… Crown flower, also known as giant milkweed, is a beautiful shrubby perennial or shrub of southeast Asia, Malaysia, India and parts of Africa. Its kinship to milkweeds can be seen in the softly fuzzy, opposite, oblong leaves with tapering bases and in the lavender to white flower clusters with a complex structure. Each floret has five stiff …
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… Queen Victoria Agave is a variable succulent with ball rosettes of straight or incurved, triangular-oblong, … green leaves 6 to 12 inches long with thick rounded tips, each with a brown terminal spike. The leaf margins are entire but may have small white spines. In summer, it bears erect or curved … tinged purple. It is found in California and northern and western Mexico Archived Copy: This content was captured before February 2022, and is no longer being updated. …
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… Blue Dragon spruce is an upright pyramidal conifer. It is initially slow-growing, but once established, it grows vigorously reaching 65 feet tall by 25 feet wide at maturity. One of the most colorful and stately of all conifers, it produces large (10-inch-long), eye-catching, … as a specimen plant or group several together to create a screen or hedge. Archived Copy: This content was captured before February 2022, and is no longer being updated. …
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… with its purple ray florets, produce an outstanding fall display in Chicago-area gardens. This cultivar was selected from a seedling of the original 'Milka' cultivar in the Netherlands and registered in 1999. It was in the 1990s that … into reliable flowering potted plants to be sold as an alternative to chrysanthemums. This butterfly attractant prefers to grow in sunny positions in well-drained, moderately moist …
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… The bearded orchid Photo by Lois Cinert A fantastically hairy-looking lip not only gives this flower its common name (the bearded orchid), but also makes it understandably popular among collectors and photographers. …
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… The Reunion Jazz Orchestra has performed at Navy Pier Winter Wonderfest, Addison Days, Niles … Cantigny Park Labor Day Festival, Mount Prospect Summer Veterans Bandshell Concerts, Art in the Barn, Good Shepherd Hospital, Collegiate Jazz Festival, Oak Street Beachstro, Del Webb Sun … the unique background of having attended Notre Dame College Prep in Niles, Illinois. Out of this creative environment have come many famous and award-winning musicians, such as, Jimmy …
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… are tan, purplish, dark brown, or black and merge into dead areas that sometimes follow the leaf veins. Leaves, which may become curled and distorted, often drop prematurely to the ground. On sycamores, the disease often infects branches, causing girdling cankers and dieback. Timing & Life Cycle Anthracnose is most prevalent in cool, wet spring weather. Fungal spores overwinter on cankers on infected …
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… New! In this two-day workshop, you will learn how to create compelling architectural images with an … followed by putting those tips into practice with hands-on instruction photographing the architecture around the Garden. There will be a share/critique of your images created during this time plus post-processing instruction and time to work on your own images in class. The …
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… Dive deeper into the world of scents in this workshop, where you will learn perfume structures, plant origins, and … .25-ounce vials of custom natural perfume to take home. No preliminary perfuming experience is necessary. Class size is limited to eight. Jessica Hannah, natural perfumer and …
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… ‘Darwin’s Blue’ is a clump-forming perennial that can reach a height of 16” with a 12” spread. It blooms in summer with dense terminal spikes of purple-blue flowers held above the dark green foliage. It prefers moderately fertile, constantly moist (not wet) soils in full … bloom. After bloom, it may be cut back to provide a tidy ground cover. Archived Copy: This content was captured before February 2022, and is no longer being updated. …
Type: Garden Guide Plant
