Articles filed under Gardening
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Enjoy a firefly show? Tend your yard carefullyJun 12, 2009 11:00 pm - If you're partial to fireflies, these tips will help keep them in your yard: • Fireflies are beetles (not flies), so avoid using anti-beetle products in your garden (eve...
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Alliums - Onions can be ornamentals as well as vegetablesJun 12, 2009 11:00 pm - Not all onions need to be relegated to the vegetable garden. Simple to grow in any sunny, well-drained spot, ornamental Alliums sport attractive, globe-shaped flowers an...
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Lombard housewalk to feature early home of famous orphan's creatorJun 12, 2009 11:00 pm - Harold Gray and his comic strip creation, Little Orphan Annie, are among Lombard's most famous historic residents. Brian and Eileen Anderson started collecting Gray memo...
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Suburban garden walks offer chance to get inspiredJun 05, 2009 11:00 pm - From an estate that's part of Barrington Hills' legendary Hill 'N Dale Farm to a garden that a landscape architect built around her historic Batavia home and the atypica...
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Plenty of plants will perform in dry shadeJun 05, 2009 11:00 pm - I am fortunate enough to have enough property to have gardens in both sun and shade. Many years ago, I spent more time in my sunny gardens tanning my back while planting...
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Garden calendarJun 05, 2009 11:00 pm - • The Wheeling Garden Club meets at 7 p.m. Wednesday, June 10, at the Pavilion Senior Center, 199 N. First St., Wheeling. Call (847) 537-8642 for more information. • The...
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Goodbye spring, hello summer in the gardenJun 05, 2009 11:00 pm - June in the garden is both the end of spring and beginning of summer. It's a month when faltering cool-season annuals are exchanged for heat-loving replacements. When th...
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Local architects have central role in annual historical society house walkJun 05, 2009 11:00 pm - It takes a special gift to walk into a house and imagine its possibilities. Most people see a house for what it is. However, only those with that special vision see a ho...
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Yours might grow better than mineJun 05, 2009 11:00 pm - Testing plants is always a challenge. Plants that don't perform in my garden might do well with your green thumb. For example, last year I grew Blazin' Lime iresine in w...
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Upcoming garden walks throughout the suburbsJun 05, 2009 11:00 pm - Here are more garden walks blooming throughout the suburbs this summer. June 12-13 The Geneva Experience features five gardens open from 11 a.m. to 4 p.m. June 12 a...