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Zone 5 – Favorites On The 5th – About.com’s Creative Garden Recycling Tips

By Carol Cichorski, on July 5th, 2013%

This is so perfect – a twofer. Yep, two for the price of one. Today’s Favorites on the Fifth covers creativity and About.com. We’ll use About.com as our reference tool for left brain vs. right brain, and for creative garden recycling tips.

Personally, I’m creative. It may take me a while to come up with . . . → Read More: Zone 5 – Favorites On The 5th – About.com’s Creative Garden Recycling Tips

Zone 5 – Favorites On The 5th – Open Days Program

By Carol Cichorski, on June 5th, 2013%

Bill Kurtis drove me around his garden on a golf cart. Boy was I surprised. I figured the kind person offering to chauffeur us around Bill Kurtis’s garden was one of the workers. Actually, it was one of the workers – the one who just happened to be Bill Kurtis himself.

That moment was just . . . → Read More: Zone 5 – Favorites On The 5th – Open Days Program

Zone 5 – Favorites On The 5th – This Is What Creativity Looks Like In Sweden

By Carol Cichorski, on May 5th, 2013%

How can it be time for Favorites on the Fifth again? Can today really be the 5th? Can it really be May? Doesn’t the world know I’m busy tagging, sorting, inventorying, and selling dahlias and can’t spend time at my computer? Is Erik Johansson really flattened onto the ironing board you see below? Ok, now . . . → Read More: Zone 5 – Favorites On The 5th – This Is What Creativity Looks Like In Sweden

Zone 5 – Favorites On The 5th – Top 10 Takeaways From The Chicago Flower & Garden Show

By Carol Cichorski, on April 5th, 2013%

Session after session after session after session. As the On-Site Seminar Manager for the Chicago Flower & Garden show, you’ve got to figure I have some takeaways to share. No, not leftover plants from the displays (darn). For this month’s Favorites on the Fifth, I’ll share my list of favorite informational takeaways from the show.

Zone 5 – Favorites On The 5th – Speaking At The Chicago Flower & Garden Show

By Carol Cichorski, on March 5th, 2013%

I love this quote that Beth Burden sent out to all of the speakers at this year’s Chicago Flower & Garden Show…

IF YOU ARE DELAYED FOR ANY REASON: please call Carol, our on-site seminar manager.

Yep. Me. On-site seminar manager at the Chicago Flower & Garden Show that runs March 9 – 17 at . . . → Read More: Zone 5 – Favorites On The 5th – Speaking At The Chicago Flower & Garden Show

Zone 5 – Favorites On The 5th – Don’t Make A Boo Boo Honey For Valentine’s Day

By Carol Cichorski, on February 5th, 2013%

It’s Elementary. Valentine’s Day is not the time to make a Boo Boo Honey. You want your loved one to know they are a Person of Interest to you. Whether you are a Modern Family or among the Young and the Restless, you don’t have to Keep Up With the Kardishians or take a . . . → Read More: Zone 5 – Favorites On The 5th – Don’t Make A Boo Boo Honey For Valentine’s Day

Zone 5 – Favorites On The 5th – The Not-So-Insignificant Snowflake

By Carol Cichorski, on January 5th, 2013%

Mike’s snowman pancake is pretty impressive. Now that’s my idea of creativity. Creativity that you can copy for breakfast tomorrow.

Ah, but the creativity that it takes to make a real snowflake; that is creativity on a whole different level. That’s creativity God-style, with a twist. I can just picture him thinking up the . . . → Read More: Zone 5 – Favorites On The 5th – The Not-So-Insignificant Snowflake

Zone 5 – Favorites On The 5th – Creativity in the Garden

By Carol Cichorski, on December 5th, 2012%

Today we celebrate creativity. At least I do. In particular, I celebrate that I’ll be speaking about ‘Creativity in the Garden’ at the Chicago Flower and Garden Show on March 12th. The topic has intrigued me for a long time, and now it will be time for me to do something about it. Something creative. . . . → Read More: Zone 5 – Favorites On The 5th – Creativity in the Garden

Zone 5 – Favorites On The 5th – One Sad Amaryllis

By Carol Cichorski, on November 5th, 2012%

I told you in the title that my amaryllis looked sad. But you didn’t believe me, did you? I bet you do now. One look at this picture and you are probably wondering what the heck happened to it. Summer outside is what happened to it. So now here I am with one droopy . . . → Read More: Zone 5 – Favorites On The 5th – One Sad Amaryllis

Zone 5 – Favorites on the 5th – On the Farm(ish)

By Carol Cichorski, on October 5th, 2012%

In honor of Favorites on the 5th, we are going to travel to another world. No, I haven’t gone alien-crazy, I’m talking city v. country. I’ve always been a city gal, born and raised in Chicago, moving to the requisite suburbs to raise a family. Ah, but inside me is a country gal. I admit . . . → Read More: Zone 5 – Favorites on the 5th – On the Farm(ish)

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