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  • … Crew Members Windy City Harvest Apprenticeship Crew Members To read more about the Apprenticeship program participants, please click below. Windy City … Windy City Harvest Apprenticeship Crew Members To read more about the Apprenticeship program participants, please click below. Windy City …
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  • … Markets   Windy City Harvest Markets The produce available at the following markets is grown at GAP certified Windy City Harvest urban farm sites using … grocery store selling seasonal, locally grown produce, plants, seeds, and products to the community.   PCC Austin Farm Stand Located at PCC Austin Family Health Center 330 N. Lotus …   Windy City Harvest Markets The produce available at the following markets is grown at GAP certified Windy City Harvest urban …
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  • … Ostrich fern is an upright, arching, deciduous fern that is easy to grow in damp to wet soil in partial to full shade—it can also tolerate a fair amount of sun. One of the largest and most popular of the ferns, it grows 2-3 feet in most gardens but can reach 6 feet …
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  • … Bronzy orange leaves form a water holding cup in the center of this bromeliad native to northern South America. The tip and leaf edges are …
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  • … Masses of small yellow flowers create a billowy accent in the garden that augments the beautiful maiden-hair fern shaped leaves that are the main … edge of shaded areas in moisture retentive soils. The flowering stems can be reduced in length to modify the height to fit the landscape design. An elegant alternative to maiden hair ferns …
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  • … Corkscrew flower ( Vigna caracalla ) blooms from the end of July up to the first frost of fall. Highly fragrant (reminiscent of hyacinths), white, corkscrew-shaped … to purple-pink. This member of the pea family (Fabaceae) is a vine that can reach 20 feet in height in a single growing season when grown in full sun, in well-drained but moist soils, and …
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  • … Phlox pilosa is sometimes known as downy phlox due to the soft white hairs along the stems and leaves. It grows in a clump typically 12 - 16 inches high and blooms from May to July with fragrant, pink to pale …
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  • The Agave filifera , in bloom in the Arid Greenhouse, is one of the few known to flower in cultivation. The threadlike appendages …
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  • … Echium fastuosum or Pride of Madeira, is a member of the Boraginaceae family, featuring spikes of blue flowers in spring. A native of the island of Madeira in the Canary Island chain, this species has escaped … dermatitis in susceptible individuals; the hairs on the dead leaves are especially annoying to gardeners trying to pick up leaf litter in their gardens. Hardy to temperatures in the
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  • … This maple is also known as Acer cappadocicum var. cappacodicum or the Cappadocian Maple. It is native to Turkey, the Caucasus and northern Iran. It can grow to a height of 20 feet with a spread of 10 feet. The foliage emerges yellow in spring, matures to green by summer and finally turns golden yellow to red in fall. Leaf …
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