… Description: The Canada goose is often present on Garden lakes and lawns. …
Type: Birding
… Description: This hawk is a rare winter sight flying over, or in, trees. …
Type: Birding
… 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
… This course is for individuals seriously considering or already in the process of aquaponic food production on a commercial scale. This three-day course is a comprehensive look at the design and build-out of a system, water quality, …
Type: Item Detail
… This aster is a midwestern native and blooms in late summer-early fall with yellow centered flowers of pale … more flowers. It should be planted in full sun and well-drained soil. Once established, it is both heat and drought tolerant. …
Type: Garden Guide Plant
… This aster is a midwestern native and blooms in late summer-early fall with small yellow centered flowers of … more flowers. It should be planted in full sun and well-drained soil. Once established, it is both heat and drought tolerant. …
Type: Garden Guide Plant
… Seaton's Ruby anemone-flowered mum ( Chrysanthemum 'Seaton's Ruby') is a tried-and-true, consistent award winner at chrysanthemum shows. The flower shape, described … while the central cushion of petal-like flowers are the same shade of red. This cultivar is not hardy outdoors in the Chicago region. Gardeners replant rooted cuttings each spring that …
Type: Garden Guide Plant
… the common garden fuchsias with their large dangling flowers, this New Zealand coastal native is a creeping vine with tiny toothed round leaves, suitable for a hanging basket in a constantly … flower petals are actually absent, with the outer perianth tube providing the color. The fruit is a red berry. …
Type: Garden Guide Plant
… The flowers are huge and downfacing with recurved petals in late summer. The stems stand 4 to 6 feet tall and may have as many as 20 or more blooms per stem. This is an Orienpet hybrid, a cross between an Oriental lily and a trumpet lily, which combines the … with the fragrance and shape of the Oriental hybrids. These hybrids have an increased ability to withstand late spring frosts, as well as hot summer days. Leslie Woodriff topped the …
Type: Garden Guide Plant
