… Double Your Donation Did you know you can double your donation to the Chicago Botanic Garden through our matching donation program? Many employers sponsor matching gift programs that match charitable donations made by their employees. Search to find out if your employer has a matching gift program. Type your company name into the search … below to find out if they will match your gift to the Garden. Please email Donor Services for any additional questions about how to double your donation. Matching Gift and Volunteer …
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… pleasure of teaching families with young children at the Chicago Botanic Garden. It is a gift to work in a garden with children because there is so much about gardening that we can use to … you’ve ever spent time with a toddler, you know that young children are active learners. The best teaching occurs when we join that child in hands-on, developmentally appropriate play. A … the joys of working the soil and the pride that comes with growing something. Along the way, we cultivate patience, perseverance, and a sense wonder. Young children have an innate …
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… including heirloom tomatoes and purple potatoes. Amalea and Jason recently won StarChefs.com’s Rising Stars award. Makes 8 servings Ingredients 5 pounds heirloom peppers 3 pounds red … Extra virgin olive oil One eighth pound unsalted butter 1 cup white wine Powdered gelatin Salt to taste Directions Roast both types of peppers and peel. Separate the red peppers for puree and marinate the heirloom peppers in olive oil and salt to taste. Peel and slice the …
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… includes flowering shrubs, small trees and climbers. Shrubs vary in size from dwarf specimens to enormous bushes. The two species native to North America are smooth hydrangea ( H. arborescens … dried blossoms offer winter interest in the landscape. Extreme winter cold can be a challenge for some hydrangeas. Panicle and smooth hydrangeas produce flowers on the current season’s … autumn make it a valuable plant for the home garden. Plants tend to be 4 to 6 feet tall and do best in a shrub border with some shade. H. anomala ssp. petiolaris (Climbing Hydrangea) A …
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… It’s finally starting to feel like spring in Chicago, which means it’s time to get those home gardens up and running. In the Horticultural Therapy Department, we’re in the … at the Chicago Botanic Garden to instruct you on fun and simple gardening basics; just come visit us and ask! Happy gardening! …
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… Do you have hydrangeas at home and want to learn how to care for them? Learn about the most commonly planted hydrangeas in northern Illinois and …
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… Green Fix on a Winter Day View Greenhouse Hours Where do gardeners go to satisfy their plant cravings when the weather outside is less than perfect? Within minutes, a … environment, filled with specialty plants that flourish in these three different climes. For more than 40 years, the Greenhouses have displayed beautiful and fragrant flowering plants, … flashes of floral color and every shade of green seen in the other Greenhouses now give way to blues, grays, silvers, and perhaps a touch of soft yellow. In this environment, hot …
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… Foods and the Chicago Botanic Garden The Chicago Botanic Garden and Kraft Foods partnered to create a three-season, sustainably-grown fruit and vegetable garden at Kraft Foods … garden opened in June 2011, with the expectation of yielding 14,000 pounds of food, equivalent to 28,000 meals. In accordance with the Kraft Foods mission to fight hunger, food grown in the … program. Following the opening of the garden, Windy City Harvest staff taught classes for Kraft employees who volunteer in the garden. Class topics included sustainable gardening, …
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… it functions like a river’s floodplain. Though beautiful, it is above all practical: designed to hold back stormwater runoff, it allows deep-rooted native plants to facilitate absorption and help filter impurities. The native plants in the Rainwater Glen have reduced the need for irrigation by half, and no potable water is used for irrigation. The Rainwater Glen … it functions like a river’s floodplain. Though beautiful, it is above all practical: designed to hold back stormwater runoff, it allows deep-rooted native plants to facilitate absorption and …
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… Gordon Extensive cultivation and hybridization of more than 30 known lilac species have led to 2,000 varieties blooming from as early as the second week of May through mid-June. Syringa … species and the introduction of new varieties became a seemingly endless endeavor. Some of the best hybrids were introduced by Monsieur Victor Lemoine of Nancy, France, in the 1800s. His … primarily in the pink and lavender shades. And it was Father John L. Fiala who was responsible for bringing 78 new cultivars to the public before his death in 1990, including many of the …
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