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YARD AND GARDEN: Discover the eerie wheel bug | Home & Garden
Master Gardener Darla Chouinard introduces us to the eerie wheel bug. Recently, a neighbor posted a picture of a big scary bug on social media inquiring what it was. I promptly identified it as an assassin bug or a wheel bug specifically an Arilus cristatus (Linnaeus). I am familiar with the wheel bug, as I found a dead one at my house not long before. There are about 160 species of assassin bugs in North America but the cristatus variety is found only in the United States. Even though these bugs are terrifying, they are beneficial to the farmer and gardener. Their diet includes “pest insects” including insect eggs, leafhoppers,…
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Haag: Give thanks for plants | Home & Garden
BRITTNAY HAAG Everyone should add plants to their “thankful list” this year. Through photosynthesis, plants create oxygen in our atmosphere, which allows us to breathe fresh air. Also, directly, or indirectly, practically all food comes from plants. There are over 350,000 plant species in the world … we have a lot to be thankful for Benefit Group. As a horticulturist, you can imagine I love and appreciate plants. My career revolves around plants, but my life has always revolved around plants too. Growing up on a Central Illinois farm, my parents instilled a love of plants and growing things at an early age. Many plants deserve my thanks this year.…
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Bronzes, burgundies, fall finery highlight this year’s Thanksgiving flowers | Home & Garden
Denise Golfis, owner of Denise Floral Designs in St. John, incorporates pumpkins, wheat and dried flowers in her fall creations. Florist Denise Golfis notes that her older clients prefer traditional arrangements while her younger ones want something more rustic. Jen Steliga, owner of Monarch Florist and Events, highlights burgundy and bronze flowers with fuscia and orange to make the arrangement pop. “We like to do asymmetric arrangements, which are pretty and interesting,” says florist…
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Best vintage home decor | WFLA
Which vintage property decor is ideal? Your dwelling is your sanctuary and really should be the best expression of your type and passions. Classic residence Home Decoration that will take you back to your most loved time period in history is the fantastic way to decorate a room. The modern a long time of American historical past have some of the most unique colors, models and models of any time interval. From the 1950s to the 1980s, you can uncover some good finds that will completely transform your residence into a time equipment. How to select classic dwelling decor When you decide on a classic topic for your dwelling, you…
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Barany in the Garden: Perennials in the cold | Explore Yakima
It’s funny how a person day you can be out gardening in your favored pair of shorts, and just a number of days later you are pulling on excess layers of polar fleece. Even however I do my best to mentally put together, I’m hardly ever really prepared to see a further gardening yr appear to an finish. Over the final several weeks, I have discovered myself checking the extended weather forecast various occasions each day, exploring for borrowed time. But I’ve been a gardener long more than enough to know that Jack Frost will finally win the race. If all I grew have been domestically native plants, I’d have…
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Ballwin split-level combines midcentury aesthetic with artist’s works | Home & Garden
The living room features a mix of family mementos, vintage and modern furniture along with illustrations, paintings and art by Janet. The midcentury bookcase prized by Janet’s parents acts as a divider between the main living space and the hallway to the bedroom. One of Murphy the pug’s comfy beds stays in the living room. An illustration of a magneto, created by Janet, hangs in the living room. A magneto was used in engines. It is a small electric generator containing a permanent magnet that provide high-voltage pulses, sparks, in the ignition…
