… Plant or Insect Identification Plant information Service routinely asks visitors to submit plant samples for accurate diagnoses and … Blight, a devastating fungal disease that affects these plants. Please feel free to contact us with questions on Boxwood Blight without bringing plant samples to the Garden. You can also click here for more information on Boxwood Blight . Email the Plant Information service for plant identification, or contact the Plant Information service during business hours …
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Discover how to use three basic elements—color, texture, and form—to create a garden setting that is visually engaging. Discover colorful foliage and flowers from a wide palette of annuals, perennials, and shrubs that can light up a shade garden or enhance a sunny border. Please bring a sack lunch. Nina Koziol, garden writer, and Marcy Stewart-Pyziak, horticulturist, The Gardener’s Tutor …
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New! Using the science of color theory and optics, this class will explore and deconstruct the richness of color found in nature. Study will include an introduction to light and color, paint mixing, observation, and technique for depicting the natural world. Techniques in water-based media, including acrylic, gouache, and water-based colored pencils will be used to develop rich color …
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… Tequia Burt grows heirloom collard greens in her Chicago garden. Earlier this year, I read with great interest the story of the Heirloom Collard Project , a community of seed savers, … greens. Through the collective, I realized that there are tons of varieties of collards (with names like Big Daddy Old Fashioned, Green Glaze, Hardheaded, and Henpecked) that I'd never … were allowed to cultivate, collards became a part of the African American culinary tradition, with every household featuring their own tweaks to the recipe (see my grandmother’s to the …
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… about listing his top picks. Spending his first summer in Glencoe, Douglas is especially taken with the variety of oaks at the Garden. The horticulturist points out the deep purple leaves on … smaller landscapes. He describes Regal Prince as a hybrid oak that is columnar in shape. Along with a similar hybrid, Kindred Spirit ( Quercus × warei ‘Nadler’), it is readily available in … oak in a home landscape, either is a good option to consider.” Douglas credits his fascination with the oak species as his entry point into the field of horticulture. During an internship at …
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… Discover tips for layering textures and flavors while mastering recipes like spinach salad with lentils and quinoa, red leaf lettuce with wild rice and grapes, and romaine with quinoa and beans. Each salad is paired with a unique, delicious dressing and allows you to …
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… Dwarf Conifer Garden Even in the darkest days of winter, dwarf conifers hold fast to colors including blues and silvers and to thick, fragrant branches. On a gentle slope, … This four-season garden includes trees that are fragrant year-round, as well as conifers with eye-catching shapes (the globe-shaped center of Little Gem arborvitae, for example) and … to be shed easily. Climb to the top of the steps to see the smallest dwarf conifers, along with a hilltop view of the Elizabeth Hubert Malott Japanese Garden and the Great Basin. The …
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… floriography—the language of flowers—was all the rage. Guides like this one endowed bouquets with a whole new cultural meaning, allowing the sender to craft a message and the recipient to … were translated to Latin and published in northeastern Italy many centuries later, with this printing completed in 1483. The book explains the first known classifications of plants … Nature by Henriette Antoinette Vincent, 1820 Madame Vincent’s tulip illustration, complete with butterfly and dew drops This French book of botanical illustrations features 48 color plates …
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