… There are many cultigens of top onion, which are thought to be hybrids of Allium cepa , bulb onion, and Allium fistulosum , bunching onion, or their wild ancestors, A. vavilovii and altaicum . According to Dr. Peter Hanelt, editor of Mansfeld's Encyclopedia of Agricultural and Horticultural Crops , it is unlikely to have occurred in nature, because the ranges of the parents do not overlap. The color of bulbs …
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… 'Clara Curtis' is a very late flowering cultivar of Korean mum with large, light pink to lavender "daisies" covering the foliage. An heirloom cultivar originally from Russia, this … leaf miner insects when grown near a night light that is consistently left on. (This applies to other plants as well.) Mail order firms now ship biological controls to homeowners as well as commercial greenhouses. The parasitic wasps are very tiny, and eat only …
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… College First High Schools Each summer, Chicago Public School students travel to the Garden by school bus from designated stops to participate in the Science First and College First programs. Over 500 students participated in … + 41.734564,-87.557508:Chicago Discovery Academy+ 41.688084,-87.717987:Chicago High School for Agricultural Sciences DeAries Perrin 2006 Lauren Pletsch 2005 Theresa Aleman 2006 Yesenia …
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… tomatoes, peppers, and cucumbers. Enjoy a fun tasting session that will leave you inspired to create your own garden-to-glass drinks. Take home recipes, step-by-step instructions, and a plant to grow your own cocktail ingredients at home. Alcohol will be served in this class; participants …
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… magnet with its honey-scented blooms. It likes full sun and good soil with regular watering to ensure it doesn’t wilt. Removing the spent spikes will keep new flowers coming. It grows to a height of over three feet, but if you cut it back to one foot when the blooming slows, it will grow quickly into a bigger bush with many more …
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… BUZZ™ Ivory Butterfly Bush This upright, semi-bushy shrub only grows to a size of three to five feet, but it produces elegant spikes of white plumes to accent its medium green-greyish foliage. It thrives with full sun and moist, well-drained …
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… are held well above the dark green, glossy, heart-shaped leaves. Anthuriums can tolerate light-to-moderate shaded environments, as long as the relative humidity and temperatures remain high. In many drier home environments, it is prone to infections of spider mites in winter. The treatment is relatively straightforward—periodically take it to the bathroom and give it a warm shower. …
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… with tiny white stamens. Plant 'Sweet Black Cherry' in full sun, average soils, and close to a path or window to enjoy the fragrance. Sweet Williams are old-fashioned favorite perennials which are often used as annuals, especially varieties hybridized with other species. This cultivar was bred to produce flowers the first season. …
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… pinks has small, linear, grayish-green leaves. It forms nice dense mounds and grows only to a foot or so. It is wonderful in the foreground of a perennial border or rock garden. One-inch … borne either as singles or doubles. If you pinch back after flowering, the plant will continue to bloom. This is an easy plant to grow, and no sunny garden should be without it. Lovely pink flowers, each petal with scalloped …
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… This is a dwarf iris standing only 6 inches high and is found in floodplains from Maryland to Oklahoma. It thrives in shade, spreads rapidly, and is resistant to deer and rabbits. The name iris was taken from the Greek goddess of the rainbow to symbolize the many colors of this flower. The classic Fleur de Lys, which has been a symbol of …
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