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  • … Learn to create luminous watercolors from the ground up. Observe an instructor demo each week and gain technical skills to achieve greater control and enjoyment with this medium. Color mixing, brush technique, … two days before your class starts. Registered students will receive login instructions one day in advance.  Judith Joseph, artist & instructor Online Course …
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  • … Experience the joy of creating your own unique papers created by eco-dyeing with plants and flowers. Explore printmaking methods that use leaves to create a simple print plate and direct mono-prints. Finally, apply both printing methods to freshly made paper. You will leave with a stack of papers that can be used in mixed media works, papercrafts, and other projects. Most printing supplies are included. All …
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  • … Learn to create luminous watercolors from the ground up. Observe an instructor demo each week and gain technical skills to achieve greater control and enjoyment with this medium. Color mixing, brush technique, … two days before your class starts. Registered students will receive login instructions one day in advance.  Judith Joseph, artist & instructor Online Course …
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  • The Molly Fordham rhododendron is a small (5’) round shrub that blooms in early April with clusters of white flowers. In deeper shade or in a colder spring, the flowers have a pinkish hue. Rhododendrons in the 'P.J.M.' group are heavy flowerers because …
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  • … tulip features pink outer petals and creamy white inner petals on sturdy stems towards the end of May in the Chicago region. It's elegant in landscapes, as well as a cut flower. Plant this tulip in
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  • … Dark pinkish green leaves on a sprawling plant provide color and contrast in the garden during the summer and the tuber can be dug and eaten at season's end (it is a sweet potato). Plant in
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  • … Small bright yellow flowers in large umbels supplement the ornamental attributes of the smoky purple and green finely dissected foliage. All parts of the plant smell like licorice …
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  • … Pure white single flower in masses adorn the top of the mounded foliage on this nonhardy succulent that blooms from fall through late winter. Place …
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  • … ) 'Sonata Pink Blush', a freely branching, somewhat dwarf variety, matures at 2 feet in height and 14 inches in width. A butterfly attractant, it is covered with flowers that have pink petals surrounding the darker colored "eye." Seeds germinate readily when sown in a sunny location, and … from late spring through frost. This water-wise selection only needs sufficient water to establish the root system, with supplemental water thereafter during extreme droughts.  Cosmos …
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  • … Jim Fackenthal has worked many years at the University of Chicago as a cancer researcher and served as Associate University Carillonneur. … Fackenthal began carillon studies with David Caldwell at the University of Rochester in 1984, and two years later became a Carillonneur Member of the Guild of Carillonneurs in North … on the GCNA Examination Committee and is the former co-editor of the GCNA publication Carillon News .   …
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