… rather than a single stalk. Archived Copy: This content was captured before February 2022, and is no longer being updated. …
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… if pollinators are present. Archived Copy: This content was captured before February 2022, and is no longer being updated. …
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… also find it irresistible. Archived Copy: This content was captured before February 2022, and is no longer being updated. …
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… fascinated with Beatrix Potter, the creator of The Tale of Peter Rabbit. I remember wanting to visit Hill Top Farm, Potter’s home, after finding a photo of children reading by the fireplace … Society—which had a few assumptions about women and their research. Beatrix’s full name is Helen Beatrix Potter . She shares her first name with her mother, Helen Leech Potter, who was … some of her drawings H.B.P. It was summer forays from the Potters’ London family home—first to Dalguise House in Perthshire, Scotland, and later England’s Lake District—that inspired …
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… In other seasons, people tend to breeze right by conifers in favor of, say, roses that scent summer evenings or crabapple trees … the plants that shine. Recently, we ran a blog about cultivating awe on winter walks, on how to shift your energy and attention outward instead of inward for emotional well-being. One easy way to do that at the Chicago Botanic Garden or anywhere you walk is to seek out the company of evergreens. That includes most conifers, which are plants that …
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… It’s been another fantastic season at Butterflies & Blooms at the Chicago Botanic Garden. This is my second year working at Butterflies & Blooms, and I think it’s looking better than ever. The … big, hairy atlas moth cocoons, and I was a little concerned about whether they would have time to emerge before we have to shut our doors for the season. When I came into the pupae chamber a few days after they …
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… bloom in August, they immediately thought, “puppet.” An unusual thought, unless you happen to be Ross…or his mom, Debi Gerbasi…or artist Jessica Plummer. These three started making puppets … project. Slowly, the basement of Debi’s house turned into a creative factory, with floor-to-ceiling plastic walls around the sanders, saws, and drills. (A separate, dust-free area houses … sewing room.) Jessica took the creative lead for shaping the titan puppet, which is made of foam. Paper templates came first; next came foam that could be heated, bent, sanded, …
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… Natalie Love is an urban and spatial ecologist with a focus on urban trees. Her research focuses on assessing …
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… tight four-piece rhythm section, and four powerful singers who command the stage, this is no ordinary band! Brass from the Past plays the music of Stevie Wonder, Four Tops, …
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