasive). The plant forms a 6” mat with stems 10” long. The …
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… This thyme species is used as a ground cover (it will tolerate light foot traffic and release a wonderful herby … thymes, this one isn’t suitable for cooking; the fragrance can be overpowering. It can grow to 12" tall and 18” wide. It blooms in late summer/early fall with violet purple flowers that …
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… Large-flowered trillium, also known as wood lily and wake robin, is a woodland plant native to the forests of North America, growing as far north as Quebec to as far south as Alabama and Georgia. A spring bloomer, it produces leaves, petals, and sepals, …
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… Rosa gallica was first famous as the medicinal “apothecary’s rose,” the oil of which was said to cure many maladies. In the late fifteenth century, it became the symbolic red rose of the House of Lancaster, a faction then fighting to rule England (in a battle later called the War of the Roses). ‘Versicolor’ is naturally striped. Alba Rose; White Rose of York Rosa x alba 'Alba Maxima' The White Rose of …
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… blooms on long racemes above attractive compact mounded foliage. This cultivar is part of the DECADENCE® series of baptisias developed by Walters Gardens in Michigan. Members of the genus Baptisia are commonly known as wild or false indigo due to their use by early Americans as a blue dye. Although "indigo" is in the common name, the … are followed in the fall by dark pods. Overall habits of the plant are broad-rounded mounds to vase-shaped and range in height from two to five feet. Baptisia are considered easy-to-grow, …
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… flower spikes on charcoal stems above a vase-shaped mound of blue-green foliage. This cultivar is part of the DECADENCE® series of baptisia developed by Walters Gardens. Members of the genus Baptisia are commonly known as wild or false indigo due to their use by early Americans as a blue dye. Although "indigo" is in the common name, the … are followed in the fall by dark pods. Overall habits of the plant are broad-rounded mounds to vase-shaped and range in height from two to five feet. Baptisia are considered easy-to-grow, …
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