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Man's Overgrown Yard Gets Mowed By Village
(WGN-AM)- Michael Mazo enjoyed the insects and other animals that flitted about in the two-foot-tall grass on the back lawn of his Buffalo Grove town house. The Russian immigrant said he also regarded the lush greenery as evidence of the personal freedom...Tags: Kentucky, Foreclosures, Chicago Tribune, Local Government, WGN
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August 24 - 28
Staff reporterMickey Rooney and Jan - Back to School Fashions - Dance for Life Wednesday, August 26 Mickey Rooney and Jan "Let's Put on a Show" Sunday, August 30 Arcada Theatre St. Charles (630) 587-8400 www.oshows.com Thursday, August 27 Back to School Fashions...Tags: Michael Jackson, Millennium Park, Animals, Rogers Park, McCormick Place
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Denise Corkery
Denise Corkery is a senior writer at the Chicago Botanic Garden, where she writes a weekly column for the Chicago Tribune House & Homes section, weekly gardening tips for WBBM-AM radio, and a monthly column in the Garden's e-newsletter. She also edits and...Tags: Chicago Tribune
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Chicago Botanic Garden selects best balloon flower
Special to the Tribune"The plump buds of balloon flower almost beg to be popped," writes Richard Hawke in his report on the Chicago Botanic Garden's five-year evaluation of Platycodon grandiflorus and 19 of its cultivars. Don't pop too many, though, or you'll miss out on the...Tags: Science and Technology, Lifestyle and Leisure, Dining and Drinking, Kentucky, Bars and Clubs
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Small gardens need careful choices
Tribune reporterThe tiny dooryard of a townhouse. The back porch of a six-flat. A balcony on the 12th floor. Or the 20-foot space between deck and garage behind a 19th Century cottage. No question, small gardens have different challenges than a sunny half-acre. "There's...Tags: Vermont, Homes
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Chicago's One Seed choice and plant sales
Let's grow together! This year's One Seed Chicago plant is ... beans. All you need to do to participate is to, well, grow some beans. Any kind. Plant sales Lots and lots of plant sales this year. Don't have space to list them all; I've squeezed in...Tags: Lake County (Indiana), Bars and Clubs, Botany, Science, DuPage County
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A lawn of one's own
SPECIAL TO THE TRIBUNEWhen Heather Blaha and her husband, Josh Cooper, moved into their first home this winter, it came with a yard. This may not sound remarkable; but they had never owned a yard before. And though it was small -- this long rectangular strip behind their...Tags: Medical Procedures and Tests, Colleges and Universities, Dog (animal), Fencing, Halloween
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March 16-20, 2009
Monday, March 16 Bollywood Rhythms Naperville (630) 357-9293 bollywoodrhythms.com -------------------- Tuesday, March 17 Emerald Loop 216 N. Wabash (312) 263-0200 www.emeraldloop.com -------------------- -------------------- Thursday,...Tags: Hot Dogs, Dining and Drinking, Lifestyle and Leisure, Foods and Beverages, Chicago Loop
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A natural winner: Gardening with a concern for the environment, Jae Ro creates a thoughtful--and beautiful--masterpiece
Special to the TribuneWhen Jae and Eunice Ro moved into their present home in Northbrook six years ago, the yard was a ho-hum landscape of lawn, shrubs and a few trees. Now a river runs through ita river of flowers. This river runs cool in spring when dramatic stands of...Tags: Hobbies, Justice System, Morton Arboretum, Hospitals and Clinics, Arts and Culture
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Victorious garden: With a great command of plants and space, Claudia Skylar Mastro fills a small urban lot with charm and grace
Special to the TribuneYou win some, you lose some. Chicago architect Claudia Skylar Mastro won the grand prize in the Glorious Gardens '98 contest with an extraordinary, fanciful landscape in a small urban lot just a few weeks before she was to lose the garden itself. In back...Tags: Bodies of Water, Hobbies, Michigan City, Chicago Tribune, Morton Arboretum
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The Most Glorious Garden of 2007
Tribune staff reporterIt's taken them 10 years of planning, learning, building, digging, traveling, travails and experimentation, but Gerry and Jim Bellanca of Glencoe have a winner.The Bellancas' New Zealand-influenced, rose-laden cottage-style garden, wrapping around a...Tags: Road Transportation, New Zealand, Plant Openings, Justice System, Chicago Tribune
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Glorious in its sophistication: Inspired by Jens Jensen, Bruce Hochstadter's 12-year-old garden captures contest's top honor
!["A native crabapple, a group of violets, a bird bath with a cardinal flower, a virgin's bower clinging to the crabapple, and perhaps a dash of iris or phlox, or lilies if you please, make a garden full of song and poetry."](http://www.chicagotribune.com/media/photo/2009-04/46604936.jpg ""A native crabapple, a group of violets, a bird bath with a cardinal flower, a virgin's bower clinging to the crabapple, and perhaps a dash of iris or phlox, or lilies if you please, make a garden full of song and poetry.\"")
Special to the Tribune"A native crabapple, a group of violets, a bird bath with a cardinal flower, a virgin's bower clinging to the crabapple, and perhaps a dash of iris or phlox, or lilies if you please, make a garden full of song and poetry." --"Siftings" by landscape...Tags: Surgery, Henry Ford, Hobbies, Botany, Springfield
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