… Senior Staff: Paul Rafac Executive Vice President, Chief Financial Officer, and Treasurer Paul Rafac is executive vice president, chief financial officer, and treasurer of the Chicago Botanic Garden. He oversees institutional financial affairs - while … Executive Vice President, Chief Financial Officer, and Treasurer Paul Rafac is executive vice president, chief financial officer, and treasurer of the Chicago Botanic …
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… floating just above the water. Your step slows; the world gets quieter as the boardwalk ends and you disappear into Spider Island. Though small, Spider Island was designed to create the experience of being in a much larger, more secluded woodland. (Spider Island is the smallest of the nine islands of the Chicago Botanic Garden.) This place is an intimate … in which all forms of nature are celebrated, a place of trees, shrubs, ferns, grasses, sedges, and flowering perennials. In summer, birches provide shade, while dogwoods and willows flourish …
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… Library Links Council on Botanical and Horticultural Libraries, Inc. (CBHL) An international organization of individuals, … botanical and horticultural libraries, archives and related institutions in Europe. “Europe” is interpreted in the widest sense to include countries both within and outside the European Union (EU). https://www.facebook.com/pg/EBHLg/about/?ref=page_internal Linnaeus Link An international collaboration between …
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… A special place for orchids Established in 2018, the Juli Plant Grainger Orchid Collection is one of the newest and most dynamic additions to the Garden's living plant collections. Originating with plants from … to enable year-round orchid displays, showcase the orchid family's remarkable diversity, and support orchid conservation. As the collection has grown, its goals have expanded, … orchids Established in 2018, the Juli Plant Grainger Orchid Collection is one of the newest and most dynamic additions to the Garden's living plant collections. Originating with plants from …
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… another withered plant—this time, a sad collard green—from its pot into the trash. The mess, and the funeral, is for a good cause though. Today, I bravely enter new territory: My neighborhood garden center, … my lenses and asks, “Do you need help?” My plant blindness is showing—literally. The employee points me to an aisle of easy-to-care-for, relatively-indestructible, can’t-possibly-mess-this-up …
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… Markets Windy City Harvest Markets The produce available at the following markets is grown at GAP certified Windy City Harvest urban farm sites using sustainable growing … 11 a.m. – 6 p.m. Saturday, 9 a.m. – 3 p.m. (847) 835-6807 This market is open year-round and operates as a neighborhood grocery store selling seasonal, locally grown produce, plants, seeds, and products to the community. PCC Austin Farm Stand Located at PCC Austin Family Health Center …
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… or viburnum, but it’s easy to take these workhorse shrubs for granted. Plant trends come and go, but as the industry gets carried away with the hottest new thing, favorite old cultivars can slip out of commerce unnoticed. All we need is a new pest, disease, or drought to make us sit up and pay attention to these faithful companions. What if a forgotten cultivar carries the needed … or viburnum, but it’s easy to take these workhorse shrubs for granted. Plant trends come and go, but as the industry gets carried away with the hottest new thing, favorite old cultivars …
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… Separated at Birth: Orchid Lookalikes There’s only one reason orchid flowers look so beautiful and smell so good: to attract a pollinator. Some orchids engage in mimicry, evolving to look like … pollinator they’re trying to lure. Other orchids look familiar to humans, even though there is no connection for the flower. There’s a word for the phenomenon, pareidolia . Click on … papilio looks like a butterfly, is named for the butterfly (papilio is the Latin word), and flutters like a butterfly at the top of its long, delicate step. Yes, it’s pollinated by …
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… The Chicago Botanic Garden is one of the largest public gardens in the world, with more than 2.5 million plants on 385 … by water. These nine Garden islands are joined to one another through a series of bridges and walkways, some of which arch gracefully over the water, while others barely skim the surface, … a counterpoint to the exotic color and fragrance of the exuberant Crescent. This is a favorite site to spot the Garden’s gregarious resident ducks, trumpeter swans, and great blue herons, as …
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… Buehler Enabling Garden The Buehler Enabling Garden is a hands-on teaching garden that encourages gardening for people of all ages and abilities. Colorful raised beds, dramatic container gardens, adaptive tool displays, and model exhibits illustrate gardening techniques that can be used to make gardening accessible … Enabling Garden is a hands-on teaching garden that encourages gardening for people of all ages and abilities. Colorful raised beds, dramatic container gardens, adaptive tool displays, and …
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