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Shop the Mum Sale at COD Greenhouse on September 11th and 12th.

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Shop the Mum Sale at COD Greenhouse on September 11th and 12th.

All greenhouse plants are grown on campus by College of DuPage staff and students. The annual Fall Chrysanthemum Sale will again be held on September 11 and 12. Courtesy of COD Press Photography The College of DuPage Horticulture Program’s annual Fall Chrysanthemum Sale will be held on Wednesday, September 11, from noon to 5 p.m. […]

How the State Sparked a Stylish, Sustainable Architecture Trend – Garden & Gun

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How the State Sparked a Stylish, Sustainable Architecture Trend – Garden & Gun

Alabama is not usually confused with England. But that could change. This story begins in 1978 in the English countryside, where a Selma-born architecture student named Bobby McAlpine came across stone houses roofed with thatch—reeds or straw tied tightly together. “Previously, illustrations and films had suggested they existed in some mythical realm,” he recalls. When […]