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Our bloom of the century

Agave Century Plant

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Pantone’s Color of the Year

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Plants that made headlines in 2025

fashion inspired by ornamental grasses

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Growing Nature Lovers

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A Cosmic Portal in the Garden

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My Ofrenda Story

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The Last Show

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Carved to Perfection

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Meet the Bees of the McCormick Place Rooftop Farm

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Gardenhenge

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The Secret to Long-Lasting Tulips

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Typeface Brings Orchid Show to Life

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Rescuing Plants from Poachers

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Full Moon Eclipse

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The Orchid Show Murals

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My Beloved Saree

Saree – Red Banner

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Plant Stories we Loved in 2024

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Endangered Bee Discovered at the Garden

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Following his Ancestors’ Path, a Scientist Finds Purpose

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Haunted Island

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Where Wellness Blooms

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Celebrating Pride Month

Blog Celebrating Pride Month – Progress Pride Flag

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Get the Buzz on Cicadas

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Ready to remake your Garden?

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Orchid Show of Wonders

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Celebrating Black History Month

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Emmy-Winning Orchid Show Video

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Plants Are Trending

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A Letter to Summer (from Winter)

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From Grower to Giver

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Tips from a Lightscape Designer

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The Veteran Internship Program: A soft (and green) place to land

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Jump for joy! Our cascading mums are back

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Loving fall—to the harvest moon and back

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The Garden’s nightlife

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The sweetness of summer solitude

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Barbie’s Garden Party

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Loving mistletoe—but not for the reason you think

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What’s in Bloom? Love.

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Why Pride Month Is So Beautiful: A Scientist’s Perspective

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To Mow or Not to Mow…

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The Garden Embraces Artificial Intelligence

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Welcome, gardeners, to the Year of the Rabbit

Lunar New Year - Year of the Rabbit

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Reflecting on Martin Luther King, Jr.’s legacy

Windy City Harvest

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Golden Memories

50 Year Members

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Plant stories we love

Orchid show

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Our Commitment to Indigenous Communities

Fall

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Art installation uses poetry to explore the emotional side of plants

Together

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Where Love is in the Air

Japanese Bridge

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Single-handedly Teaching About Titans

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Checking the Weather? So Are We

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Making the trains run at the Model Railroad Garden

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The Team Behind the GardenGuide App

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What to see on the first day of fall

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Atlas Moths & African Moon Moths Are Here

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What’s so powerful about a powerfully bad smell?

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For the Love of Trains

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Butterflies in Print

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Extreme Pumpkins

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A Winter Walk Through the Malott Japanese Garden

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It’s a Girl: Flowers Climb the Baby Name Lists

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Celebrate with Us

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Now Blooming: Vanilla

Attenti

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Living Monuments: Inside the White House Kitchen Garden

Preside

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Beatrix Potter: Author, Illustrator, Naturalist, Environmentalist – An Early Woman in STEM

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Let Nature Be Your Eclipse Viewing Guide

We love

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For the Ages: the Helen and Richard Thomas English Walled Garden

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Dedicated to the one I love

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A Sip of Salep

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A Flower-Powered Picnic

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Hand to Hand

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A Long Row to Hoe: How Gardening Offers a Primer for Life

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True Garden Love Stories

Of all

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Can Spike’s “Perfume” Be Captured in a Jar?

Of the

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What’s that smell?

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Catch Summer and Pokémon at the Chicago Botanic Garden

Pokémon

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10 Romantic Getaways at the Garden

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Your garden in summer's ups and downs

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We loved fungi first

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Butterfly Bushes, Torch Lilies, and More

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Moon walk? Yes, please

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New Year’s gardening resolutions from our horticulturists

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What Inspires Lightscape Artists?

Chicago

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Acknowledging Indigenous Peoples Day

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A Garden Fit for Emperors (and You)

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Romantic Spots to Pop the Question

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Studying in an amazing, open-air encyclopedia

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Seeing Nature Through a New Lens

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Documenting—and Digitizing—Biodiversity

In 2017

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Happy Birthday, Rachel Carson

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Building a 21st Century Victory Garden

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A Garden spring none of us imagined

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Celebrate National Poetry Month with Garden Haiku

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Ten Romantic Spots to Pop the Question

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About that name: behind Alice the Amorphophallus

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A Garden Fit for Royalty

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Water, Water Everywhere: The Garden as Floodplain

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Spring Containers Are Here

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The Beauty of Orchids in Ikebana

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What a week at Portland Japanese Garden!

In Nove

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Behind the Scenes at Asia in Bloom: The Orchid Show

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Creating Brilliance: The Orchid Show

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The Plant Hunters

Garden

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Behind-the-scenes at Lightscape

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How a Veteran Transformed Her Life

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Ties to America’s First Botanist

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Plant theater puts Garden’s stars on new stage

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Century Plant Blooming After a Quarter of a Century

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A Cart Full of Wonder and Whimsy

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Traveling Down the Glacier

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Dreaming Up In the Tropics: The Orchid Show

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Conservation Corps Teens Dig Into Summer

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Corpse Flowers Go on an Excellent Adventure

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