… the Garden closes every night at 10:30 p.m. See below for all dates and special evenings. Buy your parking in advance and save $7. Advance parking for nonmembers is $18 per vehicle; if purchased upon … 4 p.m. each night of the event. Garden members always park for free. We strongly advise you to buy parking online in advance or to become a Garden member . Nonmembers who purchase advance … the Garden closes every night at 10:30 p.m. See below for all dates and special evenings. Buy your parking in advance and save $7. Advance parking for nonmembers is $18 per vehicle; if …
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… Stoldt, public services manager of the Lenhardt Library, curated the exhibition, Butterflies in Print: Lepidoptera Defined. By far, the highlight was Metamorphosis Insectorum Surinamensium ( Metamorphosis of Surinam Insects ) by Maria Sibylla Merian, published in 1719 in Amsterdam. This volume was on loan from the Owen H. Wangensteen Historical Library of Biology …
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… will we see the luminaries? The luminaries will light up safe, wheelchair-accessible paths in select areas, and take you through the Crescent Garden and Esplanade, around the Farwell … No tripods or monopods, please. What happens if the weather turns bad after we buy tickets? We’ll track any wind or rain closely and will let you know by 3 p.m. the day of … Each timed entry has a limited capacity and we expect this event to sell out. Do I have to buy or reserve parking in advance? Members always park for free and do not need a reservation if …
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… In summer, gardening requires plants with three key qualities: low maintenance (it's hot out … brilliant color—the brighter the better. Zinnias fit the bill on all three counts. And more. In fact, they're one of the best flowers that smart gardeners can put to work in their gardens. Zinnias are planted in nearly every one of our 27 display gardens. One of the …
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… example, was adapted by early Christians from other spring celebrations to symbolize the tomb in which Jesus was buried before his resurrection. As with so many other holidays, however, … have to be an all-or-nothing prospect. Instead, take a few eco-friendly baby steps each year. Buy Easter baskets made out of wood or reeds (Longaberger makes beautiful ones) or engage your … companies also strive to reduce packaging used with their products. These days, you can even buy naturally colored, vegan marshmallow chicks and bunnies in health food stores or online. Get …
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… I just returned from two weeks in Mongolia searching for fossil flowers. Why go halfway around the world to look for fossils of … it doesn’t get any better than this! A little background first. Mongolia is a large country in Central Asia with a population very close in size to the city of Chicago (Mongolia: 2.89 million; Chicago: 2.71 million). But that is where …
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… Garden blog followers may remember that in “ How to Train Your Plant ” I demonstrated a way to grow a bean seed in a plastic bag to test geotropism. I started working on that project around Thanksgiving week … At that time, I started a few bean bags just to see what would happen. I kept one seed growing in the bag all winter, adding water as needed. The bean plant grew for five months, leaning …
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… When my mother first moved from England to Chicago in the late 1950s, she’d never heard of a prairie. In England, a grassland is called a meadow. But every kid in the neighborhood near Chicago’s Midway Airport called the empty, overgrown lots between …
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… oak trees, the three-fingered hand shapes are maple leaves, those little oval leaves marching in a double line along a stem are from an ash—boo yah! OK, now do it without any leaves. And yes, … thought the trick was looking at the tree’s habit—its size and shape. But no—especially not in a natural woodland like this. A tree’s habit depends on where it is growing—how crowded it is … on what is given to it,” he said as we walked into the woods. “You can probably get 100 trees in a row, but it’s like a fingerprint. They all have different spaces, different light; they’re …
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