Cindy Baker visits Botanic Backyard with answers on great perennial picks for your home garden, including the beautiful shade-blooming foamflower and Solomon's seal.
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Eliza Fournier visits Chicago Tonight to talk about spring! Divide your perennials, plant a soilless spring container, and put in a rain garden with these expert tips. Video copyright©2012 WGN Chicago |
Benjamin Carroll answers Botanic Backyard questions with Ana Belaval on what to do about frost-damaged plants, and how to care for tender sapling trees this cold spring. Video copyright©2012 WGN Chicago |
Heather Sherwood, Senior Horticulturist, explains what frost damage looks like, helps us select cool season annuals to grow and shows how to protect annuals from frost. Video copyright©2012 ABC7 Chicago |
Nancy Clifton gives tips on what to plant in containers now for a pretty, easy, and early spring vegetable crop. Video copyright©2012 WGN Chicago |
Eliza Fournier visits Chicago Tonight with tips on what our early spring means for gardeners, what to plant now, and what a switch from USDA Zone 5b to Zone 6a means for Chicagoans. Video copyright©2012 WTTW |
Nancy Clifton offers advice on good spring bloomers for your garden that will survive a possible frost. Video copyright©2012 WGN Chicago |
Unseasonably warm temperatures are causing May flowers to bloom a lot sooner, and they are bringing in a batch of early bugs. Video copyright©2012 ABC7 Chicago |
Cindy Baker answers Botanic Backyard questions on safe use of, and winter pruning with chainsaws. Video copyright©2012 WGN Chicago |
Nancy Clifton visits Botanic Backyard to answer questions about winter pruning and talks about the Garden's first annual seed swap on Sunday, February 26. Video copyright©2012 WGN Chicago |
Heather Sherwood and Mike Caplan share tips for Valentine's Day gifts and arrangements; how to keep your cut flowers longer; and which gifts you can plant and keep for the season. Video copyright©2012 ABC7 Chicago |
Ivan Watters, curator of the Chicago Botanic Garden's bonsai collection, talks about the show and the culture and creation of bonsai. Video copyright©2012 ABC7 Chicago |
A January thaw brings out some interesting early blooms. Mike Caplan and Heather Sherwood to talk about January plant care in warm (and cold and snowy) weather. Video copyright©2012 ABC7 Chicago |
Find the Chicago Botanic Garden on the Discovery Network! Catch Dirty Jobs with Mike Rowe: Doomsday Seed Banker Video copyright©2011 Discovery |
