Description: Eurasian Collared-Doves are a little larger than a mourning dove with a squared-off tail instead of a pointed tail, like a mourning dove. They are light brown, similar to the mourning dove with a black crescent shaped band around the back of the neck. The primary feathers are a darker brown than the rest of the wing, so gives a dark wing tip appearance. These birds were introduced to …
Type: Birding
New! Learn to animate and enliven your watercolor painting by incorporating human or animal figures into the landscape. The figures will provide a focal point that adds interest, storytelling, scale, and perspective to your paintings. Learn techniques to simplify the figure and gesture in your artwork. Prerequisite: Previous watercolor coursework or experience recommended. The School’s CEUs=17.5 …
Type: Item Detail
The Norway Maple is native to eastern and central Europe as well as southwest Asia. It is a medium sized deciduous tree that can reach a height and width of 50 feet. It is extremely hardy and tolerant of a wide range of soil and moisture conditions, but prefers dry conditions once established. It is also tolerant of street pollution. It has pointed, lobed leaves which are a "typical" maple shape …
Type: Garden Guide Plant
Chartreuse green cordate (heart shaped) leaves cover stems that can grow to 10 feet in height in USDA zones 7 and warmer if given partial to full shade and moderate moisture conditions. Flowering rarely occurs, and then only on stems that have grown vertically a minimum of 8 feet at which point the juvenile chartreuse leaves become dark green and much larger in size. Apetally (without petals) …
Type: Garden Guide Plant
It has nice glossy green needles and a strong pyramidal growth habit with pendulous lower branches that give it a very graceful appearance. Use it as a specimen plant. The cones are interesting -- each cone scale has a three-pointed bract. A well-grown Douglas fir in a snowclad winter landscape is a sight to behold. Douglas fir is native to mountainous areas of the West Coast; in the Pacific …
Type: Garden Guide Plant
… Members of the genus Cornus , commonly known as dogwoods, are welcome in the home garden for their multi-season interest -- be it flowers, fruit, foliage, and/or bark -- and their range …
Type: Garden Guide Plant
… master ( Eryngium yuccifolium ) is one of a group of plants in the carrot family known for clumps of pale green, prickly leaves, and spiny, spherical flowerheads. It has clusters of 16 …
Type: Garden Guide Plant
… toxic and will not be eaten by deer or rabbits. The name Narcissus comes from the Greek word for narcotic and is tied to the myth of a young man known as Narcissus who fell in love with his …
Type: Garden Guide Plant
… In November, I had the unique opportunity to go to the Portland Japanese Garden for a week-long training session—and what a week it was! I arrived in Portland in early November, … garden, but in Portland, one gardener told me that moss will start to grow if you sit still for ten minutes. The tools I used to rake and clean were very efficient, but at the same time … and pavilions take precedence and frame vistas, while stone courtyards mark transition points between the architectural environment and nature. This garden gives a wonderful sense of …
Type: Blog
… white that attract butterflies and other pollinators. Although wild asters have a reputation for looking lanky or weedy rather than bushy and compact, their seeds are an important food source for birds in winter. Symphyotrichum ‘Bridal Veil’ Symphyotrichum o blongifolium ‘October Skies’ … for its intense lavender-blue flowers. Learn more about the Garden’s aster evaluation . Visit the Garden's Dixon Tallgrass Prairie in autumn to view thousands of New England asters in …
Type: Plant Info
