… Create your own warm-season, mixed container suitable for sun or partial shade. Your container may include annuals, perennials, herbs, and decorative foliage. All supplies included. Dress for the weather; class will move indoors if needed. Bring gloves if desired. Lindsey Muscavitch, …
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… Create your own warm-season, mixed container suitable for sun or partial shade. Your container may include annuals, perennials, herbs, and decorative foliage. All supplies included. Dress for the weather; class will move indoors if needed. Bring gloves if desired. Jacob Emrick, …
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… introduced by J. Frank Schmidt & Son Co. of Oregon. It is a male clone, which will not produce the distinctive smelly fruit, and will develop into narrow oval shaped tree. With increased age, it will mature to a large 45' by 25' tree. It could be planted as a specimen or shade tree, and its narrow shape … a maidenhair fern frond. It is one of the most pollution-tolerant trees and works well in the city. Insignificant green flowers appear in the spring. Ginkgo has wonderful yellow fall …
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… BOUQUET™ cultivar of Koreanspice viburnum, produced by JN Select Plants, adapts well to the alkaline soil and frigid winters of the Midwest. It branches and matures at one half to … reaching 4 feet tall by 5 feet wide. Pink buds followed by fragrant white flowers appear in late April to early May and last 10 days to two weeks. Plant in full sun to partial shade …
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… Argentina Skies' anise-scented sage ( Salvia guaranitica 'Argentina Skies') is noted for the sky-blue flowers produced atop this 5-foot, nonhardy perennial. Like other salvias, this … cultivar is a favorite of hummingbirds and butterflies. The scented foliage is disagreeable to deer. Once established, this plant is heat and drought tolerant. …
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… This class will cover all aspects of installing and growing in raised beds. Topics include options for purchasing or building them, appropriate sites and soils, season-extension techniques, plant selection, and intensive planting techniques to maximize crop yields in small spaces. Bill Shores, Shores Garden Consulting Classroom 5, …
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… Deep burgundy red flower spikes at the top of 6 feet tall plant with dark green leaves. This annual from Opopeo, Mexico can be used … component at the back of the flower border and/or as a leaf vegetable (young leaves) or seeds for grinding into flour (fall) or all of the above. Song birds will devour any seeds you miss. Full sun in average soils meets it's growing requirements. May need staking or some other support if …
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… From June until the first hard frost, lavender-blue, button-shaped flowers cover Pineapple Sangria Brazilian … intermedium 'Pineapple Sangria'). This mounded, nonhardy perennial is from Brazil. Named for foliage that smells like pineapple, it repels deer, but the flowers attract butterflies and other pollinating insects. Plant Brazilian button flower in a hot, sunny location. Once established, this plant is drought tolerant. By the end of the …
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… This striking and versatile native plant grows in poor soils, in sun or in part shade, and it’s another of Jill Selinger’s summer favorites. “It … leaves, followed by very ornamental seed pods, which dry and hold nicely, or which can be cut for flower arrangements,” she said. “It seems at home in natural areas, as well as cottage gardens or perennial borders.” At the Garden Location of the Wild Yellow Indigo …
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… Description: This medium-sized, fish-eating bird is often seen perched while searching for small fish, or heard giving a rattling call as it flies from on perch to another. It nests in tunnels it digs into stream or lake banks. …
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