… Custom Professional Development Workshops We invite you to increase your understanding of plants and nature, build your repertoire of teaching … offers a variety of standards-based professional development workshops scheduled specifically for your group. Perfect for teacher institute days, curriculum meetings, or professional … opportunities for nature and science explorations, helping students make stronger connections to their surroundings. Through nature walks, journaling, experiments, and investigations, learn …
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… impacted by a biocontrol weevil. I am also interested in developing measures of success and best practices for ex situ plant conservation programs, from collecting genetically diverse seed accessions to minimizing genetic change during storage and increasing likelihood of success of restorations. …
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… welcome Snowflake Fairy, on your terrace give her room. She alone in February braves the cold to shed her bloom. —Elizabeth Gordon What can give us more hope that the end of winter is near … flower segments; the three larger outer segments are unmarked. Woodland settings are ideal for snowdrops, and they will return year after year if given winter low temperatures that reach … years and will multiply by themselves; however, they also can be propagated by division. The best time to move or divide snowdrops is when they have just finished flowering. Lift the bulbs …
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… Tom Soulsby is the senior horticulturist for the Rose Garden, Heritage Garden, and Linden Allée. He is responsible for curating and … his passion for horticulture excellence. As a lifelong gardener, some of Soulsby's best horticulture education has come from practical hands-on gardening that included working as a child alongside his dad. His love of gardening carries over to his own home. Before pursuing his passion for public horticulture, Soulsby was a director at …
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… Building the Future It was worth the wait! We've been busy making improvements for our one million-plus annual visitors, and it's time to welcome you through our new "front door" at the Chicago Botanic Garden. Picnic Glade Welcome … Plaza in front of the Visitor Center this spring. It's a visitor-friendly place for you to meet up with family and friends and use the staffed ticketing kiosks. You can also stop by …
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… Growing tomatoes in containers Got bad soil? Buckets, troughs, and pots all work well for growing tomatoes, too. Small space, poor soil? Container gardening may be the answer. If … a bumper crop of red, juicy orbs this summer. Tomatoes are warm-loving plants that need six to eight hours of sunlight. If you have a spot like that on a balcony, deck, patio, a side yard or along a fence or wall, you’re good to grow. And, if you have the luxury of a big garden, pop a few pots of tomatoes into a sunny …
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… Corps Program at Work Burrell Robinson WCH Corps, 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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… or "floating ink," the process of marbling plain paper or a textile with water and ink to transform it into something vibrant and colorful with patterns and waves. It reflects the … in imperfection and the transient nature of life. I chose a circular version of this style for my annual design. Plants used: Some selections will have names that mention water, like … repetition in their growth habit, or on their foliage. In the beds, plant heights will vary to create a wavy effect while being planted in the loose, concentric circular style. Larger …
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… Bringing a bit of your garden indoors to join a celebration can be as easy as cutting a few evergreen branches for a vase. But if you are a little bit more ambitious about your holiday decor, it's … if you do this in summer, you may be able to use flowers from your own cutting garden. The best flowers to use are full and mounded, such as carnations, cushion mums, and roses — "anything …
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… As spring wakes up our prairies, tiny regal fritillary caterpillars begin an urgent search for young violet leaves—the only food they eat. Regal fritillary butterflies once lived in a … of prairie surrounded by pavement and farmland. Their future largely depends on our ability to restore the prairies they evolved with—but in countless prairie restorations, the violets are … and how all these factors influence genetic diversity—things get complicated. “As we developed best practices for reintroducing violets, we started thinking about all these missing species and …
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