… New! Beat the heat with refreshing cocktails featuring fresh summer herbs and vibrant veggies like … tomatoes, peppers, and cucumbers. Enjoy a fun tasting session that will leave you inspired to create your own garden-to-glass drinks. Take home recipes, step-by-step instructions, and a plant to grow your own cocktail ingredients at home. Alcohol will be served in this class; participants must be 21 years of age or older. Sonja Kassebaum, co-founder and …
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… easily with food your guests help assemble. This hands-on cooking class will provide you with the basics to throw a fun party. Make an IPA onion dip, find out how to create a build your own flatbread pizza bar, and make chocolate stout truffles. Alcohol will be served in this class; participants must be 21 years of age or older. Mary Kay Gill, professional …
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… It serves as a screen in our gardens. Native to the Balkans, this pine reaches heights of 30' to 50'. Relatively compact and somewhat slow-growing, it retains its lower branches better than …
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… New! Strawberries are sophisticated. In this hands-on class, local food blogger and cookbook author Emily Paster will teach you how to make strawberry balsamic jam, a surprisingly delicious take on this classic preserve. The class will also cover the how-tos of water-bath canning—a safe and easy method of home food …
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… birds. This salvia is low maintenance, requires little water (once established) and thrives in the summer heat. It will add a dramatic element to any garden bed or container design. …
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… 'Niagara Falls' is a dense cultivar of the classic weeping eastern white pine. Typically it has long, soft blue-green needles in clumps of five, but with more lateral buds and a slower growth habit. Like other cultivars, its ideal conditions are acidic soils, bright light to full sun, and well-drained, consistently moist soils. …
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… Thin elongated green leaves with wavy margins will take on a brownish stripe in full sun. The relatively large white flowers near the center of the plant are produced during the rainy season in Brazil (winter in Chicago). Grow …
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… Desert rose or impala lily, is neither a rose or a lily but a small succulent perennial in the dogbane family found growing in Africa, south of the Sahara, and in the Arabian Peninsula. It has a shrubby habit, with many knobby branches …
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… is a patented hybrid tea rose released by Bear Creek Gardens, Inc. of Medford, Oregon, in 1999. It has disease-resistant foliage, and long stems topped with a single, large flower. This beautiful shrub grows up to 5 feet high with full sun to partial shade and moderate moisture conditions. From May through … it produces lightly fragrant salmon-pink and white blooms. It is a hybrid cross between the orange New Year™ and pink-and-white Anne Morrow Lindbergh™. …
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… deep watering is provided. It prefers full sun and partial shade; too much shade will result in a loose, thin look. During heavy snows, use a broom to brush off excess snow to prevent the branches from bending too far. …
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