“By all these lovely tokens, September days are here. With summer’s best of weather and autumn’s best of cheer.” — Helen Hunt Jackson In 1875, Helen Hunt married William Jackson of Colorado Springs and made Colorado her home. Surely, they had our shared experiences of September days being noticeably shorter, with cooler nights and pleasant daytime weather. I wonder what …
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IRON MOUNTAIN — Michigan State University Extension will offer a Foundations of Gardening Fall course on Tuesdays starting next week to Nov. 21. The virtual live lectures will run from 10 a.m. to 12:30 p.m. Eastern time. Foundations of Gardening is a 10-week MSU Extension course that explores many aspects of gardening. Lessons include self-paced learning opportunities and …
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Are you looking for color, variety and texture in your landscape? Adding wildflowers might be the solution as an eye-catching niche garden or an expansive pollinator meadow. A wildflower meadow — a blend of wildflower varieties with native grasses such as Switchgrass, Side Oats Grama and Little Bluestem — benefits bees, insects and wildlife with food and habitat. It is …
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