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09/14/2025

🌱🍑💛 Giving blended shades of vibes, ( ) ' ' (Dr. Stanley Johnston/Michigan State University, 1940) STILL. ISN'T. QUITE. RIPE. It has seemed like minutes for a month, but here, unlike shipped-in from who knows where, no Peach is served before it's time.😋 - .

09/08/2025

🌱🤍NIGHT MOVES. ( , ) doing its thing. Softball sized flowers with intoxicating fragrance open at dusk, & appear in flushes throughout Summer and into Fall. The work to bring this massive (8 feet in the pot) outside every Spring and inside every Fall is worth it. Though on a trellis, it's top heavy in a storm - so I have it bungeed to a Dogwood tree outside the 3-Season Room. These plants are naturally native from Mexico to Nicaragua, and grow above ground dangling in massive colonies from their host trees - yet are well adapted for cultivation in soil.
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08/18/2025

🌱TURNING THE CORNER. As Midsummer wanes, herds of fragrant ( , , ) emerge, signaling wonder and the quiet truth: in cold-winter climates, the growing season is ever-closer to its inevitable end. Spring foliage emerges with the daffodils - and reminds us once again that they're there, before it disappears - only to leave us surprised once again when they bloom without it!😎 - .

08/17/2025

🌱💛A color coordinated with a tiny ( ) on a - , . Please jump in with ID of genus or species on the little one, as there are so many similar.🙏

08/03/2025

🌱Somebody's decided to show off! 🥳 'Bristol's Tropical Sunrise' - that sunrise with a bottle of 🍷wine involved 😃 - is on a mission to outperform its neighbors, ramping up with additional buds themselves. These amped up, turbocharged & oversized African Violet relatives are a favorite group of - ( ), of course. This bloom machine was hybridized & introduced by Dr. Ralph (Rob) Robinson of The Violet Barn.

The Gesneriad Society, Inc.

08/02/2025

🌱🦋 A female (faint white spot in the red band of each forewing) ( ) enjoys a stretch on the inversion table 😃 before righting herself to display her famous colors. -

08/01/2025

🍍🍍🍍 The Illinois Pineapple Growers Association 😅 can always count on Jewel-Osco & Albertsons Food Stores to champion their products.🍍🍍🍍 A Summer drive through Illinois wouldn't be the same without the sight of ACRES AND ACRES of Pineapples, stretching far into the horizon.🤣

07/27/2025

🌱🐝BEE to the BALM. Favorite Chicagoland native ( aka - but not the same as true Bergamot in Earl Gray tea - a species of Citrus) and a ( sp.) - we have several species locally, can be tricky to identify which without a more complete view. Most common & variable of the handful of Monarda species in Illinois - also the most widespread in North America. Here in the Pocket Prairie at Wilder Park and Conservatory, Elmhurst - DuPage County.
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07/23/2025

🌱🌹A treat here for as Climbing Rosa ( ) ' ' (David Austin Roses, 2000) does not have an off button, even going into a new round of extreme heat. Another of the own-root (from the milder climate UK 🇬🇧 no less) that takes both 🔥heat waves and the occasional 🥶Polar Vortex.
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07/20/2025

🌱💛 Sweetly, for - favorite Chicagoland native ( ) & friends. In the at Wilder Park and Conservatory, Elmhurst, Illinois.😎
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07/17/2025

🌱🫛DON'T LOOK AWAY - or they can get ahead of you! Pisum sativum ( ) ' ' (Dr. Calvin Lamborn, 1998) is edible at all stages, & I especially like them slightly overgrown - a bit more crunch - too far along & sweetness declines. This is an improved more disease resistant version of the 1970s classic also introduced by Dr. Lamborn. Sow seed NOW (in climates with an early Autumn) for a Fall crop. If you are in an area with continued hot weather deep into Fall, count backwards 85 -100 days (not 70) from your first Frost - the Fall crop can take longer as day length shortens. 😎
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