… Chicago Botanic Garden. My role is primarily leading and assisting the seasonal aquatics crew with fieldwork during the growing season. Field management throughout the year includes planting native species, removing invasive species, managing algae both manually and with algaecide, native seed collection, water quality testing, controlled burns, and vegetation monitoring. Paired with fieldwork, my role includes surveying the lakes and shorelines to monitor species diversity, …
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… Gardeners with heavy, clay, or even tainted soil might consider constructing a raised bed outlined with durable, untreated lumber. The boxed bed is then filled with a perfect, lightweight mix of topsoil, compost, and leaf mold. Other small-space gardeners …
Type: Plant Info
… Build with sticks, crawl through logs, run on hills, create with natural materials like rocks, pinecones, leaves, and mud. This event will run rain or … to attending. Chicago Botanic Garden Members do not need to register. Offered in partnership with The Alliance for Early Childhood as part of the Let's Play! Ongoing Community Program. …
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… sunshine to produce its sweet fruit. The unusual flowers have edible pink and white petals with a dense cluster of red stamens with yellow tips. The leaves are green with silvery undersides. The tree grows to about fifteen feet tall and wide and is widely planted …
Type: Garden Guide Plant
… spikes of dense velvety-purple flowers from the summer into fall. It’s a butterfly magnet with its honey-scented blooms. It likes full sun and good soil with regular watering to ensure it doesn’t wilt. Removing the spent spikes will keep new flowers … you cut it back to one foot when the blooming slows, it will grow quickly into a bigger bush with many more flowers in the spring. …
Type: Garden Guide Plant
… shrub grows in a low mound (it’s only three feet tall!) that’s great for filling up a border with beautiful pale blue flowers nestled among silvery foliage beginning in late summer with secondary blooms continuing in the fall. It needs full sun with consistently moist, well- drained soil to bring out those honey scented blooms that the …
Type: Garden Guide Plant
… class, you will discover how to prepare a classic North Indian vegetarian meal with ease. The menu features dal makhani, a slow-cooked lentil curry with fresh tomatoes; fragrant basmati rice infused with cumin seeds; and a refreshing cucumber-mint raita to complement the meal. Learn the basics …
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… Hibiscus 'Turn of the Century' has stunning bicolored flowers with almost white petals edged with deep pink and accented with deep pink to red centers. The flowers are 6 to 9 inches in diameter. At maturity the plant …
Type: Garden Guide Plant
… fragrant reticulata-type dwarf iris features bluebird-blue standards and royal blue falls with a white-edged yellow blotch. The triangular-shaped leaves elongate after flowering to 12 … go dormant near midsummer. Over time, each bulb will produce offsets resulting in showy clumps with dozens of flowers. This cultivar was created when Iris reticulata was hybridized with Iris histrioides var. major and has received the Award of Merit and a First Class …
Type: Garden Guide Plant
… bulb. Maché Orange Persian buttercup ( Ranunculus asiaticus 'Maché Orange') is popular with homeowners as a forced bulb in early spring, and with the cut flower industry later in the year as a highlight in bouquets. Plant breeders have hybridized the native Persian species with others to produce a series of hybrids better adapted to cool, temperate climate conditions, …
Type: Garden Guide Plant
