… can provide the basis for meat, chicken, or vegetable marinades perfect for the grill. With herb vinegars, you can please your palate and ease your meal preparation for months to come. … and garlic or shallots to favorite herb vinegars for a complete salad flavoring. Vinegar made with hot peppers, garlic, and cilantro makes a great marinade for Southwestern-style chicken when combined with a bit of olive oil. Mint, a hint of honey, and cardamom or anise seed in rice vinegar makes …
Type: Plant Info
… Description: Most winters, thanks to volunteer Peter Dogiakos, who fills homemade bird feeders with thistle in the Enabling Garden, Garden visitors can get close views of a northern bird … as they sit in trees or fly to spruce cones and feeders to dine. Pine siskins often hang out with American goldfinches, which are similar in shape and size. The siskins, however, have … lean winter, the siskins fly south looking for food. They readily come to feeders filled with thistle seed. Siskins were particularly numerous in northern Illinois during the winter …
Type: Birding
… a window box offers a chance to create plant combinations that wow in sun or shade. Filled with flowers or colorful foliage, they add character and cottage charm whether underneath a … horticulturist, shares her expert tips for planting window boxes that are visually stunning with familiar plants and flowers as the show stoppers. For the sun window box , she planted ivy … for a white box. A lighter weight decorative stone-type box would enhance a Chicago bungalow with its cement trim. Drainage holes are a must for any window box. Choose your plants. Consider …
Type: Blog
… throughout the Mediterranean area (and in some Chicago gardens as well) are not to be confused with the hybridized cultivars we find in retail shops. In the late 1800s, plant breeders in … began to cultivate the cyclamen parent, Cyclamen persicum , expressly for indoor use. Plants with the largest flowers, mostly pinks and purples, were crossbred. Advanced breeding today has … frilled, folded, crested, doubled, and often fragrant. Foliage is an attractive mound, often with silver tracery on top and burgundy beneath. To grow a cyclamen to its fullest potential, …
Type: Plant Info
… and Ada L. Rice Plant Conservation Science Center provides Chicago Botanic Garden scientists with more tools to address the environmental challenges we face today and train those who assume … individuals, corporations, and foundations have generously supported the Science Initiative with gifts of $1,000 or more through February 28, 2011. Leadership Commitments $5,000,000 and … and Ada L. Rice Plant Conservation Science Center provides Chicago Botanic Garden scientists with more tools to address the environmental challenges we face today and train those who assume …
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… in summer. But that’s no problem for several indoor plants that can spotlight a drab corner with intriguing sword-like foliage or variegated leaves. I’m talking about some old-fashioned … years before repotting. Growth is quite slow in low-light situations, but plants perform well with minimal care. They tolerate being root-bound and can withstand dry conditions. The leaves … its common name is ZZ plant, this beauty is no snoozer. Plants grow 2 to 4 feet tall and wide with arching stems of super shiny leaves. Don’t be tempted to baby this performer by overwatering …
Type: Plant Info
… Defining your garden with structure How can we make our gardens more inviting in 2025? How about creating a little journey with doorways, halls and outdoor rooms? Even the smallest garden can benefit from thinking inside … materials. The top may be flat or arched. The structure can be contemporary, formal or rustic with cross beams in a variety of patterns. Arbors—with or without a gate—are useful in tight …
Type: Plant Info
… Garden ? Winter Landscape Beauty Against the snowy slopes, tall conifers loom large, with their sweeping, pendulous branch tips weighted down, sometimes to the ground, with puffs of snow. Their dwarf counterparts remain half-buried in mounds of white, some sporting … Garden to the Malott Japanese Garden encompass a broad expanse of white land and white water, with no indication of where one form ends and the other begins. Framing it all, on the distant …
Type: Walks
… feeding on the lawn. It is similar in appearance to the white snow goose but slightly smaller with a shorter bill. …
Type: Birding
… This vine grows to a height of about 20 feet with full sun to partial shade and moderate moisture conditions. It has green blooms that attract …
Type: Garden Guide Plant
