… Description: This plain-looking, long-winded songster is most often found in large cottonwoods where it builds its nests. …
Type: Birding
… Description: When this rare northern bird visits, it is usually in fruiting trees, and it often accompanies cedar waxwings. …
Type: Birding
… Description: This year-round Garden resident is most often found in the McDonald Woods or Barbara Brown Nature Reserve. …
Type: Birding
… This round evergreen shrub needs full sun and moderate moisture conditions. It is a specimen. Dwarf Korean Spruce라고도 불립니다. 소나무과입니다. …
Type: Garden Guide Plant
… The shining or hedge cotoneaster is a northern Asia native notable for its lustrous foliage. It can tolerate a wide range of soils … pinkish white blooms that appear in mid-spring and attract bees. The foliage turns yellow to red in the fall. Berries ripen to black in the fall as well and remain on the shrub for most of winter. Members of the genus …
Type: Garden Guide Plant
… stems amid dark green, sword-shaped leaves held in a fan shape. This perennial plant grows up to 5 feet tall in large clumps and blooms abundantly during the summer (in the southern hemisphere—winter in Chicago). Native to South Africa, it grows naturally along the eastern coastal areas of the southern and eastern … The name Dietes means "having two relatives," and grandiflora means "large flower." This plant is occasionally called the fairy iris because the fragile white petals not only look like fairy …
Type: Garden Guide Plant
… develop spots, turn brown, and drop off the tree by midsummer. What can we do? A. Apple scab is a fungal disease that attacks non-resistant crabapple and apple trees. The infection first … the fungus. Some gardeners replace their disease-prone crabapples with resistant varieties to avoid annually spraying their crabapples with fungicide. Non-resistant crabapples must be sprayed as soon as their leaves begin to unfurl. Repeat applications are necessary every 10 to 12 days until midsummer. …
Type: Plant Info
… by the use of flowers in preparing certain food dishes. Are there some basic guidelines to follow when choosing the flowers? A. Edible petals are creative additions to desserts, teas, salads and fruit dishes, as well as charming decorations for most vegetable … lavender, pansies, violets, apple or crab apple blossoms, geraniums ( Pelargonium , that is), calendulas, tulips, tuberous begonias, honeysuckle, nasturtiums, lilacs, dianthus and …
Type: Plant Info
… and black pepper. Serve on toasted bread slices. Tips Let the mixture sit for 30 minutes to an hour to let the flavors blend together. Be creative! Add chopped onion, crushed red pepper flakes for … or other thinly sliced greens like Swiss chard or arugula! Recipe adapted from allrecipes.com … Garden Chef Recipes Bruschetta Prep time: 15 minutes Makes: 4 servings Salad 4 roma …
Type: Page
… boundary, this garden features a central dancing fountain with two intimate secret gardens off to each side. A central promenade invites strolling and close-up views of the cutting-edge plant … Trees, shrubs, and perennials are also part of the garden, providing an attractive backdrop to the changing display of showy annuals, and extending the beauty of the garden through winter. … boundary, this garden features a central dancing fountain with two intimate secret gardens off to each side. A central promenade invites strolling and close-up views of the cutting-edge plant …
Type: Page
