Home and Garden
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Hellstrips: Challenge lies beyond the sidewalkJun 24, 2014 5:30 am - Making a yard and a community more beautiful begins at the curb. But that narrow space between sidewalk and street - sometimes called a boulevard, median, hellstrip, par...
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Reinventing the winter-weary hydrangeaJun 23, 2014 6:00 am - In a normal year, the hydrangeas would be thick with leafy growth and holding aloft conspicuous buds to open at month's end either as lacecaps or globes, thus introducin...
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Rare nuthatch breeding in Glenview backyardJun 22, 2014 11:00 pm - Our backyard 3.5-inch, male red-breasted nuthatch is covered in pine resin. For more than a week, feathers on his head and belly have been matted down and glisten in e...
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Six unique gardens featured in Libertyville walkJun 22, 2014 11:00 pm - Town and Country Garden Club of Libertyville presents "Hidden Gems Garden Walk" on Saturday, June 28, to raise funds to support beautification of public areas. The event...
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Backyards get their chance to shineJun 22, 2014 6:00 am - Sometimes life doesn't turn out exactly as you plan it. Reverses and set backs in the economy or in your personal life has you so busy making ends meet that you have no ...
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Prospect Heights family wins garage makeoverJun 22, 2014 6:00 am - Heidi Eglund of Prospect Heights is a self-proclaimed “neat freak.” Her home is always neat and tidy. But until recently, when it came to her family's garage, she threw ...
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Lichen a gray-green growth on barkJun 22, 2014 1:01 am - Q. I have a maple tree that has a gray-green growth on the bark. What is it? A. Chances are the gray-green growth is lichen. A lichen may look like a single organism, bu...
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Ways to make an older home work for todayJun 22, 2014 12:01 am - Remodels present more challenges per square foot than new construction. Is this based on statistics? No way. But I have experienced myriad oddities over the course of ye...
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Italy aims to reintroduce its goods to world marketJun 21, 2014 6:00 am - I just got back from Italy with some great new resources. I was invited by ITA-ICE, the marketing and promotion office of the Italian government, and CNA, the associatio...
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A home move with less stress, bigger upsideJun 21, 2014 6:00 am - After buying one of the professionally decorated models at Lexington Park in Des Plaines for himself, Bill McPartlin, a real estate broker from Park Ridge, is singing th...