… Forest bathing, originally developed in Japan as shinrin-yoku, refers to the practice of immersing all your senses in the healing forest to reduce stress hormones and increase immune function. Connect with forest … person may attend without registering. Dress for the weather, as class will still be held in light to moderate rain. Sally Peterson, certified nature and forest therapy guide Meet at the …
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… on a broadly upright habit provide a 'soft' texture to the landscape 12 months a year. Hardy in the Chicago area when provided sun to partial shaded conditions in moisure retentive soils. Deer don't find the foliage particularly tasty to eat. …
Type: Garden Guide Plant
… bromeliad that produces showy pineapple shaped flower spikes with bright red bracts. Grow in full sun, periodically refresh the water in the basin and bring indoors before the first frost. …
Type: Garden Guide Plant
… Deep red, almost black, flowers are produced sequentially atop tall scapes to 2' in height starting 6 weeks after the first irrigation of late fall or winter. Place in the brightest possible locations to prevent the flowering stem from lodging (falling over …
Type: Garden Guide Plant
… patterned leaves feature rippling bars of alternating green and light green patterns. Grow in full sun and periodically refresh the water in the urn for best results. Bring indoors before the first frost. …
Type: Garden Guide Plant
… produce old world rose fragrance throughout the growing season on this floribunda rose. Plant in sunny locations that permit good air movement in and around the plant to reduce the factors that enable downy and powdery mildews and black …
Type: Garden Guide Plant
… sized upright clumps of greenish bronze leaves are topped by spikes of tan colored seeds in fall. As the temperatures cool and daylengths shorted the foliage turns tan-bronze and holds that color going into winter. Plant in sunny locations and well drained soils. …
Type: Garden Guide Plant
… Single pink flowers cover this native prairie rose in June followed by red fruit in late fall/winter. If possible, use plants grown from seed of local sources; the native range …
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… Description: This nomadic owl appears erratically and may be seen in conifer plantings or in the McDonald Woods. Long-eared owls are nomadic birds, found abundantly some years and … on prey abundance (small mammals, like mice and voles), they often form fairly large groups in winter roosts where a dozen or more birds can be found together. They are also known to …
Type: Birding
… 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 … up to the surface of the soil. Interplant corms with companion plants that begin growth late in the season to accommodate the luxuriant spring foliage and that provide a backdrop for the …
Type: Garden Guide Plant
