NATIVES
Welcoming in a new year, snow free!
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Happy New Year! and with the absence of winter thus far, who can complain? 🙂 Can you remember a snow ...
Winterscapes in a Wheaton wetland garden
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Add color w/ a massing of this beauty for winter color! Will grow well in your gardens, Dupage, Kane or ...
Native fall blooming Witchhazel (Hammemalis) shrub
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A fun surprise to find a shrub in bloom in November! Fall color is great, and useful in wooded, or ...
Estimating a tree’s age- useful tool!
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Thank you Mr. Bowles for all this great info! Field Notes Telling a Tree’s Age We always knew our favorite ...
Loitering Turkeys
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let them loose and thought they’d head off, but- no luck so far And man, are they messy! Better be ...
Mychorizae (beneficial fungi and other soil organisms)
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Great reading! Thank you Tod at Morton Arboretum, and the authors (UBC) of this wonderful and fascinating look at how ...
A Front Landscape Renovation
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A recent landscape renovation: take a moment to scroll down – click on pix below to see the close up ...
Plant it (or let it come in on it’s own), and they will come…
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Did you know that the common milkweed is the primary food source for the Monarch butterfly? This plant may just ...
What’s in bloom (early July) – Bottlebrush Buckeye (Aesculus parv.)
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In need of a stunning and underutilized beauty? Here it is! This multi-layered species comes from the SE USA regions, ...
CACTI (native prickly pear)
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Not only will this cacti thrive, but will offer bright lemony yellow blooms in summer,followed by edible purple fruits. Grow ...