… Rich pink cup shaped flowers with ruffled edges are accentuated with a dark burgundy eye on this hardy, deciduous hibiscus. Deep green leaves provide an elegant …
Type: Garden Guide Plant
… pink calyces on wiry stems that dance in the breezes above the large silver leaves accentuated with charcoal veins and stems. Grows best in semi-shaded areas with consistent soil moisture. …
Type: Garden Guide Plant
… Blue Shag white pine is a dwarf, densely rounded conifer with short bluish-green needles. Effective in rock gardens or in a foundation planting with grows to 4 feet tall and prefers well-drained soil in full to part shade. …
Type: Garden Guide Plant
… New! In this two-day workshop, you will learn how to create compelling architectural images with an in-depth overview of composition. We will begin with a presentation, followed by putting those tips into practice with hands-on instruction photographing the architecture around the Garden. There will be a …
Type: Item Detail
… 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, …
Type: Staff bio
… 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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… 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
… 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
… 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
