… This low-growing, mounded annual is covered in cobalt blue, white-and-yellow trumpet shaped flowers from summer into early fall. …
Type: Garden Guide Plant
… Kalimeris incisa , Japanese cut-leaf aster is a heat, humidity and drought tolerant perennial that produces blue flowers from August through …
Type: Garden Guide Plant
… late winter. Place this kalanchoe in a brightly lit area and avoid over watering. This plant is tolerant of the drier humidity found in many homes during the winter months. …
Type: Garden Guide Plant
… and dryish soils. The flowers are great for use as fresh-cut or dried flowers, and the nectar is a favorite of bees and butterflies. …
Type: Garden Guide Plant
… This is an upright, vase shaped tree with green leaves throughout the growing season followed by …
Type: Garden Guide Plant
… conservation scientist at the Chicago Botanic Garden, says, "The goal of sustainable gardening is to create a self-reliant growth system—a garden that can last indefinitely without inordinate … of the victory gardens of World Wars I and II were sustainable. These gardens, which helped to feed the troops so that money could be spent to support the war effort, produced nearly 40 …
Type: Plant Info
… straight off the vine. Check out this new spot, open weekends only—it's the perfect place to grab a healthy bite and house-prepared fresh juices. Dining Hours Fruit & Vegetable Garden … straight off the vine. Check out this new spot, open weekends only—it's the perfect place to grab a healthy bite and house-prepared fresh juices. Dining Hours Fruit & Vegetable Garden …
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… or on the lawn. Unlike many woodland birds, the northern flicker produces a sound that seems to come from the jungle. Its loud, laughing, rapid “kick-kick-kick-kick-kick” song echoes through … flies, you can see a golden yellow color in its under wings, indicating that the bird belongs to the yellow-shafted race. Flickers with red beneath their wings belong to the red-shafted race … courtship rituals. They dance, bow, sway, and sing facing their intended mate. Once a pair is established, nest-building begins. Flickers carve a cavity in a dead or dying tree and then …
Type: Birding
… New! The “moon illusion” makes the moon look larger at the horizon than when it is higher in the sky. Why does this happen and why are our eyes so easily fooled? You will learn …
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… a couple of years. It flowers in late summer with small globes of fragrant lilac florets and is known for its twisting blue-green leaves that are also fragrant. It prefers average, …
Type: Garden Guide Plant
