… Description: This state-endangered migrant is rarely seen on Marsh Island in the Dixon Prairie or in shoreline vegetation. …
Type: Birding
… Description: If this rare member of the vireo family is seen, it would be in shrubs along the lakes. …
Type: Birding
… Description: This plain-looking, long-winded songster is most often found in large cottonwoods where it builds its nests. …
Type: Birding
… Description: This year-round Garden resident is most often found in the McDonald Woods or Barbara Brown Nature Reserve. …
Type: Birding
… Aretha to Sly Stone. These songs are always sure to bring smiling faces in the crowd. The band is powerful, the songs are unforgettable, as Generation brings a performance that makes the audience part of the excitement and fun happening on stage. …
Type: Event for Calendar
… of acacia has been a favorite of the florist industry for decades. Grow this plant in full sun and in dry-ish soils that are neutral to slightly acidic—this is one of the few acacias that can not tolerate soils with high alkalinity. It flowers in …
Type: Garden Guide Plant
… wide basal rosette. The narrow gray green leaves have small sharp spines along the edges and some pink or red variegation. A stem bearing the purple or red flowers crowned with green … fruits but eventually join together forming a single pineapple fruit. The ripe fruit is not edible for humans. …
Type: Garden Guide Plant
… wide range of insects. This stunning specimen plant typically lives for 3 to 4 years. The sap is known to cause allergic dermatitis, and an extract of the roots contains chemicals with coumadin-like (blood thinning) effects that …
Type: Garden Guide Plant
… Callicarpa japonica , or Japanese beautyberry, is one of the stars of the fall garden, with its rounded clusters of metallic-purple berries … moisture. During most winters in the Chicago area, the stems will sustain freeze damage and should be cut to within a few inches of the soil surface in late winter. …
Type: Garden Guide Plant
… Marsh bellflower is a strange little native plant that doesn't look like a bellflower at all. Needle-like leaves … white, with a thin lavender-blue line down the center. The flowers have long pedicels (stalks) and are solitary or in small clusters. …
Type: Garden Guide Plant
