Home and Garden
-
Newest designs in light fixtures feature a clean, yet colorful lookSep 18, 2009 11:00 pm - Clean, sleek, simple designs. Forget the brushed nickel finishes and the ornate renderings of the past few years. If you are going to buy a lamp or other light fixture, ...
-
Morton Arboretum schedules Fall bulb saleSep 18, 2009 11:00 pm - Seminars, sales •Morton Arboretum Fall Bulb Sale, 9 a.m. to 4 p.m. Sunday, Sept. 20. More than 150 varieties of spring-blooming bulbs, including 59 tulip varieties....
-
Brilliant orange, golden yellow join fiery reds in autumn color paletteSep 18, 2009 11:00 pm - The days are getting shorter. There are school supplies everywhere in the house. Football games are on TV. Fall is here, and it's time to think about setting your garden...
-
Country folk art festival this weekend at Kane County fairgroundsSep 18, 2009 11:00 pm - A reproduction antique doll should be authentic down to her corset. That's the way Robin Thompson makes them. Honest. "I'm a research junkie," said the Mount Prospect ar...
-
Couple enjoys pond from deck and kitchenSep 18, 2009 11:00 pm - Look what can happen when a woman mentions she would like a pond in her back yard. Ellen Trauten did that, and her husband, George, not only created a large pond with a ...
-
Palatine man takes backyard gardening to a new levelSep 11, 2009 11:00 pm - Tom Anderson of Palatine has taken backyard gardening to a whole new level. With his nearly 300 feet of land filled with vegetable plots and fruit trees, the term, gentl...
-
Why are my beans purple, Daddy? It all starts with the anthocyanins
Sep 11, 2009 11:00 pm - It sure would be hard to explain to any young child why cooking would turn purple beans, such as the variety Royal Burgundy, from purple to green. Which cooking does. Yo...
-
Arlington Heights housewalk features five distinctive architectural stylesSep 11, 2009 11:00 pm - Healing garden open Healing Gardens, a 2-acre woodland and perennial gardens on Stone Hill Farm off Dean Street in St. Charles, will open from 11 a.m. to 4 p.m. tod...
-
Alaskan homeless shelter planning terraced community garden
-
Fall annuals put their colors out in cooler weatherSep 11, 2009 11:00 pm - Cooler temperatures may signal the end of another summer, but they don't have to mean the end of color in your landscape. Unlike summer-loving annuals, fall annuals reli...