group visits

Free Style Cuneo Museum & Gardens Tour
Tuesday through Sunday throughout the year

The Chicago Botanic Garden and the Cuneo Museum & Gardens have partnered to offer a day of touring designed with your independence in mind. You plan the day around your schedule. Start at the Cuneo Museum, then visit the Chicago Botanic Garden or the other way around, it’s up to you.

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Free Style Touring
May through October

Let your guests choose their own tour and meal time day of your visit. Café vouchers and our tour passport allow participants to experience the Garden on their own while still prepaying.

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All-Year Programs and Workshops
Availability Varies

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Container Tour
Available Year-Round

Join Garden staff for a walking tour of seasonal containers as well as a workshop or demonstration. Have your guests make their own small container to take home. Then relax with a boxed lunch.

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Garden Herbs Tour
Tuesdays, throughout the year

In this tour, your group will discover where to find herbs at the Chicago Botanic Garden. You’ll also acquire new skills and tips on how to enhance your own cooking with herbs straight from your garden at home.

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Herbal Spa Tour
Tuesdays, throughout the year

Everyone needs to escape every once in a while. Escape to the Chicago Botanic Garden and enjoy a relaxing day in beautiful surroundings. Learn how to make herbal spa treatments at home, catch up with friends during lunch and enjoy the serenity of our 23 gardens.

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Lenhardt Library Tour
Tuesdays – Fridays, throughout the year

One of the greatest treasures of the Chicago Botanic Garden is the Lenhardt Library. This tour package includes a look at the rare book reading room, a library tour, an exhibit tour, and many more great features

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Spring Blooms Tour
April 28 – May 31, 2008

Experience the Garden during spring! Your group will see cherries and magnolias in the Japanese Garden, perennials everywhere, and other beautiful blooms. This time of the year is also great to view the 225 different species of resident and migrating diving ducks, warblers, buntings, cuckoos, hummingbirds, and many others that pass through this area for just a few weeks on their journey to the north. This visit will make spring your group's favorite season.

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Flower Arranging Tour
Available spring and summer

Learn the art of arranging on a close-up walking tour of blooms and plants in the Garden. Then get a hands-on experience with a workshop. After all that work, enjoy a relaxing boxed lunch.

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Summer Evenings Tour
June – August, 2008

Enjoy a summer evening at the Chicago Botanic Garden with the Twilight Group Tour Package. Includes spectacular sunsets, Grand Tram ride, outdoor buffet dining, and live entertainment on Mondays and Tuesdays

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Fall Garden Tour
Fall 2008.

Experience the Garden with the Garden Tour Package! Your group will see the Japanese Garden, perennials everywhere, and other beautiful blooms. This time of the year is also great to view the 225 different species of resident and migrating diving ducks, warblers, buntings, cuckoos, hummingbirds, and many others that pass through this area for just a few weeks on their journey to the North.

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