Enjoy Your Visit — WALK THE GARDEN

Enjoy a Seasonal Garden Walk

The Garden can be experienced in so many ways at every time of the year. Perhaps the most immediate and gratifying experience is to walk the Garden. A spring walk can be fragrant and inspiring; a summer walk may be warm and intense; an autumn walk may be a thrill of color and sound; and a winter walk can be invigorating and nurturing. Find your own pathway — paved, bark-lined, or meandering — and make the Garden your own.

The outer circuit of the Garden is an ideal place for a fitness walk, a high-intensity run, or a leisurely stroll, at any time of day and in every season. First thing in the morning, join the birds and herons testing out the new day. Will the fog lift? Will the clear sky become decorated with white clouds? Late on a summer evening, watch the sun set as the lights illuminate Evening Island.

Enhance your next visit to the Garden with one of these walks:

	A WALK THROUGH THE GARDEN'S GREENHOUSES Come inside and refresh yourself as you discover the healing and spiritual properties of hundreds of unusual plants!
	Celebrate Winter In winter, a well-designed garden tells a story of texture, color, and shape. It speaks through evergreens and berries, textural barks, and colorful stems.
	A WALK IN THE DIXON PRAIRIE Walk the Prairie in fall and reconnect with your heritage. It will delight all — schoolchildren, gardeners, bird-watchers, and nature enthusiasts — with its rich communities of life.
	An Autumn Walk in the Garden The textures and colors of autumn bring delight to walking visitors at the Garden with fall-blooming daises, unusual bulbs and prairie grasses in full seed.
	EARLY FALL WOWS Not only are the annuals, perennials, vines, trees, and shrubs at the peak of their growth, but each individual garden here has been planted up with extra horticultural “wows”
	SCULPTURE Walk There is always something new to see or experience, for the Garden offers unique pleasures — one of which is the Garden's sculpture collection.
	Bonsai Walk This outdoor exhibit opens in late April and lasts until approximately early November. Fifty of the showiest trees, at their prime moments of ornamental appeal, are chosen for public outdoor display in the Searle and Runnells Courtyards adjacent to the Regenstein Center.
	Along the Water's Edge The Garden's 5.7 miles of shoreline invite walkers to experience the serenity of the lakes and other water features.
	A SUMMER Evening Walk Through the Garden The interplay of light and lengthening shadows creates a completely different feeling for visitors walking through the Garden.
	The English Walled Garden The six distinct rooms of the English Walled Garden demonstrate unique English gardening styles from the formal checkerboad to abundant cottage garden.
	A Walk Through the Crescent Garden Anticipation upon entering the Chicago Botanic Garden is rewarded with the eight curving, terraced beds of the Crescent.
	Explore the Dwarf Conifer Garden A walk through the newly renovated Dwarf Conifer Garden is truly a plant lover's feast for the eyes.
	June is the Month of Roses Stroll through the Rose Garden to experience one of the highlights of the Chicago Botanic Garden's collections.
	May and the Colors of Spring There are so many reasons why we love spring, but one of the most compelling is the return of glorious color to the formerly white and gray world.
	McDonald Woods To understand spring, you must walk in the woods. Here, in the Chicago Botanic Garden's McDonald Woods, spring arrives unaided by mowers and edgers, or fertilizers and bags of peat moss.
	April Crab Apple Walk A beautiful spring walk designed to capture the crab apples and other magical vistas, begins at the Overlook, next to the English Walled Garden.
	Spring Spring is arriving, slowly to be sure, but as it takes its time, it offers us an extended period to witness, and savor, its gifts.