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CHICAGO — Three stories above a busy stretch of North Halsted Street, on a rooftop with views of downtown skyscrapers, crickets chirp and prairie flowers dance in the breeze. Waist-high grasses set the tone in a sprawling 2,500-square-foot native garden dotted with bright blooms: golden brown-eyed Susan, purple hoary vervain, yellow stiff goldenrod, snowy white turtlehead, lime-tinged spotted ...

Three stories above a busy stretch of North Halsted, on a rooftop with views of downtown skyscrapers, crickets chirp and prairie flowers dance in the breeze. Waist-high grasses set the tone in a sprawling 2,500-square-foot native garden dotted with bright blooms: golden brown-eyed Susan, purple hoary vervain, yellow stiff goldenrod, snowy white turtlehead, lime-tinged spotted beebalm. In all, ...

All plants grown in the garden are native to somewhere, just not necessarily to our local region.

With more than 30 species of native plants, the "Purpose Garden" at the YMCA of St. Joseph was inducted into the Native Gardens of Excellence program.

Professional home baker Alma Lopez doesn’t have a TV show or how-to book demonstrating her baking and cake decorating skills, but her colorful finished pieces of baked art are worthy