… New! Combine two of the best things, chocolate and bread, into one delicious treat. Level up your breadmaking, chocolate, and baking skills all at once. Babka is a timeless classic, perfect for sharing at your next potluck or enjoying throughout your week, …
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… Bring your dancing shoes and best air guitar moves. It's time to get rockin’ with Leonardo. He is a Parents' Choice Award-winning family musician from Chicago, who strums nationwide on his …
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… White') had steamer trunks, they would be covered with stickers from exotic locales. No one is quite sure who first took seeds of a creamy, white-flowered variant of the southeastern Texas annual sunflower to Europe, or how it made its way to Italy—where it thrived. What we do know is that Italian immigrants brought the seeds back …
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… Q. My small aquatic garden is beautiful, but there is too much algae on the water surface. How do I get rid of it? A. A small amount of algae in … thus depriving algae of their food source. Any chemical algicide (as long as it is harmless to fish) can do a temporary job of keeping algae at bay, but it should not be viewed as a …
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… Wintergreen Korean boxwood is more tolerant of sunlight and alkaline soils than the common bxwood. In the spring, very small … can go unnoticed, but they are very fragrant. Because of their shallow root systems, they do best with a thin (1- to 2-inch) layer of mulch. This cultivar is one of the most cold hardy. It also retains its dark …
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… Bronze Wave Alumroot is a great plant for fall flowering and shady areas. A large Heuchera villosa selection with white to tan flowers and bronze to dark green foliage. The foliage is strong, shiny, maple leaf like, … appear in late summer, increase the height and had create a hallo effect of tiny bell flowers. Best planted in shady areas, sunny hot locations cause leaf scorch and damage. It makes a great …
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… Opening Night™ ( Rosa 'Jacolber') is a tall-growing hybrid tea rose—to 4 feet—featuring clear, fire-engine red, 5-inch blooms with … and is perfect for cutting and bringing indoors. The parents of this cultivar are two of the best red hybrid tea roses, 'Olympiad' and 'Ingrid Bergman'. Site this heat-tolerant cultivar …
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… The state flower of South Dakota, eastern pasque flower is one of the earliest blooming wildflowers in the Midwest; its hairy fernlike flower stems often … has completely formed. The plant eventually reaches 8 – 12 inches and the erect flowers, one to each plant, are violet blue, yellow, or white. The name Pasque is derived from the Old French … for Easter and patens means spreading. Plant in well-drained soil in full sun to part shade – best suited to rock gardens or prairies. …
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… of large blooms featuring single, crinkled white flowers surrounding a mass of golden stamens is the key feature of this cultivar. The stems are strong and do not need to be staked. This 1928 hybrid has stood the test of time due to a unique tolerance of warmer … in full sun to partial shade and moderate moisture conditions. It has a faint fragrance, at best. …
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… over and cold weather has settled in. It’s that time of year when a gardener’s thoughts turn to spring, but planting season is months away. What can you do? Grow some spring-blooming bulbs … Garden come April. But right now, for a little winter cheer in your home or office, you can buy pots of tulips, daffodils, hyacinths, and other bulbs at garden centers, stores, and online. … spring. “The Garden’s three new walk-in coolers allow me to play with forced tulips in a way we haven’t done before. We can have varieties of tulips that bloom early, mid-, and …
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