… Winter is always a good time to slip into a chair with some hot chocolate and do a little reading. A … Your Favorite Perennials by Nancy Ondra Homegrown Pantry: A Gardener's Guide to Selecting the Best Varieties & Planting the Perfect Amounts for What You Want to Eat Year-Round by Barbara …
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… four bird species that usually live in northern boreal and mixed coniferous forests. They come to feast on birch catkins, alder seeds, and spruce cone seeds as well as on thistles in feeders right here at the Garden. Birders and photographers point binoculars and cameras to the trees and feeders to get a closer view or snapshot of these handsome northerly visitors. … in garden plantings, and in the wild. Seed production on trees varies from year to year. It is the tree's way of saving energy. But in some years, trees across the northern region take a …
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… Dan Kiley (1912 – 2004), and designed by his colleague Peter Morrow Meyer, the Esplanade is one of the Chicago Botanic Garden's most public spaces, bringing visitors down to the water in a most inviting way. It is the "front door" to the Joseph Regenstein, Jr. School of the Chicago Botanic Garden, which was originally designed …
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… The Velvet Queen The Velvet Queen is one of a few corpse flowers of its kind anywhere—it had three flowering spikes bloom, all from … or bulb-like tuber. Eastern Illinois University donated the rare Amorphophallus titanum to the Garden in 2018. The Velvet Queen first bloomed for the university in 2008 and has bloomed … corpse flowers, and we were excited to see what would happen. As it turned out, our small on-site team got a big surprise in the staff-only production greenhouses—and treat. It's unsual …
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… exhibition, create your own sculpture using natural materials, and pot up a sculptural plant to take home. Note: Don't forget to bring a picnic dinner! Dessert is provided. Register online for Nature Nights: Sculpture Scavenger Hunt …
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… Accessibility at the Garden We strive to make the Garden a place where all—including staff, students, program participants, visitors, … are available free at the Information Desk in the Visitor Center. Accessible parking is located in parking lots 1 and 2. Nearly all areas of the Garden are accessible by wheelchair, … quantities are limited. The ECV is a single-person chair only. Young children are not allowed to operate or ride on the chair. Operators must be 16 years of age or older. All operators …
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… 2015 Burrell Robinson remembers applying for Corps and telling his interviewer, “All you have to do is give me a chance. I’ll make it through the whole program and make you proud.” He kept up his end of the bargain, not only graduating from Corps in 2015 but continuing on to complete the Windy City Harvest Apprenticeship while simultaneously working full-time at …
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… Rodrigo Artist Raquel Rodrigo, known as Arquicostura, brings the technique of embroidery to an architectural scale. Inspired by the relationship between floral motifs and … Raquel uses the native Echinacea flower—part of the Chicago Botanic Garden’s identity—to design a large-scale composition blending a two-dimensional pattern with three-dimensional … a contemporary language that opens a dialogue among craft, nature, and innovation. This work is both a tribute to botanical beauty and a vision of how traditions can evolve and adapt to the …
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… VeggieRx Produce Prescription VeggieRx is a cooperative produce prescription program developed by the Garden, Lawndale Christian Health … and the University of Illinois-Chicago’s Chicago Partnership for Health Promotion (CPHP) to help patients with diet-related diseases who are also food insecure. Located in Chicago's … Serve as an equity market channel for beginner farmers “VeggieRx is a program that allows us to write prescriptions for food for our patients. In North Lawndale, for instance, the rate of …
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… somewhere for as long as anyone can remember doesn't mean it's a native plant! Important to the ecosystem Native plants are those found in a specific region that began growing there … they often grow so rampantly that they choke out native plants. The unfortunate result is less biodiversity, and an ecosystem that needs to be restored. Urban development also has a … offers different soil and moisture conditions. When using native plants in your garden, the best results occur when plants are matched to the sun and soil conditions it has (or had) in a …
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