… Description: The junco is a very common migrant and winter resident. It can be found in most habitats at the Garden. Those of us who live in northerly climes refer to our family and friends who head south for the winter as snowbirds. A different kind of snowbird comes to … It's the dark-eyed junco, a chatty, active bird that brightens the woods, shrubby areas, and conifers at the Garden and in northern Illinois backyards. The junco is about the size of a …
Type: Birding
… is a hybrid developed in the Netherlands in 1980. Its white flowers are more abundant and slightly larger than the species while its overall stature is somewhat smaller. Abundant spring flowers lead to abundant summer berries. The foliage emerges bronzy and becomes deep green in summer and turns purple/red in the fall. Members of the genus Amelanchier offer four seasons of interest …
Type: Garden Guide Plant
… by the University of Minnesota Agricultural Experiment Station for its cold hardiness and released for cultivation in 1991. It is a popular eating apple described as sweet, tart, and crisp and noted for its good shelf life. The difference between apples and crabapples is the size of …
Type: Garden Guide Plant
… Rockspray cotoneaster is a low and slow growing shrub with a fishbone branching pattern that can become tiered over time. Its glossy green foliage, habit, and adaptability make it a versatile small shrub selection. Small white flowers tinged in pink in … are characterized by a stiff, dense branching structure, small, glossy leaves of fine texture, and abundant fruit in the form of small pomes, which are generally in shades of red/orange but …
Type: Garden Guide Plant
… hardy shrub that blooms from late May through early June. Plant the shrub in full sun and average soil, and provide supplemental water during the establishment period and throughout extensive droughts. Members of the genus Syringa , commonly known as lilacs, are …
Type: Garden Guide Plant
… the premier performance project from Manchester, U.K.-based scientist Sam Illingworth, Ph.D., and poet Dan Simpson . Biology and plant science meet balladry, as five Chicago Botanic Garden scientists are paired with incredible spoken-word artists from Young Chicago Authors and RHINO to collaborate on a new performance, celebrating the creative similarities between …
Type: Item Detail
… Painting in the Garden, students will gain inspiration and learn to translate the beauty surrounding them from their own perspective. This course will provide class demonstrations and personalized instruction while students individually compose and complete a painting during each class session. Working directly from nature, students will …
Type: Item Detail
… I study how plant traits vary by populations and factor up to interactions that may influence whether species can coexist together in the long term. This is critical for understanding how the plants and their traits that we choose for restoration may hinder or promote restoration goals. I have an interest in root traits and I largely use restoration-targeted species in empirical research and use a broad set of …
Type: Staff bio
… leads Chicago’s most energetic band that rocks for kids—at the zoo, at museums, at nightclubs (and dayclubs), and anywhere else that the preK crowd and early graders like to dance, laugh, and rock out! The songs are clever originals augmented by …
Type: Event for Calendar
… 'Chocoholic' bugbane is prized first and foremost for deep burgundy color of its foliage. Then, come mid-summer, that foliage becomes … in a woodland setting or at the back of shady border, they provide a strong vertical accent, and lasting bloom in high summer. There are over 25 different species of bugbane or Actaea , spanning Europe, Asia, and North America. They're generally woodland plants, happiest in dappled shade and cool, …
Type: Garden Guide Plant
