… will receive a 1-year Garden Plus (Household) membership. View a Gallery of Entries What to Enter We are looking for striking digital images in two categories: Winter landscapes at the Garden Winter landscapes at home or your neighborhood. How to Enter To enter the contest, … The Garden reserves the right to disqualify any entrant whose entry or conduct appears in any way to: inhibit the enjoyment of others; tamper with the competition; violate these rules or …
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… Pondering the Prairie Series Did I mention Gentian? If I didn’t, I should have. These are the stars of the … Talk about taking your breath away! It seems that a brilliantly colored flower is necessary to attract pollinators to a plant of such short stature that chooses to bloom at a time when its … the closed petals and pollinate the flowers. Smaller bees, which are unable to force their way in, will sometimes cut a slit at the base of the flower and steal nectar. Once, when I was …
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… Heuchera richardsonii var. grayana or Prairie Alumroot, is native to the Midwest; found in Illinois, Missouri and the adjacent states. It is a variety of the species that was described …
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… watering, fertilizing, pruning, edging, deadheading, staking, and mulching practices make the difference between a healthy, well-kept garden and a landscape that gets ahead of you. You will have a hands-on opportunity to practice what you learn, so bring along a pair of pruners. Perfect for all skill levels. Tim Johnson, senior director of horticulture, Chicago Botanic Garden …
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… throughout summer and fall on a hardy perennial plant that tops out at 6 feet in height. The large, glossy leaves are irregularly divided into three or more lobes. It's a great plant for the back of flower beds in full sun. Water it well the first year to get the root system established, and thereafter only during periods of extreme drought. This …
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… At the Chicago Botanic Garden, our staff community is working on being intentional in the way we do our work. In September 2022, we introduced a new set of values: growth, understanding, … and trust and transparency. These values guide the work of our community and are our day-to-day actions that tie together everything we do. This new set of values prompted many questions …
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… The kalanchoe is known as felt bush because of the heavy covering of indumentum (hairs) on all surfaces of the large, triangular leaves. This species is native to some of the drier parts of the island of Madagascar, where the indumentum helps retain … some of the intensive tropical sunlight. The terminal flower clusters are very rarely seen in cultivation. Pale green flowers are marked with maroon nectar guides that direct pollinating …
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… Hamelia patens , aka Mexican firebush or Hummingbird bush, can be found from Florida all the way down to Argentina and is in the same family as the coffee plant (Rubiaceae). The bright,non-stop …
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… and Namibia, producing creamy white flowers on a branch well-armed with spines. With time, the small specimen in the Garden's greenhouses will produce a swollen trunk, the basis for the common name. Like … sap of the leaves and stems is highly toxic and, in fact, Namibian hunters often used the sap to poison their arrow tips. The sap can also cause blindness if it gets into the eye. …
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… clusters of flowers with dark red petals and a bright yellow corona from late spring through to the first frost of fall. The flowers attract nectar feeding pollinators while the leaves are food for monarch butterfly larvae. Plant in full sun, moderately fertile soil and water to get the root system established. Unfortunately this native of southern Mexico and Central America …
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