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  • … Boston Ivy ‘Green Showers’ is a climbing vine that reaches a maximum height of 50 feet. It requires full sun and moderate moisture conditions. Although its blooms are inconspicuous, the subsequent ornamental blue berries attract birds. The plant can be used as a ground cover. Archived Copy: This content was captured before February 2022, and is no longer being updated. …
    Type: Garden Guide Plant
  • … Siberian Burnet ‘Pink Elephant’ is an upright perennial that grows to a maximum height of about 5 feet. It requires full sun to partial shade and moist water conditions. In the summer it produces pink flowers. The plant can be used as a specimen or in a border. Archived Copy: This content was captured before February 2022, and is no longer being updated. …
    Type: Garden Guide Plant
  • … Picea omorika ‘de Ruyter’ is a slow-growing cultivar of Serbian spruce with an irregular growth habit and the interesting characteristic of producing only blue needles on one branch versus green needles … of its classic ‘Christmas tree’ shape and tolerance of a wide variety of soils. Archived Copy: This content was captured before February 2022, and is no longer being updated. …
    Type: Garden Guide Plant
  • … Michael Dixon (b. 2003) is a composer and performer based in Bloomington, Indiana, where he is pursuing an M.M. degree in composition at the Indiana University Jacobs School of Music. He began playing the carillon at the University of …
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  • … <p>In late spring, 'Boskoop Glory' is an 8-foot mass of salmon pink, with flowers lining the length of the branches. Once it recovers from its initial effort,  it'll continue to flower … them good drainage, reasonable moisture, and 4 or more hours of sun a day.</p> Archived Copy: This content was captured before February 2022, and is no longer being updated. …
    Type: Garden Guide Plant
  • … <p>At the beginning of March in Japan, 10,000 people come to the park where <em>Adonis</em> has … a carpet of them...thousands and thousands. It's the first sign of spring. And once bloom is done, the ferny mounds of foliage unfold. <p>Members of the <em>Adonis</em> family can be … areas, hillsides, and loose forest soils they do insist on good drainage,</p> Archived Copy: This content was captured before February 2022, and is no longer being updated. …
    Type: Garden Guide Plant
  • … Description: This Great Plains migrant is a rare sighting in the Dixon Prairie. …
    Type: Birding
  • … Description:  This is an unusual sight on the lakes or flying overhead. …
    Type: Birding
  • … New! Paint and plant in this summer crafting workshop. Learn helpful plant care tips to keep your succulents surviving for years to come while enjoying a meditative painting experience. Customize your planters using …
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  • … Faded Blue Jeans false indigo gets its cultivar name from the multiple tones of soft lavender blue in its blooms. Members of the genus Baptisia are … as wild or false indigo due to their use by early Americans as a blue dye. Although "indigo" is in the common name, the blooms of native species may be blue, yellow or white and the blooms … of the Plant Collections Network of the American Public Gardens Association. Archived Copy: This content was captured before February 2022, and is no longer being updated. …
    Type: Garden Guide Plant