… reduced by West Nile virus, these easily identified birds are once again common throughout the year. …
Type: Birding
… New! Slow cookers provide multiple benefits to home chefs. In this cooking class, learn time-saving techniques to enjoy delicious simmered-in flavors. See how … economical slow cooking can be as less-expensive cuts of meat turn tender, gently poaching in the low heat. Featured slow cooker recipes include warm wheatberry salad with arugula and dried …
Type: Item Detail
… non-diving duck, it resembles a dark female mallard, and may be seen on Garden lakes or in the Skokie River. …
Type: Birding
… Read Janisse Ray’s The Seed Underground: A Growing Revolution to Save Food , and come to a free discussion. …
Type: Item Detail
… The perennial requires full sun to partial shade and moderate soil moisture. Blooms in late …
Type: Garden Guide Plant
… A large, maroon wading bird, the white-faced ibis has a long, curved bill. Its wings have a metallic green and bronze sheen, …
Type: Birding
… Winner of the RHS Award of Garden Merit in 2012. Considered a tender perennial, overwinter in a cool or …
Type: Garden Guide Plant
… & Blooms, I noticed a crepuscular , cosmopolitan imago puddling in order to prepare for an upcoming lek . What did I just say? The vocabulary surrounding Lepidoptera can be very … decode the sentence above. The very cosmopolitan painted lady (Vanesa cardui) Cosmopolitan— In this case, a cosmopolitan is not a mixed drink or a well-traveled individual—although this term is related to being in many …
Type: Blog
… From the rainforests of Brazil While smaller than their Miltoniopsis cousins, these are eye-catching …
Type: Plant Info
… It’s time for a visit to the Dixon Prairie to savor late spring flowers and the pollinators visiting these plants. A standout plant, looking almost like a small shrub, is white wild indigo (Baptisia alba). This is the white-flowered cousin to blue wild indigo (Baptisia australis) ; this plant, not …
Type: Blog
