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Home & garden calendar, April 6-12Apr 02, 2025 1:03 am - Pressed flowers, dahlias, dragonflies, plant sales and more.
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Cuttings prepped now will be ready for spring plantingMar 25, 2025 11:20 pm - If you kept a coleus as a houseplant over winter, you can still start cuttings for transplanting to the garden.
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Home & garden calendar, March 30-April 5Mar 25, 2025 9:41 pm - Garden club meetings, plant sales and more.
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Spotlight: Edge of the Wood Theatre opens with Theresa Rebeck’s ‘Bernhardt/Hamlet’Mar 24, 2025 3:22 pm - An actress becomes “Hamlet” in Edge of the Wood’s “Bernhardt/Hamlet,” a woman answers a stranger’s cellphone in MadKap Productions’ “Dead Man’s Cell Phone,” and a grandmother and granddaughter jump into action in Filament Theatre’s “Hannah and Halmoni Save the World.”
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Warm days of spring awaken earnest gardenersMar 18, 2025 8:54 pm - It’s March so it’s time for gardeners to get busy — check for perennials that may have been nudged from the ground during the freeze-thaw cycle, finish up your pruning and get your vegetable seeds started.
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Home & garden calendar, March 23-29Mar 18, 2025 8:14 pm - Garden club meetings, plant sales, grafting and more.
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Spring is popping up all over, in the form of early bulbsMar 11, 2025 7:02 pm - It is starting to feel like spring in the Chicago area. During periods of warm weather, early bulbs might begin sprouting, especially those planted with a southern exposure, close to a house or garage.
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On stage for spring: New, new-to-Chicago plays and musicalsMar 08, 2025 10:43 pm - Suburban and city theater fans looking for a new or a new-to-Chicago show have plenty to choose from this spring. Here are a dozen mostly new shows for spring.
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A guide for creating a bird-friendly gardenMar 05, 2025 3:10 am - It takes more than feeders, birdhouses and a birdbath along with some flowers for a truly bird-friendly garden. Birds need a complete habitat that includes food, shelter, nesting areas and perching spots.
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Unique way to bring those blooms indoorsFeb 25, 2025 10:17 pm - Branch out when looking for blooms to bring indoors — literally. Carefully pruned branches can be brought indoors for “forcing.” A horticulturist explains how.