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How to Hybridize your own personal Daylily Beth ??? walks you through how to identify the stamen, the pistil, and pollen. She shows you how to spread pollen, and how to collect seed pods. Learn how to grow a plant from seeds to blooming daylily at home. ?? Hybridizing Daylillies ?????
Come on a walk with us (Virtually, of course!) while we explore the Des Plaines River Trail and Van Patten Woods in early fall. You’ll see natives flowers, grasses and the beauty that can be found all around us. https://www.lcfpd.org/van-patten-woods/ 15838 West Route 173, Wadsworth, IL 60083 Hours: 6:30 am–sunset, daily. When conditions allow, open weekdays 6:30 […]
Come and watch one of our members as they harvest some of the late summer bounty that is found in their garden. Each plant is described as she picks the vegetables. Watch Now!
September 2020 Pandemic. That’s the major P word in the presidents’ points. But there are others: postpone, people, possibility, positive… that’s just a few that come to mind. Yes, we are living in unprecedented times calling for unprecedented actions and we in our garden club must do what is necessary in our lives right now. […]
Making the best of our situation, we bloom where we are planted. What’s this? Something new? An IDGC Newsletter? Well, yes and no. In this Age of Pandemic, I suspect we’re all beginning to see “new” as normal. So, the arrival of a newsletter at the time of our September Kickoff is both new and strangely normal. No kick-off; a newsletter in its place. As you can […]