… This perennial grows to a height of 3 feet with full sun to partial shade and moderate moisture conditions. It has white blooms from July through October …
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… This Brazilian cactus can grow up to 3 feet high with full sun and well drained, dry soil. From late spring to August, it produces attractive yellow and orange blooms. …
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… This shrub grows to a height of 4 feet with full sun to partial shade and moderate moisture conditions. It has red blooms in September and October and …
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… African evergreen native needs bright, indirect indoor light with moderate moisture conditions to grow to a height of about 2 feet. In early spring it produces attractive white flowers. …
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… This bulb grows to a height of 2 feet with full sun to partial shade and moderate moisture conditions. It has blue blooms in May and June and belongs …
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… This bulb grows to a height of 2 feet with full sun to partial shade and moderate moisture conditions. It has yellow blooms in May and June and …
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… architect. The Chinese Garden of Perfect Brightness. Tie them together and the result is part of the intriguing back story of the Chicago Botanic Garden—which starts long before the … of the wetlands and, with another landscape architect, Geoffrey Rausch, produced a master plan to transform the land into island gardens and a series of lakes. Unlike some of his peers who … Garden began construction, Rausch recalled, “I have never seen anything quite as bad as that site. Literally, it was burning.” He was referring to the trash, raw sewage, weeds, and abandoned …
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… The Krasberg Rose Garden is naturally romantic. As with fine wines, the descriptive words for roses are rich and … is strong in this big, ruffly, old-fashioned rose. Finally, some roses have romantic stories to tell. The Portland rose ( Rosa ‘Comte de Chambord’) was a gift to the Empress Josephine, who established the greatest rose garden of its time at Malmaison. The …
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… awe walk , when I’m looking for unexpected beauty, those bits of color bring my attention to the bigger world around me. My work with Budburst , the Chicago Botanic Garden’s community … science project, has made me appreciate these moments even more. Budburst encourages everyone to observe and record how plants change with the seasons. The spots of green usually come from … exposed branch structure of a deciduous tree, naked of its leaves. The ingenuity of leaf loss is protection, preventing branches from bearing too much weight and breaking when it snows. All I …
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… ever before, and discover vital information. “One of the problems we have with soil science is that you can’t see into it so you really depend on a lot of techniques and methods to work out what’s happening,” explained Dr. Egerton-Warburton, associate conservation scientist … ecology. She has used high-throughput sequencing (also termed Next Generation Sequencing) to identify more than 120 species of mycorrhizal fungi in a single plant community. In …
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