Home and Garden
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Bring the pizazz to your patioMay 26, 2016 11:00 pm - When just our immediate family is here, we are 20 or more. Everything and everyone is crowded and confined to our concrete patio slab. There is no lighting, no atmospher...
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Butterflies & Blooms opens at Chicago Botanic GardenMay 26, 2016 1:00 am - Butterflies & Blooms, an exhibit immersing visitors in an enclosed outdoor garden filled with plants and hundreds of live butterflies and moths, opens Saturday, May 28, ...
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Recent Garden Club sale a big successMay 23, 2016 5:00 am - On behalf of the Rolling Meadows Garden Club I would like to thank the community members who came to shop on what was truly a very cold day Saturday, May 14th. The club ...
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Dwarf fothergilla deserves a spot in your landscapeMay 22, 2016 7:09 am - When choosing a shrub for foundation plantings, shrub borders or perennial gardens, consider dwarf fothergilla. The genus was named for John Fothergill, a Quaker physici...
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Wallpaper has been around as long as history itselfMay 22, 2016 7:01 am - Wallpaper is one of those touchy subjects in interior design - either you love it or hate it. We can all recall a dated or hideous installation that has made us fear it ...
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World-inspired home accents easily found onlineMay 22, 2016 4:00 am - It doesn't take very much to add an artistic touch to a tiny home. Two or three accent items will go a long way toward establishing any creative look. And, when you tire...
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Garlic mustard first introduced for medicinal purposesMay 22, 2016 2:01 am - Q. While doing some weeding and spring clean up around my property, I dug something that smelled like garlic. What is it, and can I eat it? A. Not having seen the plant ...
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Trends in outdoor furniture bring big style to tiny terracesMay 21, 2016 7:22 am - Shelter magazines this time of year are fond of featuring expansive outdoor spaces with sprawling gardens and entertaining areas. But for many people, especially city dw...
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Fashionable fixtures are in styleMay 21, 2016 7:13 am - Lighting does much more than provide illumination. It literally defines a space. The type of lighting chosen and the way it is placed within a room work with the wall co...
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Plan to rotate your crops to prevent diseaseMay 21, 2016 7:11 am - Rotate the crops in your vegetable garden to help control pest problems. This is the easiest way to practice organic, integrated pest management gardening. Many insects ...