Heidi Dugan is on her mobile phone early in the morning, responding to e-mails and texts and tending to very last-minute information of her authentic estate perform. She could sit and sip espresso in a attractive courtyard outdoors or any a single of the cozy rooms in her residence, but […]
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Growing in Illinois State University’s Horticulture Center’s vegetable garden—a living canvas of leafy greens and vibrant heirloom tomatoes—a slender, fingerlike purple pepper caught Jalen Cunningham’s artistic eye. “What’s that one?” Cunningham asked Horticulture Center Director Jessica Chambers ’93. Jalen Cunningham’s vegetable garden design. “It’s a buena mulata pepper,” Chambers said […]
Almost exactly one year ago, this column featured Mangaves, new succulent plants for the garden. Mangaves are new plants because they are crosses between two well-established Mexican plant genera: Agave and Manfreda. Today’s column revisits the Mangaves for two reasons. First, the Cactus & Succulent Society of America recently published […]
