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Preview Benefit March 6 Enjoy a festive evening of food, cocktails, and an exclusive opportunity to experience the Chicago Flower & Garden Show before the show opens at an "Evening in Bloom" — a preview benefit and fundraising event at Navy Pier. Proceeds from the evening benefit six local cultural institutions, including the Chicago Botanic Garden. Click here to purchase tickets.

EVENTS Calendar

The Garden Emerges at the
Chicago Flower & Garden Show

March 7 – 15, 2009

 

The Chicago Flower & Garden show breathes spring into the air, dazzling visitors to its Navy Pier location with bursts of bright color and lovely floral displays, from March 7 through 15.

The Chicago Botanic Garden will be there, represented by experts discussing a number of gardening issues. Gardening seminars at the show are a highlight to the multitudes eager for tips and yearning for time in their own gardens. The seminars are free with admission to the show.

This year, the Garden partners with Mariani Landscape to design and install an Asian-inspired display garden. It will be titled "Hope for Healing the Planet."

Chicago Botanic Garden members receive $2 off regular-priced tickets to the Chicago Flower & Garden Show. Present your valid membership card at the time of purchase at the ticket booths at Navy Pier in order to receive this discount.

 

Potting Parties

Don't miss the chance to help the Garden while having fun! Three times each day, on March 7, 8, 9, and 15, join Garden volunteers for these hands-on container-gardening workshops. A fee applies, and all proceeds benefit the Garden.

 

Seminars Include:

Sat., March 7	12:30 p.m.		Nancy Clifton: “A Pot for All Seasons: Four-Season Container Gardening”
Mon., March 9	2:30 p.m.		Eliza Fournier: “Greening Your Home Garden: Easy Ways to Reduce Your Landscape's Carbon Footprint”
Tues., March 10	2:30 p.m.		Rick Belding: “Top Ten Cool-Season Crops: Growing Vegetables is Cool”
Wed., March 11	11 a.m.		Tim Johnson: “Pruning Principles: To Keep Landscape Plants Looking Their Best”
Thurs., March 12	11 a.m.		Galen Gates: “Four Seasons of Garden Interest”
Fri., March 13	11 a.m.		Sheryl DeVore: “Gardening for the Birds”
	11:30 a.m.		Tim Pollak: “Colorful Combinations for Containers”
Sat., March 14	11:30 a.m.		Richard Hawke: “Tried and True! Proven Perennials from the Chicago Botanic Garden’s Trials”

For more information, visit www.chicagoflower.com.