Chicago Botanic Garden

YOUR GARDEN

Plant Information

Visit us onsite or online: the Chicago Botanic Garden offers its resources to all gardeners.

At the Garden, you can take a course, attend a lecture, buy a gardening book, meet 2.2 million garden plants or have your mystery plant identified.

Online gardeners can help themselves to all the detailed plant and gardening information we provide to make their own gardens healthy and beautiful.

Online Gardening

Illinois' Best Plants
Detailed information on the best plants for your garden.

Plant Introductions
Learn the latest new plants offered through the Chicagoland Grows Plant Introduction Program.

Invasive Plants List
Don't plant these! Learn to recognize and remove these least-wanted plants, and what to use instead.

Monthly Gardening Checklists
What to do in the garden and when to do it.

Plant Profiles
Worthy plants for your garden.

Gardening Techniques
From creating a wreath to saving seeds, learn how-to.

Pests & Problems
 Find the information from Cicadas to Emerald Ash Borer.

FAQs
Popular gardening questions and answers.

 

At the Garden

Plant Information Service
We answer 31,000 questions a year. Find your answer with one of the options at the left or call the Plant Information Hotline at (847) 835-0972. You can also email us at .

What's In Bloom?
Which plants are blooming right now?

The School of the Chicago Botanic Garden
Classes for adult and child gardeners of all levels. Members receive discounts.

The Library
Rare horticultural treasures plus 25,000 gardening books, videos, magazines and more. Members have check-out privileges.

Explore the Garden
Plan many visits to see all 23 display gardens plus the 3 natural areas.

Plant Collections
Locate exactly where all the 2.2 million plants are displayed.

 

For a one-on-one consultation, visit the Plant Information Service at the Gateway Visitor Center or call the Plant Information Hotline at (847) 835-0972.