… Photographs can take our breath away. A beautiful image can transport us to another time. It can flood us with long-forgotten memories. It can go far beyond being a record of a thing, and can instead surround us with an essence, and feelings. Learn how to make pictures that soar past postcards, and capture what you are feeling, what you are seeing, … The first three sessions will end with a creative photographic challenge, and you are invited to participate. The last session will showcase the results of the challenge with a full group …
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… Long-eared owls are nomadic birds, found abundantly some years and difficult or impossible to find others. Choosing their locations based on prey abundance (small mammals, like mice and … groups in winter roosts where a dozen or more birds can be found together. They are also known to perform a broken-wing act in order to draw predators away from the nest sites, not unlike the behavior many people associate with …
Type: Birding
… with a star shaped greenish white veined base. The outside of the flowers are violet purple to pale purple in color. Plant in full sun and moist but well drained soils. Divide when the clumps of corms have become so congested they start to push up to the surface of the soil. Interplant corms with companion plants that begin growth late in the …
Type: Garden Guide Plant
… This autumn crocus has up to 20 purple-pink flowers per corm in September. This native of Asia Minor might be a hybrid of … but well drained soils. Divide when the clumps of corms have become so congested they start to push up to the surface of the soil. Interplant corms with companion plants that begin growth late in the …
Type: Garden Guide Plant
… The cultivar 'Firebird' grows 30 to 36 inches tall and 18 inches wide on sturdy stems and features downward sloping bright scarlet … red rays and large, mounded, dark orange-brown cones. Coneflowers bloom from late spring to late summer and the spent blooms make an attractive addition to the winter landscape as well as an excellent source of food for birds. Once classified merely …
Type: Garden Guide Plant
… can be grown as a multistemmed shrub or a rounded tree since it attains heights of 12' to 15' or can even reach 20' to 30' over a 30-year period. The small, finely toothed oval leaves are similar to the leaves of cherry trees, which accounts for its scientific name. The flowers are white with …
Type: Garden Guide Plant
… White to pink nodding flowers appear in mid to late summer on this onion native to much of eastern North America. Full sun and well-drained soils are the preferred growing …
Type: Garden Guide Plant
… remarkable fragrance earned it the name odorata. Each Vriesea blooms only once, then dies down to make room for its young offshoots, called pups. It's native to Brazil's rocky southern mountains, so it needs a lot of sun and heat. If you want to grow it in our climate, you need to bring it indoors before the first frost. …
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… In addition to the large, architectural foliage typical of so many Rodgersias 'Cherry Blush' adds striking color. The leaves start out bronze in spring, then mature to green bordered in bronzed burgundy. Those dark leaves form an effective setting for the airy … that appear in late spring. In the shade garden, Rodgersias give you a bold counterpoint to the delicate airy foliage common to so many shade plants in our area. The leaves of certain …
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… In Latin "praecox" means very early, and in fact, Weigela praecox begins to bloom in mid-April, two weeks before other Weigela . The fragrant clusters of trumpet-shaped flowers are a bright, cheerful pink, and the show generally continues for 4 to 6 weeks. Some people like it next to a doorway, so they can enjoy the fragrance. Others use it as a specimen or hedge. Bees, …
Type: Garden Guide Plant
